# The fruitcake poll **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602 "2013-12-05T21:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/1 "2013-12-05T21:09:16Z")
I happen to really like fruitcake. There’s a particular brand my family buy’s, and my mother and I also make our own, from a really old recipe. Now, I know there are those who don’t like fruitcake(although I can’t understand whY)… My brother-in-law is one of them. And Johnny Carson used to say there is only one fruitcake, that keeps getting passed from had to hand. I’ve made a poll, to see how responding Dopers feel about wonderful, wonderful fruitcake. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/2 "2013-12-05T21:15:17Z")
I love it, love it, love it! Madame P. gives me fruitcake for Christmas, Valentines Day and my birthday, and it’s always greatly appreciated. However, with the exception of my grandson, nobody else in the house will touch it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/3 "2013-12-05T21:17:43Z")
I love it, and almost always make it rather than buy it. I can substitute dates for those nasty raisins! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/4 "2013-12-05T21:29:23Z")
Three words: [Collins Street Bakery](https://www.collinstreet.com/). If you think you don’t like fruitcake, you owe it to yourself to try a real one. Of course, my wife makes a pretty good fruitcake too, but we don’t ship across country. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/5 "2013-12-05T21:31:46Z")
Glad to see there ARE other fruitcake lovers on the Dope. Have any of you bought fruitcake from the Collin’s Street Bakery, in Corsicana Texas? When my family buys fruitcake that’s where we get it from. But I have tasted others that are good. Ninjaed! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/6 "2013-12-05T21:37:47Z")
I’m going to slide this up to Cafe Society since it’s about a food. ---
**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 5, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/7 "2013-12-05T21:42:53Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I’m going to slide this up to Cafe Society since it’s about a food. No it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/8 "2013-12-05T21:43:59Z")
I’m fond of icebox fruitcake, which is rather different from your baked fruitcakes. The baked ones, I can take or leave; a good one is okay, preferably with a bit of some kind of hard sauce, but a bad one is pretty awful. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/9 "2013-12-05T21:48:59Z")
As far as I know, I’ve never had fruitcake. I loathe dried fruit, so I doubt I would have liked it then, and I can’t eat gluten so I doubt I’ll ever try it now. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/10 "2013-12-05T21:58:22Z")
I voted the second option, but I don’t go out of my way to buy it–I only have it when someone serves it to me. I think it’s a wonderful cake when it’s prepared well, along with a bit of tea. (For some reason, I associate fruit cake with tea instead of coffee, though I’m not sure why.) ---
**Author:** ![James\_Toothpaste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@James\_Toothpaste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Toothpaste)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/11 "2013-12-05T22:05:20Z")
I love fruitcake and I make my own. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/12 "2013-12-05T22:58:44Z")
I can’t stand candied fruit, and most fruitcake is made with candied fruit, so by extension, I hate most fruitcake. On the rare occasion I find some made with non-candied dried fruit, though, I have no problem with it (though it’s still not my confection of choice). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/13 "2013-12-05T23:03:18Z")
My cousin starts making hers back in about September or so. She’s bringing some to Christmas dinner. ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/14 "2013-12-05T23:06:55Z")
I love fruitcake and make my own. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/15 "2013-12-05T23:07:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I can’t stand candied fruit, and most fruitcake is made with candied fruit, so by extension, I hate most fruitcake. On the rare occasion I find some made with non-candied dried fruit, though, I have no problem with it (though it’s still not my confection of choice). Huh. I thought it was always made with candied fruit, but I see that Wikipedia says it’s also made with dried fruit. Interesting. To me, it wouldn’t be fruitcake without the candied fruit. ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/16 "2013-12-05T23:49:15Z")
A third vote for Collin Street Bakery. My parents send us one of their [pecan fruitcakes](https://www.collinstreet.com/pages/online_bakery/all_deluxe_fruitcakes) every year around Christmas time; this year’s edition just arrived, but we’re currently so inundated with leftover-from-Thanksgiving dessert items that we haven’t opened it yet. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/17 "2013-12-05T23:56:13Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Huh. I thought it was always made with candied fruit, but I see that Wikipedia says it’s also made with dried fruit. Interesting. To me, it wouldn’t be fruitcake without the candied fruit. The dried fruit is soaked for several days to rehydrate, and then brandy is added in small amounts over a longer period of time. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/18 "2013-12-06T00:13:39Z")
I only buy the one that is a 3x3 square. Can’t recall the brand, but it’s in the stores every Christmas season. More of a candy type fruitcake. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/19 "2013-12-06T00:19:50Z")
[Claxton Fruitcake](http://www.amazon.com/FRUIT-Regular-Recipe-Claxton-Fruitcake/dp/B000YGOLR8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386289111&sr=8-1&keywords=claxton+fruitcake) is the brand. Found it on Amazon. Thats the brand I’ve eaten most of my life and like. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/20 "2013-12-06T00:39:38Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > [Claxton Fruitcake](http://www.amazon.com/FRUIT-Regular-Recipe-Claxton-Fruitcake/dp/B000YGOLR8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386289111&sr=8-1&keywords=claxton+fruitcake) is the brand. Found it on Amazon. Thats the brand I’ve eaten most of my life and like. Ditto - just bought some at the commissary a couple weeks ago. (It didn’t last long.) About forty years ago I found a recipe for Fruitcake of the Twelve Spirits, so called because there are 12 kinds of booze in it. Someday I’m going to try making a batch of it… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602.md?page=2)