# 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:** 2
**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 6, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/21 "2013-12-06T01:44:10Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 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… Give! Give! 🙂 I have a recipe from an ancient NYT Cookbook. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/22 "2013-12-06T01:56:05Z")
Forced to eat Clackston between 1950-1965. Respect myself too much to continue today. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/23 "2013-12-06T03:51:35Z")
We need an Other option! I’ve never tried a fruitcake I liked, or made one at all. But I’m willing to believe that somewhere out there is a fruitcake that I’d like. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/24 "2013-12-06T04:08:13Z")
You left out “I love it, but have become allergic to walnuts and pecans and can no longer enjoy the awesome-ness that is a well-made fruitcake, woe is me!” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/25 "2013-12-06T04:11:04Z")
Rhubarb and peanut fruitcake with a dash of cilantro is fantastic. ---
**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 6, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/26 "2013-12-06T04:32:28Z")
Someone posted a recipe in a thread a few years back. I copied it and will repost it later. It’s quite involved and takes most of a week IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/27 "2013-12-06T04:47:02Z")
I love it, but don’t buy it, just make it. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/28 "2013-12-06T04:54:43Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > 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. Yes, that’s the one! It’s on my Christmas list, and I can’t wait to get it! ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/29 "2013-12-06T05:01:39Z")
A nice cuppa and some fruitcake. One of life’s simple pleasures. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/30 "2013-12-06T05:07:16Z")
I love fruitcake. And yes, another vote here for Collins Street Bakery. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/31 "2013-12-06T09:45:25Z")
I can’t vote, you do not have an option for love it, make it and refuse to buy it. Homemade fruitcake can be marvelous if you get the right recipe. commercial stuff sucks if you don’t like the artificially colored fruit bits. I use my own candied peels, dried fruits and nuts that are not loaded with artificial crap. I freeze orange, lemon and lime peels until I have enough and then spend a Saturday making my own candied peels and ginger strips. Leftover syrup from candying can be used for other projects now that it is heavily flavored/scented with citrus and ginger. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/32 "2013-12-06T11:58:17Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > We need an Other option! I’ve never tried a fruitcake I liked, or made one at all. But I’m willing to believe that somewhere out there is a fruitcake that I’d like. Yep, this fits me as well. And I’ve wasted too much money already trying different ones, so I gave up. I don’t think I have the energy to make one. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/33 "2013-12-06T12:47:57Z")
I love fruitcake but I don’t care a whole lot for ones with a lot of nuts, so I think those ones from Collins Street would probably not suit me, even though I am in Texas and could actually go there. I used to get one that I think was made by Hostess; it was a small loaf about 1 x 2 x 5". I loved it because it had a lot of fruit and it was small enough that I could eat the whole thing and not feel guilty. Since I knew no one else who liked fruitcake that was important. Now I have one friend who likes fruitcake too so we split one when we find a good one. It is important to find a nice moist one, since they are quite high in calories and you don’t want to waste all those calories on something not wonderful. Last year, wierdly enough, I found the best fruitcake I’d had in years at the Big Lots. Really, it was good. Now I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/34 "2013-12-06T15:42:18Z")
You don’t have enough options in the poll for me to vote. My answer is “I will eat it if it’s done right.” I don’t buy it because I’ve never found one that I like from a store. I don’t make it because; well just because it’s not something I’m interested in making. A colleague of mine makes it, and it’s awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/35 "2013-12-06T19:38:27Z")
I make it but don’t buy it. I like to make a dark sherry soaked fruitcake with pecans, crystallized ginger, dried cherries, and raisins. Dark, spicy, boozy, sharp. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/36 "2013-12-06T19:46:31Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > 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. If this had been an option I would have picked it. Mama made icebox fruitcake that was a lot like date/nut roll and was almost a candy instead of a cake. The baked kind remind me too much of Grandmama’s things that were the rave of all but me. That Claxton stuff is just like hers and I detest it. ---
**Author:** ![tadtooornamental](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@tadtooornamental](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tadtooornamental)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/37 "2013-12-16T02:16:37Z")
I voted “I can go either way”, but that’s not the whole story. I’m not really interested in it, but I’ll eat a piece. I make it every year, though, because my father adores it. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/38 "2013-12-16T08:10:09Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I used to get one that I think was made by Hostess; it was a small loaf about 1 x 2 x 5". I loved it because it had a lot of fruit and it was small enough that I could eat the whole thing and not feel guilty. > > Now I’m hungry. Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/39 "2013-12-16T13:14:13Z")
Also no option for never having tried it. I think we got a small one in a box one year (something like a McDonald’s pie size), but we didn’t find it until a month later and I wasn’t sure if I should try it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602/40 "2013-12-16T14:02:12Z")
I didn’t vote, because I love it, but neither make it nor buy it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fruitcake-poll/675602.md?page=3)