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Do you eat fruitcake?


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I worked at a bakery for 9 years in my younger days and I never even tried it. Not sure why. We sold a ton of it, and it was pretty expensive. 

 
GB of mine makes his grandmothers recipe every year. It's really tasty, especially with a schmear of butter :porked:

 
I keep hearing there is such a thing as a quality fruitcake. But I have also heard that there is such a thing as good haggis. I will leave it to others to explore those possibilities.

 
I keep hearing there is such a thing as a quality fruitcake. But I have also heard that there is such a thing as good haggis. I will leave it to others to explore those possibilities.
I actually did have a good fruitcake once. ONCE. But those nasty things at the stores around holiday time?  :X

 
I like my mom's fruitcake. It's one of those that's mostly nuts and hardly any cakey batter. Yeah, I still pick out at least half the candied cherries and pineapple, but I like the dates. 

I always thought it was a "normal" fruitcake and didn't get why it had such a bad reputation, but I've since tasted others that I hated, so I get it now.

 
Not to hijack the thread, but can we put mincemeat pie in this tier of nasty holiday foods? Typically it has figs and dates and stuff, unless you have an aunt that doesn’t know what goes in mincemeat pie and makes it with actual meat. Sister in law described it as “hell on a fork.”  Kinda like meat cake, only with a crust. 

 
I like fruitcake but haven't had it since I haven't seen it for probably ten years.   I'm guessing it is fading away?   I never understood why it was a thing if so few people liked it.   I used to have it at my parents house but I don't know where it came from.   Maybe some friend of the family made it and had a good recipe.   

 
Not to hijack the thread, but can we put mincemeat pie in this tier of nasty holiday foods? Typically it has figs and dates and stuff, unless you have an aunt that doesn’t know what goes in mincemeat pie and makes it with actual meat. Sister in law described it as “hell on a fork.”  Kinda like meat cake, only with a crust. 
yes, this fits

 
Snorkelson said:
Not to hijack the thread, but can we put mincemeat pie in this tier of nasty holiday foods? Typically it has figs and dates and stuff, unless you have an aunt that doesn’t know what goes in mincemeat pie and makes it with actual meat. Sister in law described it as “hell on a fork.”  Kinda like meat cake, only with a crust. 




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yeah, I'm a big fan either.  Real mincemeat pie has meat and suet though.  

I would give that a try.  

 
It's reputation precedes it so I have never had it.  Will never spend money on it.  If someone makes or brings some, I would try out of curiosity, but never have had that opportunity (apparently it's not big in New Mexico).

 
What you mean?
Imagine if you took shredded beef, figs, dates, and some sort of bbq sauce but with extra sweet something that I can’t quite identify. It was awhile back, perhaps before the internet had google. I remember seeing it and thinking “that doesn’t look like the mincemeat pie grandma makes” but who cares I go after pumpkin and apple anyway. My sister in law (actually my bros gf at the time, and her first thanksgiving with the family) got a slice, I’m not sure why really, wanted to try something she hadnt that apparently was a staple at our family thanksgiving? It’s after dinner so we’re all milling around, watching football, not at the table anymore. As the story goes, she took a bite, and looked at my brother and said “omg what is this? It’s hell on a fork!” She didn’t want anyone to see her throw it away or not eating it, so my brother took it and set it next to the couch and threw a blanket on it (yeah, great move bro.) So like an hour later, another aunt goes to put her kid down for a nap and sees the blanket on the floor and grabs it to use, and this piece of pie falls out into the floor in front of everybody. Sister in law was mortified- when my grandma, who probably knew exactly why this piece of garbage pie was hiding in a blanket says “oh, one of the grandkids probably took it and didn’t like it, it always happens with mincemeat pie.” 

 
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I've never generally been a fruitcake person, but last Christmas, I did pick up a few Claxton's from Sam's (somebody told me the Claxton's from Sam's are a lot fresher than the those from the grocery store). Anyway, for some reason, I plowed through and thoroughly enjoyed about 5 of them last Christmas (I know it was 5 because they come in 3 packs and there was one left from the 2nd round of them still in the freezer that I through out months later). 

Anyway, they were kind of awesome. Didn't pick up any this Christmas. Just kind of forgot to.

They get a bad wrap, but they can be pretty good. Don't write them off. Or do. I don't care.

 

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