Kobayashi just couldn't take the cake. On Friday, he came up six ounces short of the competitive fruitcake-eating record, at four pounds and eight ounces. He cited the density as a hindrance. Watch video footage from Fox News here....
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"[A] joyless mass of dry cake polluted with the unpleasant bits of dried fruit that even your Nan wouldn't eat, dusted with a cloying layer of elderly icing sugar and wrapped in a box with a ribbon." That's how Guardian blogger Tim Hayward describes panettone, which he goes on to call "an elaborate Italian joke." The big, red, bell-shaped box is fast becoming the Christmas gift (and re-gift) of choice, and, like its predecessor, the fruitcake, is considered something of a burden to the recipient. Well, fruitcake has always had its defenders (how else has it continued to make the rounds?), so I'll be panettone's. Unlike fruitcake, panettone is a tender brioche that can be baked into bread pudding or...
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What could pass as a fruitcake but is better because you can't eat it? An inflatable fruitcake! No one wants to eat the real thing anyway; as long as you can blow air, the inflatable fruitcake offers the joy only a fruitcake could bring, year after glorious year. Practically a steal for only $9.50 (shipping included)! "This is the most perfect item ever created," declares the frighteningly enthusiastic dude in the commercial. You should listen to him. The inflatable fruitcake comes from novelty gift shop Archie McPhee, also the creator of the inflatable toast mattress. [via The Presurfer] Related Alright. Do people really hate fruitcake? The last bastion of fruitcake respect Fruitcake Defeated in Rap Battle...
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Saw this on Boing Boing yesterday. A rapper faces off with a fruitcake in a rap battle. Should be of interest to our readers interested in fruitcake. "The only way I'll eat you is from behind the mic/ I think you're the inspiration for a hunger strike." Heh. -->...
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Mondo Fruitcake is a blog about fruitcake and the ". . . the Web's last bastion of fruitcake RESPECT." Her pick for the best fruitcake? The Gethsemani Trappist Fruitcake: The cake against which all past and future fruitcakes will be judged. I’ll try to stay objective but I’m disclaiming right now that this is the one I’ve grown up with, the one I look forward to every holiday season, and the one that comes to mind when someone says "fruitcake." It’s also why I don’t have the anti-fruitcake bias—I’ve grown up on good fruitcake. Gethsemani Farms Website...
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