Georgia Town Boasts About Its Fruitcake Bakery

If you have fruitcake this holiday season there's a good chance it will come from Claxton, Georgia. The tiny town's water tower proclaims it  the "Fruitcake Capital of the World" – and across the street is the Claxton Bakery.

“We take a lot of pride in that nickname,” said Dale Parker, whose father bought this bakery from its founder in 1945.

The Claxton bakery churns out close to 90,000 one-pound fruitcakes a day during the pre-holiday rush.  That’s about four million every year. And it sells. Glenn Thomas is with Civitan International, which raises money for charities by stocking grocery stores with Claxton fruitcake.

“Trust me,” Thomas said, “if some of the supermarkets do not have it in their stores by Thanksgiving, they will get questioned about it.”

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