Each year this is how I know the holiday season has really started: the first of the fruitcake jokes.
I’ve never understood the prejudice against them. I love them. My only complaint is that I’ll finish a 1-1/2 pound fruitcake in under 48 hours, but then that’s hardly the cake’s fault. I try to hold it down to only one a year. Any more and I might have to do something terrible, like exercise.
Properly made fruitcakes are great. My favorite is the Italian yeast raised style. I think the jokes are remembering some spectacular baking failures of the legendary past. Have you ever made “ceramic” christmas ornaments with baked playdough (flour, salt, water)? Now imagine that a fruitcake has too much salt, is missing eggs/baking powder, and is thoroughly baked.
margueritem almost 16 years ago
Fruitcakes have a shelf life of over 1000 years. They can survive a nuclear attack, just like cockroaches.
pschearer Premium Member almost 16 years ago
Each year this is how I know the holiday season has really started: the first of the fruitcake jokes.
I’ve never understood the prejudice against them. I love them. My only complaint is that I’ll finish a 1-1/2 pound fruitcake in under 48 hours, but then that’s hardly the cake’s fault. I try to hold it down to only one a year. Any more and I might have to do something terrible, like exercise.
stuart almost 16 years ago
Properly made fruitcakes are great. My favorite is the Italian yeast raised style. I think the jokes are remembering some spectacular baking failures of the legendary past. Have you ever made “ceramic” christmas ornaments with baked playdough (flour, salt, water)? Now imagine that a fruitcake has too much salt, is missing eggs/baking powder, and is thoroughly baked.
mrprongs almost 16 years ago
Fruitcake is good, but store bought. I wonder if the jokes arose from homemade ones, and hence the spectacular failures