The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for December 16, 2024

You know for something that’s a cake of some kind, it sure isn’t popular.

How many – eyes of newt is Mother Gargoyle going to use ….. this time??!!

:-O

I’m sure it makes for a good doorstop.

As much as people abhor them. (I dunno why, I’m not into them) I just checked Amazon and they are quite expensive and people love them.

With fruitcake, you either love it or you hate it. Though some are better than others, maybe those who hate them just haven’t had the right one. And Mother Witchhat’s version isn’t likely to turn them into a fan!

Fruit good . . . Cake good . . . Fruitcake . . . Not So Much !

The closest I get to fruitcake on a regular basis is carrot cake. Not sure if I have ever had fruitcake, will have to give it a try sometime.

I’ve eaten some good ones, but they are always homemade.

Good answer Brutus, Deja-poo, also acceptable.

Fruit Good,

Cake Great,

Fruit Cake, Nasty Cr@p.

Jim Gaffigan

there was a story a few years ago about a family that had been regifting the same fruitcake for many years

At least it is not Lutefisk. It smells so bad; The Rose on the Wallpaper wilted and died.

the gift that keeps on giving…

You old battle axe you could do that at your cave or wherever you sleep? Please not on a Monday. Whole week feels jinxed now!

Tried fruitcake back in the 1940’s. Still gagging. Now Chocolate – Un Huh. My late wife cooked 20 thin layer cakes. Thanksgiving and Christmas, she stayed busy cooking cakes and me – her clean up man. And cooked Birthday cakes for many folks and for sick folks. She was a treasure. Lord Jesus truly blessed me with her. Seamstress and cook and a precious Jewel of a Lady. My Mother and Wife were best friends. I could only say “Yes Honey” for I knew my place. I miss them both so very much. Thank you Lord Jesus.

Do you want my recipe, Mother Gargle? I make a fruitcake that even Brutus would like!

Good one Brutus !

My sister made us a marble cake. We always took it for granite.

maybe it’s time for a new recipe that’s a little more inviting… how about cookies! :g

I had to laugh out loud at this one :)

Fruit cakes are like kale; ok once you get used to them, but nobody ever does

Can Brutus ever catch a break not even at Christmas ?

Oh that was close to a coffee spit take! Hilarious!!!!

Brutus was hoping she would haunt Eerie for the holidays and favor her neighbors with cauldron cake.

people eat fruitcakes all wrong…growing up in RI my folks would spend first 2 weeks of December in FL, and driving home each year we would make a detour to Claxton GA to stop at Claxton Fruitcakes to buy some for all the relatives (it was 60’s they weren’t in stores yet) and we would wait and buy a couple right out of the oven…fruitcakes should be eaten warm, maybe with a hunk of butter melted on it

Attaboy Brutus don’t hold back……….

Would Brutus even admit it if the cake isn’t bad? He should keep in mind that it’s a family recipe and he will be eating it for the rest of his life.

I don’t know if she can spare the rum to make a good fruitcake.

I hate eating empty calories. If, I am going to gain the weight that I have to lose at a later date, I want to have had an enjoyable experience from the first bite to the last one of that particular item. A high calorie fruit cake, however well intentioned, even those of a secret family recipe, AND especially not one from Grandma Gargoyle, are not on my empty calorie consumption list and never will be…….

The trick to good fruitcake is to get one of the big round ones that’s dark, gooey, and loaded with candied fruit, especially cherries cut in pieces no smaller than half-a-cherry each. Harry and David’s are the non plus ultra creme de la creme, but they’re too expensive, but there are others in the same style that are almost as good for half the price or less. The ones that are AWFUL are the dried-out scantily-fruited “loafs” that crumble to pieces immediately upon contact with a knife and with the fruit near-pureed into submicroscopic particles too small for a mouse, a.k.a. “Claxtons.” They shouldn’t even be allowed to advertise themselves as fruitcake. They’re just (barely) glorified raisin bread.

Brutus, Brutus, Brutus…you make that comment in secret, and not in front of the family, man!! LOL

No fruitcake for you Brutus. And that’s good right?

If she cooks anything like she looks, should be a real witches treat.

Fruit cake isn’t bad imo. I don’t think I want Ramona’s though.

Brutus hates fruitcake?

Brutus hates Mother Gargle’s fruitcake?

Brutus may like fruitcake, but doesn’t trust Mother Gargle’s fruitcake?

Pick one.

The best fruit cake I ever had was the one left on the store shelf.