[dogbyte12]

Pro or anti fruitcake? Happy Holidays

[SamAdams76]

Cajun fruitcake bump...

[John Jamieson]

CORSICANA (TEXAS) FRUIT CAKE - Baked by Collin Street Bakery since 1896 and marketed under the name "Deluxe," the cake is possibly the world's most famous; shipped each year to every state in the nation and more than 290 foreign lands. Only fruit cake granted the rare Gourmet Society (New York) Culinary Merit Award. Sold only by mail or at the bakery, 401 West 7th Street.

10 cent coffee and free samples when you visit!

[pttttt]

Confirming the Japanese admiration for fruitcake, the department store Takashimaya offers it year-round.

Wow... talk about different strokes...

[New Horizon]

Fruitcake sucks.

Merry Christmas.

[IslandJeff]

Too Funny BUMP! I knew there was a reason to read the VV...
[please put me in the "anti" camp. I haven't touched one in twenty years, but seeing the pictures just conjures up that smell of childhood horror]

Merry Christmas!

[Consort]

The truth came out years ago. Only one fruitcake was ever made and the same one gets passed from family to family across the generations.

[speedy]

Haven't had it in many years, but put me down as pro-fruitcake. Although I would like to know what the green fruit in there is. Wash it all down with Cream Soda. Yum.

[Illbay]

I've always been anti-fruitcake...until I was forced by a sister to taste one that she had ordered from one of those chi-chi bakery outfits. I had to admit, it was actually pretty good.

[dtel]

We've got a fruitcake we received in 1993, we are now using it as a chock for the horse trailer wheels. Damn thing been all over the country.
Put me down as pro, if you want to build with them.
If you are actually proposing eating these things, put me down as anti.

[PJ-Comix]

It turns out alcohol-bearing versions are inherently superior, since the booze neutralizes the cloying sweetness.

You said it! I love rum cake!

Stunningly, nearly all are made by monks. It's hard to believe that men of God are busily undermining the sobriety of the populace (including children) by pouring the hard stuff over Christmas cakes.

What's the big surprise here? Monks also make wine. This hangup with liquor is more a Protestant than Catholic thing (although oddly enough Southern Baptists are probably the heaviest drinkers in the country).

[null and void]

Manitou Springs ping...

[MadIvan]

A thread about fruitcake and no one has yet mentioned Al Gore. Oh well, forgiveness is in the air I suppose. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[Revolting cat!]

A Short History of Fruitcake

Haven't we had enough posts on gayness? What's next, a history of nuts?

[Free State Four]

Oh, you guys are just being elitist anti-fruitcake snobs. I LOVE fruitcake. The thicker, chewier and fruitier and more full of nuts the better.

One of the best "Christmas" movies around is the adaptation of Truman Capote's "Thanksgiving Memory". (I'm pretty sure that is the title of the short story and I think it is the title of the movie.) It is a wonderful story of the young Truman and his crazy-as-a-loon-Auntie (played, I think, by Geraldine Page) who make fruitcakes and send them to different people that have impressed them during the past year.

The trip to HA HA Johnson's to buy the whiskey to make the cakes is priceless!

[discostu]

I'm well known in my circle for being a sweets junkie. Sugar, corn syrup, candy, chocolates, if it'll make you fat I'll take two. All that being said fruitcake is one of the most disgusting things on the planet and second only to carolers for annoying holiday traditions, if I were king making fruitcake would be considered high treason.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I don't like cake in my fruitcake. I like the really dense kind with the big square green things in it.

I gotta sweet tooth...can ya tell?

[Husker24]

I dont believe the defence establishment has come up with a bunker buster that can blast through a 1 foot wall of fruit cake yet.

[boris]

I love fruitcake. Alas, I am not "supposed" to eat it due to diabetes.

Sigh.

[Willie Green]

Geologists have long recognized that fruitcake is an igneous rock, similar to granite.

[doug from upland]

I thought this was a thread about William Rivers Pitt.