Hah! Seems that the security checkpoints on the Canadian side of the US-Canada border are having a bit of trouble with the onslaught of holiday fruit cakes that are being shuttled by humans and via shipping services this year. The complaint is that the fruit cakes are too dense to be properly inspected by X-rays alone and that they are having to search these particular packages by hand. Either there’s some truth to this story – I saw it on a TV news report giving it a 50% shot of accuracy – or the Canucks have a oddly large sweet tooth for fruit cakes and want to raid the packages. I’m going with the X-ray problem… it’s more logical than wanting to eat fruit cake.