Monks hope consumer cutbacks don’t include fruitcake

RNS ^ | December 3, 2008 | Adelle Banks

[ArrogantBustard]

Switch to rumcake and I’m in!

The Abbey of the Genessee may well have what you're looking for. One of their products is a Rum pound cake.

[WOBBLY BOB]

plenty in the Senate.

[colinhester]

I love Claxton Fruitcake. My parents took me to the factory when I was a kid - hooked ever since.....C

[MrB]

I’ve heard that theory -

there’s really only one fruitcake in the entire world,
and people just keep passing it around as a “gift”.

[Red Badger]

I don’t know. I pick them out and throw them away............

[Carpe Cerevisi]

There’s a Trappist monastery 15 minutes from my home. A couple of years ago the PETA freaks did an “undercover sting” concerning the monks treatment of the chickens that the monks raise for eggs. The monastery decided not to defend themselves and stopped with the egg production.

Now they’re going to produce...mushrooms. Blech!

[Mad Dawg]

Poor monks, they just don't get it. It's not that we don't want fruitcake. It's that in the coming administration we're going to have more fruitcakes than we can possibly handle.

Thanks for the addresses. I LOVE a good fruitcake. I mean, uh, not the kind you elect or see in a pride parade.

[GonzoII]

“undercover sting”

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LOL!!

[E. Cartman]

Does anyone still eat that stuff?

As a child fruitcake was the only bad memory I have of Christmas. I thought they would have quarantined the stuff as a bio-terrorist threat.

[OSHA]

Six are in Belgium and one in Holland.

I have sampled the ones in Holland. Quite good.

[Conan the Librarian]

That is the ONLY fruitcake brand in the Universe that is worth eating.

My sister thinks that the ‘Georgia Fruitcake’ brand is better, but, she has been known to be wrong. Georgia Fruitcakes are also baked in Claxton.

Claxton IS the fruitcake capitol of the World.

[Conan the Librarian]

They are quite easy to find if you live down here in the south.

I see them in gas stations even.

try the website http://www.claxtonfruitcake.com/index.php

[Red Badger]

Claxton IS the fruitcake capitol of the World.

And here I thought it was San Fransicko..............

[Notwithstanding]

More to the point:

Consumers hope monks don’t include fruitcakes.

[Red Badger]

I’ve been there........Claxton, GA that is.....

[Red Badger]

I been there.........

[chilepepper]

I used to think Claxton was the best as well, but it seems they have gone *seriously* downhill taste wise.

Look at the ingredients on Claxton fruitcakes sometime. Typical synthetic cost cutting stuff. Where's the real butter? Real sugar? I'll stay away, thank you...

The best are still made by the Trappists, particularly one I tried that was made in -- Texas.

Anyone know the one I'm taking about?

Anyway, as a kid I *hated* fruitcake, now I pine for it 11 months out of the year (but by family honored tradition can't indulge ;)

[texmexis best]

I love fruitcake too. My wife refuses to have one in the house. I am going to smuggle one in this year and hide it underneath the paint cans in the garage.

I going to go rogue this Christmas!

[derllak]

Ha! And all this time, I thought it was San Francisco...:)