I remember the Tonight Show did a piece about fruitcakes and how you can't get rid of them - they put a fruitcake inside a building, blew up the building, and there was nothing left but the fruitcake!

I can't stand the stuff with the candied fruit. It doesn't taste like anything you should really eat - ? But we used to get a diabetic fruitcake for my Grandpa and it wasn't bad. I also tried making one once. It was a tropical fruitcake with golden raisins, dried papaya, dried pineapple, dried apricots and coconut all rehydrated with almond liqueor and apple brandy. The fruit was good, but the cake was like sawdust. With a better cake recipe, that would probably be a good fruitcake. But it cost over $30 to make that cake, so I'm not planning on trying again.