Does anybody actually like fruitcake. [Archive]

bsuite

11-24-2009, 04:27 PM

Someone used to send my folks one every Christmas.
It was from somewhere in Texas.
Man, that thing was good.
I have never had anything like it since.

proreverb68

11-24-2009, 04:29 PM

Fruit cake? Occasionally..I've had a slice of good ones where I thought to myself..."Oh this is why people like this stuff'
But usually I try a bite...and just spit it out into the nearest open gift bag.

proreverb68

11-24-2009, 04:30 PM

Someone used to send my folks one every Christmas.
It was from somewhere in Texas.
Man, that thing was good.
I have never had anything like it since.

Exactly!!!!!

Maybe all the good fruit cake comes from Texas...heh!

Sort of like the San Antonio Pink Grape fruit thing...

singing6string

11-24-2009, 04:32 PM

I love it! Especially the light coloured fruitcake! However it has to be moist to be good.

Flyin' Brian

11-24-2009, 04:36 PM

Yep. Make it around August and inject some rum into it regularly.

smiert spionam

11-24-2009, 04:40 PM

No.

mr_sooty

11-24-2009, 04:57 PM

No, it's gross. I never had a single piece of my wedding cake.

cvansickle

11-24-2009, 05:24 PM

My grandmother used to eat it like it was going out of style!

God rest her soul.

Blue Fin

11-24-2009, 05:25 PM

I wouldn't touch it!

Frankee

11-24-2009, 05:26 PM

Someone mentioned rum?

Rum makes any pastry good.

1936chebbie

11-24-2009, 05:28 PM

claxtons its the best and only one edible...

Yankee Univox

11-24-2009, 05:32 PM

I'm currently in therapy,and learning to like meself!:crazy

Tonemeister69

11-24-2009, 05:37 PM

I loathe fruitcake also.

Cowboy

11-24-2009, 05:42 PM

God, NO!

The haggis of the pastry community.

Yech,
Cowboy

Julia343

11-24-2009, 05:45 PM

Fruitcake.... the gift that keeps on regifting.

oldschoolguy

11-24-2009, 05:54 PM

My mom knew somebody who made it with whiskey and carrots. Took all day long and was quite a to do. We kids never got to eat any of it but the grownups seemed to think it was something special. Don't have the recipe or I do it myself.
Ordinarily, absolutely not.

Stew

11-24-2009, 05:56 PM

No, it's gross. I never had a single piece of my wedding cake.

I read this and remembered that the same thing happened to me. I looked to see where you were from and was not suprized to see that you're from New Zealand. My wife is from New Zealand and we got married there. (Hence the fruitcake) Ours had this hard white sugar coating that made it even worse. My mother in law has sent us fruitcakes over the years. At first they wouldn't get eaten until there was nothing left in the house. When I was really hungry they tasted pretty good. I've grown to like them since then.

Cobra

11-24-2009, 06:59 PM

Frootkakes are good for seeing how far you can throw them...

guitarist58

11-24-2009, 07:09 PM

If anyone wonders if there is fruitcake that is actually good, Gethsemani Farms Kentucky Bourbon Fruitcake, IMO, flat out rocks! :drool
(alas, it's also really expensive)

http://www.gethsemanifarms.org/fruitcake.aspx

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8269/geth2.jpg

Old Tele man

11-24-2009, 07:54 PM

...yeah, they make EXCELLENT gifts to send to relatives you don't like!

rsm

11-24-2009, 11:57 PM

God, NO!

The haggis of the pastry community.

Yech,
Cowboy

Real Haggis Rocks! IMO. Of course, you'll want to have the whisky too!

Much better than fruitcake.

Too bad we can't get the real thing here in the US though. :(

http://epac06.org/useful/Edinburgh/pics/haggis.jpg

Brock

11-25-2009, 12:42 AM

Doesn't add up.......Fruit... Good..... Cake...... Better...
Fruitcake..... Nasty crap!

TwoTubMan

11-25-2009, 12:50 AM

Johnny Carson had the best ever riff on fruitcake. There's only ONE fruitcake, ever. And it's been passed around from family to family, holiday to holiday, forever.

Re-gifting is not a new phenomena.

Boobala

11-25-2009, 12:53 AM

Fruitcake... Yuck! :barf

Moe Zambeek

11-25-2009, 01:40 AM

The last time I had one was as a child. I remember the fruit being so sickening sweet that I threw that away and ate the cake and the nuts in it. That part was good.

Bobby D

11-25-2009, 03:18 AM

yes.....my mom makes WICKED GOOD fruitcake. i gotta talk her into making it again this year. i'm the only one in the family that likes it, other than her. but yes.....i LOVE it....but only hers....i have tried others, it ain't the same.

JimmyB

11-25-2009, 08:05 AM

God, NO!

The haggis of the pastry community.

Yech,
Cowboy
You obviously don't know haggis then! Properly made haggis is divine. :aok

However... it really shouldn't be made with fruit... perhaps that's where you're getting confused! :rotflmao
Real Haggis Rocks!
Too bad we can't get the real thing here in the US though. :(
There's your problem... gotta move here! Canada's connections with the U.K. still thrive... in the areas that matter, anyway. :D

By the way, I don't understand the hate for fruitcake either... just pick a good recipe and go for it.

Doug H

11-25-2009, 08:08 AM

Yes, I like it and don't really understand why it has such a bad reputation. My wife's late grandmother made some killer fruitcake. I'm guessing there's either a lot of bad recipes for it or a lot of people who can't make it correctly or something... I've seemed to have heard a lot of complaints about it being dry but a good fruitcake is never dry, and is more moist than just about any cake you will eat other than cheesecake.

