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If you would have asked me about fruitcake when I was under the age of 13, I would not have known what it was. I suppose it was a more common Christmas food in North Carolina than other places I had lived. I had never heard of it when we got some as gifts and it was sliced and presented as a special food choice on buffet tables. When I finally saw it, I thought it was worthy of a taste, it looked colorful and fun. However, I was mistaken! I really just couldn’t swallow it. I don’t recall that anyone in my immediate family liked fruitcake and I think we just threw it away.
In preparation for this post I did a bit of playing around on the internet for Christmas fruitcake and found lots of humorous jokes and videos, including the classic Johnny Carson indestructible fruitcake (begins at 5:21), as well as serious websites such as the Society for the Protection and Preservation of Fuitcake with lots of links to stories, history and recipes. I found these entertaining and I previously only had a vague notion of how strongly people view Christmas fruitcake.
For me, I do not have strong feelings about it at all. I suppose I must have only had a bad fruitcake but I’m not so sure that I’m interested in trying it repeatedly in order to find a ‘good’ one. Instead, since my husband’s a Jimmy Buffett fan, I’ll just settle on listening to Buffett’s Fruitcakes.
Here’s the chorus:
Fruitcakes in the kitchen (Fruitcakes in the kitchen)
Fruitcakes on the street (Fruitcakes on the street)
Struttin’ naked through the crosswalk
In the middle of the week
Half-baked cookies in the oven (Cookies in the oven)
Half-baked people on the bus (People on the bus)
There’s a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us
dmbr622 said:
What a fun response!
I did make a very good fruitcake one year while we were in Durham. It’s in my recipe cardfile and is called “The Villagers Fruitcake.” It required a lot of ingredients I didn’t keep on hand (like citron and candied cherries) and was time consuming (3 1/3-hour cooking time for the tube pan variety), so I never made it again, though I frequently thought about making it – which is generally as far as I get on any involved activity any more.
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kbea831 said:
I do not remember that cake at all. If it was good, maybe you should try making it again. Did you like it?
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