# I love fruitcake! I don't care who knows!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 22, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175 "2009-12-22T06:27:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/41 "2009-12-26T18:36:05Z")
On the way down to Florida, traversing Georgia, every other road sign advertises the “Pecan Plantations”, hawking their famous pecan rolls and [Claxton Fruitcake](http://www.claxtonfruitcake.com/index.php). It’s ubiquitous down Floridy way, but I’ve never tried it? Anybody ever eaten Claxton Fruitcake?
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/42 "2009-12-27T03:07:14Z")
The soaked-in-liquor for months thing has never impressed me. It just seems a way to cover up a second-rate fruitcake. A first-rate fruitcake, with quality ingredients, can stand on its own without the liquor bath.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/43 "2009-12-27T03:56:22Z")
> [@Walloon](#):
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> A first-rate fruitcake, with quality ingredients, can stand on its own without the liquor bath.
I’ve been nibbling on, er, testing one of them. They’re nice.
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### Author:  [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/44 "2009-12-28T03:55:46Z")
[Clax Snax](http://www.claxtonfruitcake.com/products.php?category_id=13)- individually wrapped snack slices of claxton fruitcake for your convenience. Excellent workout powerbar… very nutritionally dense and natural.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/45 "2009-12-28T04:02:39Z")
I’m still nibbling. I’ll buy some rum tomorrow and begin anointing them.
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### Author:  [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/46 "2009-12-28T06:07:39Z")
My whole family likes the fruitcake my mother makes. However, the ratio of candied fruit has been gradually increasing each Christmas to the point that this year the fruitcakes were basically fruit held together by a thin mortar of cake.
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### Author:  [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/47 "2009-12-28T12:57:08Z")
> [@salinqmind](#):
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> I’ll eat it, washed down with eggnog, of course. There used to be a cellophane sealed, commercially made, light-colored bar of fruitcake sold in the grocery store - maybe the Collins Street Bakery made it? It was far superior to any other baked goods during the Christmas season, I haven’t seen it in years though.
The Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas, makes excellent fruit cake. Plus several other pecan-based cakes. You can [order online](http://www.collinstreet.com/)!
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### Author:  [@zeno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeno)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/48 "2009-12-29T01:59:05Z")
I haven’t seen any for a few years now. I used like it!
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### Author:  [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/49 "2009-12-29T02:35:26Z")
Eh? Did you stop making it?
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/50 "2009-12-29T03:20:17Z")
Here’s the old standard recipe from the New Settlement Cookbook:
[http://homecooking.about.com/od/cakerecipes/r/blc39.htm](http://homecooking.about.com/od/cakerecipes/r/blc39.htm)
I make it every couple years. It’s good, but pretty Calorie intensive.
If you make two loaves, you can store one in the freezer til Easter or the 4th of July.
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### Author:  [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/51 "2009-12-29T03:35:25Z")
Isn’t there a company/bakery somewhere in Georgia that makes most of the country’s fruit cakes?
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### Author:  [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/52 "2009-12-29T04:00:12Z")
They sell them at the gas station near my house. If I remember, I’ll check the brand.
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### Author:  [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/53 "2009-12-29T04:18:27Z")
I still buy homemade ones from the Christmas markets. I recently discovered the light ones (white instead of brown) and they are so delish!
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/54 "2009-12-29T04:23:00Z")
> [@Fubaya](#):
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> They sell them at the gas station near my house. If I remember, I’ll check the brand.
Napa? O’Reilly? Delco?
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/55 "2009-12-29T04:30:44Z")
Moving to Cafe Society from GQ.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/56 "2009-12-29T04:44:59Z")
I liked it, but grew sensitive to the [sulfiting agents](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/687/is-there-any-danger-from-sulfites-in-wine) used to maintain the artificial colors in some of the fruit.
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### Author:  [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/57 "2009-12-29T05:52:16Z")
**SanDiegoTim** , you’re thinking of the [Collin Street Bakery](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collin_Street_Bakery) in Texas. I have one of their cakes sitting in my kitchen (although I didn’t purchase it myself.)
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### Author:  [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/58 "2009-12-29T09:15:39Z")
> [@Pasta](#):
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> **SanDiegoTim** , you’re thinking of the [Collin Street Bakery](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collin_Street_Bakery) in Texas. I have one of their cakes sitting in my kitchen (although I didn’t purchase it myself.)
Or the Claxton Fruitcake Company, from Claxton, Georgia ([www.claxtonfruitcake.com](http://www.claxtonfruitcake.com)) I grew up just down the road from this factory, and have no idea whether the cake is even edible, but it’s ubiquitous in stores around here from about Halloween through New Years Day.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/59 "2009-12-29T13:51:10Z")
I’ve merged **zeno** ’s thread (posts 48-58) into the existing fruitcake thread.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-fruitcake-i-dont-care-who-knows/522175/60 "2009-12-30T01:31:45Z")
Huh, nothing.
I always thought that the superimposition of two fruitcake threads would result in cataclysmic detonation.
Guess I was wrong about that.
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