Rattles

11-25-2009, 08:21 AM

My mother-in-law makes a killer fruit cake! Best I've ever eaten!

guitarist58

11-25-2009, 10:03 AM

The last time I had one was as a child. I remember the fruit being so sickening sweet that I threw that away and ate the cake and the nuts in it. That part was good.

That's one of the things that makes the Gethsemani Trappist fruitcake I mentioned earlier so good--not too much fruit (and no citron, IIRC). I HATED fruitcake until I tried some of it!

OlAndrew

11-25-2009, 11:02 AM

THe wife makes a wonderful fruitcake. In fact, I've gotta start pestering her to get busy on some.

It's Time!

11-25-2009, 11:08 AM

:puh

I love good fruit cake or English Christmas cake provided it's good quality.

Just like I like good pizza over crap pizza.

Cowboy

11-25-2009, 11:54 AM

Real Haggis Rocks! IMO. Of course, you'll want to have the whisky too!

Much better than fruitcake.

Too bad we can't get the real thing here in the US though. :(

http://epac06.org/useful/Edinburgh/pics/haggis.jpg:aok

You're adding weight to my assertion. Allow me to point out that enough tequila can make menudo (the food - NOTHING could make the singing group-) palatable. :p:p

Just like scotch and haggis. :barf

Cheers, :drink
An-enough-alcohol-can-even-make-MY-cooking-seem-edible Cowboy

TD_Madden

11-25-2009, 12:02 PM

Someone used to send my folks one every Christmas.
It was from somewhere in Texas.
Man, that thing was good.
I have never had anything like it since.

Probably from the Collins Street Bakery...

rsm

11-25-2009, 12:03 PM

Agreed. I saw the comparison, real haggis, like real fruitcake is great. Its the bad immitations that ruin it. And yes, a good Scot whisky improves all things IMO...at least in my experience. Not much of a Tequila guy, but I'll take your word for it! :). Not sure what menudo (food) is, but I can eat a real haggis w/o the whisky. Just sayin'. Haggis, like whisky is an acquired taste...like marmite / vegemite IMO. Perhaps fruitcake is too?

Cheers!

:aok

Your adding weight to my assertion. Allow me to point out that enough tequila can make menudo (the food - NOTHING could make the singing group-) palatable. :p:p

Just like scotch and haggis. :barf

Cheers, :drink
An-enough-alcohol-can-even-make-MY-cooking-seem-edible Cowboy

TNJ

11-25-2009, 12:24 PM

God, NO!

The haggis of the pastry community.

Yech,
Cowboy

To me...

THIS.

S.
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urizen

11-25-2009, 03:48 PM

Happily, an appreciation of fruitcake is something that both my wife and I share. While they are the butt of cliched "jokes" and gags (which is the reason why, after having read the thread title, I'm plugging this in and diving back off without bothering to read the thus-far already-posted sort of lame-assed commonplaces that this topic usually "inspires" among the hoi polloi), a really good gourmet/premium fruitcake can be a wonderful and surprisingly complex thing---they've simply been too often badly represented with a plethora of poor mass-extruded packaged products, resulting in a gustatory meme tragedy analogous to what would happen if one only knew "pizza" from Pizza Hut and Geno's frozen pizza, or "cheese" from Kraft's American slices and Cheez-Whiz.

8mileshigh

11-25-2009, 05:08 PM

I like the cake part but hate the dried fruit...

urizen

11-26-2009, 09:33 AM

By the way, does pannetone count too?

Craig Walker

11-26-2009, 07:30 PM

Not another Adam Lambert thread... :rolleyes:

bluesjuke

11-26-2009, 07:40 PM

Someone used to send my folks one every Christmas.
It was from somewhere in Texas.
Man, that thing was good.
I have never had anything like it since.

That would be from Corsicana, Texas.
The Collin Street Bakery.
I passed right by there today going to the family ranch.

The bakery was founded in 1896 by August Weiderman , an immigrant from Weisbaden, Germany.

I love it!
I'm always glad to get one as a gift too.

FlyingDutchman

11-26-2009, 07:51 PM

I love it!!!!!

southpawmax

11-26-2009, 07:59 PM

We buy one from a local bakery. They soak it in some good bourbon for a few hours. It's moist, sweet and has bourbon, what more could you ask for?

Steve Foley

11-29-2009, 10:01 PM

As a rule, no - I hate fruitcake. I think the same black African fruitcake has been being re-gifted among our family and friends for the last two centuries. :huh

My Grandma, though, used to make some AWESOME fruitcake. We couldn't get enough. It had a layer of crystalline sugary, buttery frosting sort of stuff on top, and lots of walnuts and pecans, that were browned just right. Not a lot of the candied fruit - just enough to flavor it. The dough matrix was moist, and flavorful. I only found out recently she used to put a jar of brandy in each one.... now wonder we liked it..... :D

Dexter.Sinister

11-29-2009, 10:21 PM

I love a fruitcake made with good dried fruits (not the artificially colored/flavored junk), whole grain flours, fresh spices, a fair amount of likker, and set aside to age for a few weeks. With coffee in the late afternoon on a cool day, it is sublime.

DS

bsuite

11-29-2009, 11:54 PM

Probably from the Collins Street Bakery...

That sounds very familiar!

bsuite

11-29-2009, 11:55 PM

That would be from Corsicana, Texas.
The Collin Street Bakery.
I passed right by there today going to the family ranch.

The bakery was founded in 1896 by August Weiderman , an immigrant from Weisbaden, Germany.

I love it!
I'm always glad to get one as a gift too.

Yes! That's the name of it!

Great stuff!
Very moist, melts in your mouth.
Not the old dried out crap.