Nobody likes fruitcake - funny Xmas memories

Hereby convening the weekly Monday night meeting of FFA (Fruitcake Fans Anonymous). "Hi, I'm Jujube and I like fruitcake" "Hi, Jujube!"

Granted, there aren't many of us at the meeting and we're not actually trying to stop liking fruitcake.

I made fruitcakes using my grandma's recipe for years and would still be doing it if:
#1. Anybody actually ate fruitcake any more (except for me).
#2 I could afford to make them.
#3 My body could stand the labor (making fruitcakes is not for the faint of heart or weak of body).
 

My happy fruitcake memory is about lots of dark dark moist fruitcake and delicious munchies after skiing in B.C. one Christmas holiday. A friend's family owned a ski resort and we were given party room full of beautiful delicacies arrayed on tables for our entertainment. A good time was had by all.
 
jujube said:
Hereby convening the weekly Monday night meeting of FFA (Fruitcake Fans Anonymous). "Hi, I'm Jujube and I like fruitcake" "Hi, Jujube!"

Granted, there aren't many of us at the meeting and we're not actually trying to stop liking fruitcake.

I made fruitcakes using my grandma's recipe for years and would still be doing it if:
#1. Anybody actually ate fruitcake any more (except for me).
#2 I could afford to make them.
#3 My body could stand the labor (making fruitcakes is not for the faint of heart or weak of body).
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AprilT said:
I might like it too if they took that out, even better puree all the fruit. :D
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The Australian Christmas cake is a highly prized fruitcake--for sale everywhere right now.
Agree with you about the candied fruit, AprilT, would be more digestible for some of us if pureed.
I really prefer the marzipan Stollen with as few raisins as possible.
 
Josiah said:
My mother use to buy the A&P brand fruit cake every Christmas. It was so so good. Maybe SifuPhil has the same memories.
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I certainly do!

Our A&P was a 10 minute drive from our house, and about a week before Christmas when Mom and Dad called to me "Phil, c'mon, we're going for the fruitcake!" I'd be in the back seat in a flash, my head hanging out the window like some demented Terrier, my tongue hanging out and my nose sniffing the air.

Yes, they were THAT good! *sigh*
 
The secret to a tasty and moist fruitcake is to bake it a few weeks before Christmas, once cool pour a generous glass of rum over it, wrap in muslin and place in an airtight cake tin and leave in a cool, dark place. That is from my grandmother's recipes and her fruitcakes were legendary.
 
Oh no, does that mean all my fruitcake/Xmas pudding recipes are subject to recall under national security regulations? Please, someone grant me asylum! Help me....I am a fruitcake refugee (in more ways than one!)
 
Wow ... "fruitcake refugee" ... I'm sitting here drooling at the thought of this rare, beautiful straight line ...

No, I musn't ... I can't ... I just can't ...*weeping*
 

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