# I love fruit cake. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061 "2004-12-10T03:09:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/1 "2004-12-10T03:09:35Z")
Anyone who doesn’t and gets one for xmas…email me for my address and send it to me. It’s better for it to be appreciated than thrown away. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/2 "2004-12-10T03:12:50Z")
For that matter, I love iPods. Anyone who gets one and doesn’t want it, I’ll be glad to take it off your hands as opposed to it being thrown out. And if I get a fruitcake, it’s going to straight to you, **Reeder**. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/3 "2004-12-10T03:15:04Z")
What do you do with the fruitcake? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/4 "2004-12-10T03:16:09Z")
I should add I love Claxtons most. We aren’t talking Ipods here. No one hates Ipods. They do hate fruit cake though. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/5 "2004-12-10T03:17:17Z")
> [@Keapon Laffin](#): > > What do you do with the fruitcake? > :dubious: I eat it. Surprise surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/6 "2004-12-10T03:24:20Z")
There are some people who hate iPods. Ever been in one of those threads? Full of sick, twisted people… ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/7 "2004-12-10T03:28:18Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > **I love fruit cake.** Have you ever made the recipe in The Settlement Cookbook? A pound of butter, pound of brown sugar, 12 eggs, molasses, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, almonds, pecans, two kinds of raisons, dates, figs, and five kinds of candied fruit? It’ll kill you, but **YUMM** , what a way to go! ---
**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/8 "2004-12-10T03:56:56Z")
They have fruit and nut cakes at the supermarkets in the area. Very yum. 🙂 If I get any plain fruit-cakes, I’ll send them your way. If anyone encounters any handsome and studly fruit-cakes, send _them_ my way. 🙂 WRS/Thû ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/9 "2004-12-10T04:01:20Z")
Mmmmm. Me too. I was hoping you’d be in California, and we could split up the country and save people shipping costs. Why didn’t I think of this thread first? I’d tell you to forward some on to me if you get too many, but who’s ever heard of too many fruitcakes? Crazy people. That’s who! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/10 "2004-12-10T04:20:07Z")
Damn we’ve got some sick and depraved people on this Board! **Reeder** gets the first fruitcake we get, **Alan** the next. We usually get them, and then I use them as doorstops for a month or so, then they get tossed. Glad to know I can send them somewhere for safe disposal. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/11 "2004-12-10T04:21:38Z")
I’ll take a couple or four of the overflow. But I only want them if the ingredients list does **not** contain the word citron. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/12 "2004-12-10T05:02:39Z")
Me and the missus both lurves us some fruitcake. We’re a match made in heaven. Or hell I guess, depending on your POV. And yeah, **Reeder** , Claxtons is good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/13 "2004-12-10T05:15:31Z")
My mother has been working on her Xmas ccake since August. Hands off, **Reeder** ---
**Author:** ![SpiceTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@SpiceTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpiceTea)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/14 "2004-12-10T05:19:44Z")
Can you send one up my way, too! I could eat fruitcake all year long and never get tired of it! I even made one a few years ago, and it was the most delicious treat I had that Christmas! Yummy yum yum! ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/15 "2004-12-10T05:25:45Z")
My Mom still labors each fall to produce a new batch of dark, sticky, fruity yumminess that gets painted with rum and whisky before being sealed up to age for a year. Decadence was never so tasty without breasts, say I. 😃😉 ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/16 "2004-12-10T05:38:38Z")
Y’all are sick! That is all I can say, as I am throwing up a little in my mouth even thinking about fruitcake. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/17 "2004-12-10T05:52:14Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Have you ever made the recipe in The Settlement Cookbook? > A pound of butter, pound of brown sugar, 12 eggs, molasses, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, almonds, pecans, two kinds of raisons, dates, figs, and five kinds of candied fruit? > > It’ll kill you, but **YUMM** , what a way to go! That’s the one! (Variations are allowed, of course. I hope the candied fruit includes ginger!) Make it at least a year in advance, and keep applying the booze, as danceswithcats recommends. And send me a couple after the others have theirs. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/18 "2004-12-10T07:21:08Z")
I can remember going to my grandmother’s house as a child-she would have tins of fruitcake stacked upin the china cabinet…some of them were from Christmasses YEARS ago! I always wondered why people gave each other this stuff, which they (apparently) never wanted to eat! Finally, one day I asked her about them-and she consented to open one can for me. It was GROSS! I believe it was some knd of Irish fruitcake (it was soaked with irish whiskey). I remember trying to eat a little slice of it-and gagging! It had all of that candied citron (yelow red, and green)…yeecchh! Anyway, I suppose FRUITCAKE is the ultimate “regiftable” gft-you can always wrap it up and foist it on to another unwitting dupe! Does fruitcake 9in tins) ever go bad? is it vintage dated, like wine? ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/19 "2004-12-10T18:22:36Z")
I love fruitcake. No one believes me, but I do! I want to buy a really good one this year. Usually I just settle for those little 1 pound logs they sell at Kroger. Maybe I need to go somewhere a little…classier, hmm? I’d love to make my own, but I don’t know if I’d have the patience. Do they all have to sit around forever formenting or whatever they do? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061/20 "2004-12-10T18:37:27Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > My mother has been working on her Xmas ccake since August. Hands off, **Reeder** Hey, I like fruit cake also. And I live in Austin. I’ll pick it up and save you the trip to the post office. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruit-cake/279061.md?page=2)