There’s the stuff in the dairy display that’s basically sweetened flavored half & half. It’s delicious. We drink it with a sprinkling of nutmeg on Christmas morning. You can add brandy, but by default it’s non-alcoholic.
There’s the stuff your friend makes from an old family recipe that’s basically whipped eggs with rum and other booze. You know, egg and nog. It’s also delicious, and foamy, and if it weren’t for all that booze you’d worry about what you might catch from the raw eggs. But thanks to the booze you just worry about driving home from the party.
Probably confirmation bias, but it seems everyone I know loves fruitcake :eek:. My mother makes several–from scratch–every Yule time and folks batten on it like Walkers on a deer carcass.
And isn’t that the subtext of the “everyone hates fruitcake” joke: everyone really loves it and is poking fun at the shlubs who snub it. Doesn’t faze me; do yer worst!
Oh, Cripes, you’re talking about these abominations, aren’t you? Familiar with the term “Wino breakfast”? One of those with a half pint of Knottyhead. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that “Claxton” is so similar to “klaxon.”
That does sound good–maybe apples instead of blueberries, though. I would swear that has a different name than fruitcake, but I’m at a loss, at the moment.
No to all three. Never really liked hard candy, I don’t do eggs or milk, and I had my fill of fruitcake after having to sell it door to door for school fundraising.
Just give me some gingerbread with a dollop of whipped cream, thanks.
Link much appreciated :D:cool: This is a Hallmark home every December … er, and November, too … aw heck, they’re gettin’ October now**, too.
** Not in jest. Hallmark’s Christmas movies started the weekend before Halloween this year.
When I went on a quickie search for alcoholic from-scratch eggnog recipes, sometimes it’s called “eggnog cocktail”. Therefore, at least a few sources seem to acknowledge that the alcoholic version is not the essential eggnog.
Might be some regional/cultural differences at play, too. New Orleans is a drinking town, to be sure, but eggnog is not a native part of the drinking culture.
I’ve, um, never had fruit cake. Or, if I have, it wasn’t called that. So I don’t know if I like it or not
Egg nog is great (and non-alcoholic), and most hard candy is good–though there is tons upon tons of diversity there, so much that I would be surprised at anyone who hated ALL hard candy.
I wasn’t sure how to vote on “hard candy”. I don’t mind it once in a while, but I don’t particularly associate it with Christmas. When I think of Christmas candy, I think of licorice allsorts or chocolates like Turtles or After Eight (and also the disgusting Terry’s Chocolate Orange).
Same here. Although my father always ensured we had a well-stocked bar, eggnog in our house was neither alcoholic, nor restricted to the Christmas season–we had a family recipe, and made it anytime we liked, all throughout the year. I guess we could have added some booze, but we never did.
Fruitcake? Yes, but homemade from another old family recipe, if possible. A few store-bought fruitcakes are good-to-great. But many are not what I would call a traditional fruitcake, which (according to Grandmother’s recipe), you should start making in October.
Nooooo! The Chocolate orange is great. Love that thing. Love whacking it. The slivers of orange flavored chocolate are not too much. I love chocolate covered cherries too. Alas, I can only have about one per year.
Yes to all three, with the caveat that the fruitcake should be served together with twice its weight in custard. Mmmm … custaaard …
Eggnog is not really traditional in Australia, but I have loved it when I’ve had it - the more alcoholic the better. Not very likely to happen this year with my fully teetotalling in-laws.
Hard candy I just assumed was candy-canes - they’re the ones that are “christmassy”. Mint flavour, for the full traditional experience.
Homemade fruitcake probably rocks. The fruitcakes that “everyone hates” are the ones you describe below: