I will eat fruit cake and would someday like to try an expensive high quality one.
The C-ration fruit cakes weren’t really fruit cake as you know it which is why everyone threw them away, but I needed them for the calories.
They’re very easy to make. The fruit is expensive, but often you can get it half-price right after Christmas.
When we’ve made it, we sliced it up and vacuum-packed slices for the freezer, so we have it all year.
(Ready-made fruitcakes can be very hit-or-miss; the last one I bought seemed rancid.)