I like fruitcake.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

Good fruitcake. Call me weird. :9

[Bronco69]

1. I like it too

if I put some Cool Whip on it. :-)

[Intelsucks]

2. I heard there's only one fruitcake in the world

and people just keep giving it away to someone else every holiday season.:) If you actually eat it, the tradition will be destroyed.

[mitchum]

20. Coined by Calvin Trillin, but I forgive him

He's too good a humorist to hold a mother-in-law/airline food level quip against him :) Fruitcake is great!

[Paradise]

3. i love fruitcake,

and i am weird :silly:

[madrchsod]

4. you need help!!!!!

just kidding

[frogbison]

8. mmmm

homemade fruitcake! I used to have a relative who would make it every holiday season, but the well dried up and i haven't had any in years.

Is there a good commercial source of the real stuff?

edited for spelling....

[lcooksey]

13. Check this other fruitcake thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=398452

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. That's the one that inspired this one...

I hope it doesn't seem like a cheap imitation thread........ :eyes:

[lcooksey]

22. LOL! (nt)

[morningglory]

16. Fruitcake is the easiest thing in the world to make, but the good ingred

ients are expensive. The oldsters used to crack pecans for a month in order to do the Thanksgiving and Christmas sweets. Now, just buy a couple of pounds of very fresh crop pecans when they are picked in the Fall, and pm me and I will send you Aunt Myrtle's recipe which is a big swoon. I even put dates, apricots, raisins and currants in instead of the dried up citronella and garish cherries. Put a few cherries just for color. The oldsters didn't like to make fruitcake because of the effort of nut-cracking and expensive fruit. Put about 7 dollars into ingredients and you will have a wonderful snack.

[everythingsxen]

5. People who like fruitcakes - are what they eat

:P

[Sentath]

6. I like expensive fruitcake

I have a recipe that can run me $50 for 2 loaves.

OTOH Mom likes cheap fruitcake, but only a little tiny serving.

:shrug:

{rlg}

[Deja Q]

7. You'll love me then, here's my phone number!

867-5309.

My cell phone # is 606-0842.

:evilgrin: I'm the king of weird! :D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. That's funny...

There was an old song titled "867-5309". Isn't that a coincidence?! :silly:

[Deja Q]

14. Ditto for 606-0842!

:silly:

The 867-5309 is a bit better though, and I suspect Tommy T had listened to 606-0842 and came up with 867-5309 because of it...

:D

[Jade Fox]

9. Love the homemade kind soused in a lot of brandy....n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. There was a Truman Capote story

about a boy who lived with his wild and crazy aunt who was famous for her brandy-doused fruitcakes. I often think of that story around the holidays...over a nice slice of fruitcake, of course. :-)

[RoadRunner]

12. I just put two of 'em on my Ignore list today

felt good, too. Poof - they're gone!

[populistmom]

17. I love fruitcakes

:crazy:

[mitchum]

18. I could eat it year round

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

19. You and me both!

My MOM bakes the BEST fruitcakes and I freeze them and store them...then I cut slices and thaw them as I want to have it....fruitcake all year long! :thumbsup:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. mmmmmmmm! Great idea!

From all the recipes I've seen here, I think I'm going to have to make one from scratch next year!