I blame the kind of "fruitcake" made by Claxton Fruit Cake [link] for most of fruit cake's bad reputation. It's bad quality candied fruit smushed together into a horrifying sticky block. I've been to Claxton, Ga., and the sign when you enter the town says: "Welcome to Claxton, the Fruit Cake Capital of the World"
She growls?! You made her so she growls?!
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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.
Ginger - Jan 02, 2006 4:24:40 pm PST #6837 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Trudy Booth - Jan 02, 2006 4:24:49 pm PST #6838 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
Its in a freezer, you pull it out a year later, you scrape off the freezerburn and take a bite, you giggle, you throw the thing away.
You don't re-ice the thing and serve it to guests.
The Gerrys aren't a problem these days either, you know that, right?
Jesse - Jan 02, 2006 4:25:01 pm PST #6839 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ION, I just realized why I've thought it must be bedtime for hours already: Watching several hours of Law & Order when it's already dark out.
sarameg - Jan 02, 2006 4:27:37 pm PST #6840 of 10002
Christmas Cake! You people don't have Christmas Cake?
Honey, my traditional ideal Xmas involves biscocho (a dry crumbly mexican anise cookie,) peperkokr ( a thin swedish spice cookie,) luminarias (votives in paper bags around the sidewalks,) quiche on Xmas Eve, spanish chorals, swedish braided sweet bread, tamales and the seasonal sweet tamales (raisins, cinnamon, pecans and UMMMM, so freaking good.) I'm a USian, but a southwestern USian of midwestern descent. Fruitcake is an import!
Trudy Booth - Jan 02, 2006 4:29:29 pm PST #6841 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
Swedish braided bread! We do that too!
Oh, everyone should know: the fruitcake from Anne was heaaaaaaavenly. I want to marry her now if my Mother doesn't get her first. I have a little bit left and I'll have it tomorrow night with coffee.
Jesse - Jan 02, 2006 4:31:10 pm PST #6842 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In other ridiculous news, this afternoon I ate a Ring Pop with a light inside (from my stocking), and the damn thing is STILL BLINKING! I'm going to have to wrap it in a bag and hide it in the bottom of the trash.
sarameg - Jan 02, 2006 4:31:54 pm PST #6843 of 10002
Half of my grandparents were immigrant from sweden in the early part of the century. We've kept up some things. Not lutefisk, though.
§ ita § - Jan 02, 2006 4:32:16 pm PST #6844 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The idea of keeping a cake that's not going to taste good in a year confounds me.
With the Commonwealth tradition, you might even end up with an improvement on what started out pretty tasty. But I'm sure there's some explanation for what that's silly too.
Trudy Booth - Jan 02, 2006 4:34:17 pm PST #6845 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
My guess is that the top-tier-first-anniversary-cake was once the same liquor-sodden-fruit as the christening cake.
Jesse - Jan 02, 2006 4:34:34 pm PST #6846 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think a frozen cake would taste just fine. But then, I freeze everything, and have room-temperature food storage Issues.