Now wait a dang minute!
Fruit cake is an age old Christmas tradition. You mean to tell me you don’t celebrate the fruit cake by offering up big slabs of it to your guests?
Yet…
Somebody is producing them.
Claxton, Georgia brags about being Fruit Cake Capitol Of The World,
and has proudly burned it into their water tower.
Corsicana, Texas begs to differ. They believe they are the capitol of fruit cakes.
Somebody is buying them. Could more be shipped to other parts of the world where people love the dense cakes?
Somebody is baking them.
Grandmothers are noted as being lovers of fruit cake, and may still be firing up the oven in hopes of enticing their families with a gift-wrapped loaf.
I also read someplace that Kentucky Trappist monks take a fancy to baking fruit cakes.
Theirs however, are laced with bourbon.
And somebody is eating them.
Could that be you???
So…why the jokes?
One late night comedian joked that there is really only one fruit cake in the entire world, which people re-gift over and over.
Why do people’s eyes wrinkle and squeeze shut upon the very mention of fruit cake?
Is it the nuts, the citron colored fruit, the sometimes dry, and heavy taste of fruit cake?
I can’t figure it out either. I was raised on fruit cake.
Maybe I’m nuttier than I thought.
But I actually like fruit cake!
Manitou Springs, Colorado has a yearly Great Fruitcake Toss. They literally strap the maligned cake to an apparatus, and fling it as far as they can for a trophy.
If I were a fruit cake, this practice would hurt my feelings.
After all, being a fruit cake isn’t as popular as it once was.
Or is it?
What are your thoughts about fruit cake?
Do you love it?
Hate it?
-OR-
Never think about fruit cake
one way or the other?
Leave me a comment!!!
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I make some gorgeous fruit cakes each year and I know people eat them because they ask me to make them…mine are a bit different than the average buy in a store cakes though. I have a chocolate cherry fruitcake, a banana split fruit cake…..several tropical fruit cakes……I use all fresh fruits and candy them myself first. and I never, ever use citron (that horror of a pretend fruit) as citrus rinds taste…well…nasty actually.
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Oh yummy. Your fruitcakes do sound gorgeous Suze. Plus, I now know what the ‘pretend fruit’ is, citron. Some may think it tastes like fake icing on a cake. Just horrible!!!
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Ah the fruit cake, a staple around Christmas time and always reminds me of my grandmother. Thanks for this, and for the record, I actually do like fruitcake. Happy holidays!!!
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I like it too, especially laced with rum, and real fruit. One piece, and I’m good to go caroling for sure. Happy Everyday Ash!
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Lol, oh right, don’t forget the rum. Thank you 😉
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Sparky Jen, no one I personally know likes fruit cake!!! 😂 As a matter of fact we Jamaicans hate it so much that we reinvented the wheel and created rum cake, also known as black cake to enjoy at Christmas time. To the fruit cake on the couch, nobody likes you for real! LOL! Would love to participate in that toss!
Thanks for the good chuckle Jen. Merry Christmas. 🙂
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LOL. I also love the black cake. I wish I could get on a list to purchase one every year at Xmas time. I think you have to order a year in advance. The rum has to soak in I guess. Drunken deliciousness. Happy Holidays!
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I do not -but my dad loves the Claxton-and I haave him one this year, again! For me, I think it is the many textures in a fruitcake. But I wish those guys had not used one as a toy-I am so sensitive, to food being wasted-even a fruitcake! haha!
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I with you Michele. Waste Not, Want Not!
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I wasn’t raised on fruitcake. And when I did have the opportunity to taste it- I’d have to say I’ll pass when someone offers me one the next time. 🙃
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I suppose it is an acquired taste. With so many other cakes on offer, I suspect many people pass on the less-than-delectable fruitcake. Or use them like you can with duct tape, for many other things. LOL!
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I’m torn, I’ve never had one I liked but I still believe there’s one out there that I might. As a traditional guy, I like them for the memories of better days they bring
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I’m not going to suggest you run out and buy a fruitcake, but I would suggest you find similar prompts that help you remember the ‘better days.’ Peace Be Still.
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that’s all that I do lately
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Sparky Jen, my Mama loved fruitcake, so I ordered them from Trappist Monasteries like Holy Spirit Monastery in Atlanta, GA (& delectable fudge from Gethsemane Monastery in Louisville, KY.) Before those fruitcakes, I wasn’t a fan – but they were really tasty (must be those Spirited ingredients used by the monks!) Mama has passed, but we still get fruitcakes & remember her with a piece (or 2 or 3!) Holiday hugs! ✨🎂✨🌟✨🎂✨
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All hail spirited remembrances. Holidays hugs coming your way too!🍾
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Love it but now have to resist the temptation.. (well most of the time.. )
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Don’t punish yourself by having none, just put what you do decide to have on a very small plate. Happy Christmas!
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Well…alrighty then! I’m glad you got something from it. But, I’m curious, do you like fruit cake? Serve fruitcake?
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