Alright. Do people really hate fruitcake?
I love the dense, bread-like kind, not too soused and not too weighed-down with fruit or nuts. Is there a place in the NY or online/mail order where I can get the bread-like variety? Or maybe you have a good recipe?
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17 Comments
7:18AM on 12/04/06
I think it tastes like poison!
8:52AM on 12/04/06
its an horrible, nasty thing
9:23AM on 12/04/06
I like fruitcake from my hometown bakery. It isn't drunk and there is plenty of dense, yummy bread to go with the fruit and nuts. I'm not sure how fruitcake got such a bad reputation. Perhaps Femmebot and I can start a movement to repair the good name of fruitcake!
10:34AM on 12/04/06
I'd rather have colonoscopy than be forced to eat fruit cake!
12:36PM on 12/04/06
I've never had fruitcake. But I like fruit in cakes.
1:20PM on 12/04/06
I think a lot of fruitcakes are made wth those dayglo candied fruits that all taste the same and are way too sweet, with not a hint of the taste the original fruit might have had. My mother and grandmother love the fruitcakes like this. I can't stand them.
I have had fruitcakes with more natural dried fruits in them, with a batter that isn't overly sweet, either, and I enjoy that version.
1:58PM on 12/04/06
I love fruit, and I love cake. But I've yet to enjoy a single bite of fruitcake. Maybe I'm trying the wrong ones, but they've always been too dense, too odd-tasting, too...something. It's like the cake's trying too hard to be something it shouldn't.
2:00PM on 12/04/06
The best fruit cake come from Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, TX. They use fresh pecans and natural fruits and it's the only fruit cake I'll eat. That other stuff gives fruit cakes a bad name.
2:13PM on 12/04/06
do people really eat fruitcake?
5:42PM on 12/04/06
Yes, real people eat and enjoy good fruitcake. I didn't like it as a kid, and don't like the cheap junk from the supermarket.
Some rules of thumb: If the cake has no texture, but is just a dense sweet paste, it is a bad fruitcake. If there is no liquor, just flavoring, it's a bad fruitcake (although some can be saved by boozing and aging it). If the nuts have a tough damp texture, it's a bad fruitcake.
8:01PM on 12/04/06
I love serious food and I love good fruitcake too. The best mass-available is Georgia's Claxton Fruitcake, first made by Italian immigrants to south Georgia in 1910. It has the day-glo candied fruits that people claim to hate (why be such snobs?), but the Claxtons are fresh and somehow manage to be cakey and chewey at the same time.
9:09PM on 12/04/06
Disliking the dayglo fruits isn't always snobbery! They certainly are pretty, but I don't care for their taste. That's kind of it. :)
1:58PM on 12/05/06
I never eat fruitcake, unless it is the only fod around!
10:48AM on 12/06/06
I personally love my Mom's fruitcake. It's a dense and moist, not very sweet cake, w/ some fruit and nuts in it. She wraps it in cheesecloth and mists it w/ bourbon, just enough to add some flavor.
6:15AM on 12/14/06
My husband and I are fruitcake lovers, and can go through a fruitcake pretty fast... Just like all food, there are bad ones and good ones.
9:21PM on 12/19/06
Want to know what I think about fruitcake??? GO HERE - http://www.themustangs.net/mp3/MXmix/IMYAFFC-.mp3 - a short clip
7:25AM on 12/20/06
Heh. Funny clip, 9five. Thanks for sharing!
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