Who likes fruitcake?

[MomOnBike]

I've made fruitcake, and enjoyed eating it and giving it away this time of year. It gets such a bad rap, though, that I stopped. I don't want to go to all that work and expense if people aren't even going to try it. Sad, really. Some of them were really good.

Come to think of it, fruit cake is a lot like ravioli. The commercial canned stuff is inedible, but if you are lucky to get ravioli made by someone who knows how. . .

Sadly, about all anyone knows is the commercial varieties of either.

[Chile Pepper]

There aren't enough options in the poll. I wanted to vote "Blech! Why?" but had to settle for the demure "No thank you."

[kelownagirl]

love love love it. No one in my family made any this year. Sigh....

[channlluv]

My grandmother used to keep two big, gallon-size jars of brandied fruit "cooking" and would make these fantastic holiday cakes. Being oldest granddaugther, I was often assigned furniture polishing duty, and when I'd stop by that corner chest of drawers with the brandied fruit containers, I'd slip the lid off and take a big whiff and actually get a little high off the fumes.

Yeah, I admit it. I whiffed brandied fruit.

Merry Christmas everybody.

Roxy

[PamNY]

Oh, Zen, you made me want fruitcake.

Pam

[tzvia]

I used to love good fruitcake, warm with my favorite 31flavor, chocolate/peanutbutter, melting all over it...

MMMMM....
But that is how I got obese. Now I am not, and have 15 more lbs to go that just won't go and won't be helped by gooey fruitcake and ice-cream that is not on the menu any more. Oh well. I used to substitute a poptart for fruitake if I did not have any, and glob on the ice-cream. Yumm.

Fruitcake by itself is boring, but with ice-cream melted all over (with whipped cream, sprinkles and hot chocolate fudge) it is transformed into mondo dessert!

Ignore me, it's just the rambling of my fatso past. I can't remember the last time I had ice-cream or fruitcake or hot fudge.

I think fruitcake is the number 1 're-gifted' item in the U.S.