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Susan W. - Oct 28, 2005 7:28:57 am PDT #9545 of 10002

Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I wonder if you can make fruitcake without the fruit. Probably it would just be called "cake." With some nice confectioner's sugar or glaze on top, there's a chance I would eat it.

Nutty speaks for me. In general, I'm not a fan of dried fruit, nor anything made with it, and while I enjoy fresh fruit and many fruit-based desserts (peach ice cream, blackberry pie, etc.), with infinite desserts to choose from I go for the chocolate and/or nut-based.

§ ita § - Oct 28, 2005 7:31:12 am PDT #9546 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What's left when you take the fruit out? A mildly spiced cake?

TomW - Oct 28, 2005 7:31:32 am PDT #9547 of 10002

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

Fruitcake without the fruit wouldn't be a million miles from Peperkoek. Although, drier. They sometimes have it at Whole Foods, or Trader Joe's, when 'tis the season.

Generic, store-bought fruitcake is, I suspect, the root cause of America's distrust of the fruitcake. There are some things that cannot be mass-produced. Some things that should never be made "Shelf-Stable". Until they install brandy spritzers in every grocery store in the country, fruit cake is one of those things.

Gudanov - Oct 28, 2005 7:33:00 am PDT #9548 of 10002

Coding and Sleeping

What's with all the fruitcake talk? I don't think Bush is going to go with Brown.

Connie Neil - Oct 28, 2005 7:36:41 am PDT #9549 of 10002

brillig

My husband's grandfather's fruitcake was so liquor-y that he stored it in mason jars. That fruitcake was very popular.

TomW - Oct 28, 2005 7:38:12 am PDT #9550 of 10002

What's with all the fruitcake talk?

I don't know, waiting for indictments feels all Christmassy.

Nutty - Oct 28, 2005 7:40:03 am PDT #9551 of 10002

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Suddenly I am flashing back to the best dessert I ever had, which was a chocolate steamed cake, very rich and hot, with caramel drizzled on top. Want.

I don't have an objection to fruits in dessert, but neon cubes are not fruits.

Trudy Booth - Oct 28, 2005 7:41:42 am PDT #9552 of 10002

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

neon cubes are not fruits

they're the club kids of fruits

Scrappy - Oct 28, 2005 7:42:17 am PDT #9553 of 10002

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I am a freak who dislikes the taste of alcohol, so any brandy, rum or liqueur soaked desserts give me the screaming willies.

Kalshane - Oct 28, 2005 7:42:46 am PDT #9554 of 10002

GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

My grandfather makes a fruitcake every year and I always eat a piece, but it's more out of politeness than actually enjoying it.

ION, the cafeteria had salmon (one of the only seafoods I actually like) with lemon butter as well as fried mushrooms on the menu today. I am enjoying them both muchly.

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