What's left when you take the fruit out? A mildly spiced cake?
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Natter 39 and Holding
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2005 7:31:12 am PDT #9546 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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
"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."
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.
Gudanov - Oct 28, 2005 7:42:51 am PDT #9555 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
neon cubes are not fruits
This is exactly why we need more funding for genetically engineered food research.