Tis' the season for Fruit Cake.

What say you? Do you eat it or do you avoid it.

Do you love getting a Fruit Cake as a gift or if you get one do you think of ways to get even with the gift giver?

I really like them but would never admit it.

And would only eat one bought fresh from a store. You never know how many times they have been regifted.

It's about time some one started this thread.

Thanks ddandb.

Thought it was a Barney Frank thread.

Sorry.

Return to forum.

LOL, they make good doorstops or weights to hold stuff down, and are downright not fit for human

consumption.

Maybe Andytv can eat them.....................

Charlie

The year 1971. My brother and I were cleaning out a closet at our grandmother's house about 3 months after she passed away my dad was selling grandma's house.

We found a Claxton fruitcake still in it's original box and wrapped in cellophane. We could only venture to guess how old it was. We asked my dad and he said he thought it was from around 1950. He remembers because he left home in 1955 to marry my mother.

She had some old chit in that closet. There were dresses from the 30's in there and an old Royal vaccuum. We tossed it all including the fruitcake.

Doorstops.

LOVE fruitcake, esp w/ rum in it!

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Author: ddandb Date: 12/18/2008 02:19 PM

Tis' the season for Fruit Cake. What say you?

Do you eat it or do you avoid it.

Do you love getting a Fruit Cake as a gift

or if you get one do you think of ways to

get even with the gift giver?

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Yes ...

As JHC said, if they're fresh, they're good ... if not, Charley's suggestion is a good one ... and anyone who gives you one that's been caught in a regifting cycle for years is someone you will want to consider as the perfect recipient for those unsmokeable cigars you've been gifted but won't smoke ...

Damn Herf. It is hard to come by a good , well aged fruit cake. Especially preembargo.

Had I only known....

^ yes...fruitcakes are becoming collectible. One from the 50's could be worth several hundred dollars..

I like them. Oddly enough, even though so many people joke about them, you'd think stores that carry them would be desperate to unload them. However, every year I catch myself looking at some in a display and thinking they were awfully expensive.

^ Bout time this thread lives up to its name!!!

=P

:People here don't like MACS?

There are enough fruit cakes around here year around. It doesn't have to be holiday fare only.

Another thread`about TW ...

Avoid 'em, I stick with Little Debbie!

I am surprised they haven't started putting gummy bears and gummy worms in them......that candied crap that they put in those things is like glue.....

I have not eaten one in so many years, they have substituted some of the stuff....my Aunt used to put Jack Daniels in her fruit cake, it was still as bad as the ones you get sent from "friends"

Charlie

I like Fruit Cake. Use the recipe that comes on the bottle of Nonesuch brand mincemeat. Wrap it in cheesecloth after it's cooled off and then soak it in bourbon or rum for at least a few days, a couple of weeks soaking is even better. We have a large fruit cake in the fridge soaking right now. Can't wait for the 1st slice tonight.