Fruitcake has a notorious reputation. It's the butt of more than one holiday joke, including pranks of the practical kind. But love it or hate it, you can't argue that fruitcake has a habit of sticking around ... and I'm not talking about inside your gut.

At 97 years old, Pierre Girard's fruitcake doesn't look half bad. Ok, so it looks pretty bad, but for being a baked good that's lived longer than most humans, it's in pretty good shape. A couple of Pierre's friends found the fruitcake in a closet during an estate sale with a note that said it had been baked in 1911 by a man named Alex.

Maybe Pierre's cake will become a family heirloom, passed through the generations so that someday, 100 years from now, his great-great-great-great grandchildren can hold it up and say ... "WTH was Pop-Pop thinking?"

Would you hold on to this thing if you found it?