How do you feel about fruit cake?

[RushIsRot]

I personally love the stuff, but find opinions vary widely.

[PoliticAverse]

1. I'm a fan also. n/t

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Depends on who makes it...we like it with afternoon tea during the season

[GoCubsGo]

5. Yep.

I'm not crazy about the cakes with citron in them. I prefer it be made with dried fruits, rather than candied fruits. And, soaked with lots of brandy or rum, which makes even the ones with the candied fruits taste better.

[applegrove]

3. I like dark fruit cake.

[alphafemale]

4. Claxton fruitcake is moist and tastes like spumoni.

Most others are dry, hard and blech.

[csziggy]

6. That's the only kind of fruitcake I've ever had

I thought it was OK as a child. As an adult, when my Mom & Dad finished with it, it was much better.

They'd buy it before Thanksgiving, soak it in rum for a month or more, and serve it with hard sauce - made with more rum, of course.

Children were not allowed her improved version, but my tea totaling great aunt loved it. Mom & Dad never told her their "secret" ingredients.

[RiffRandell]

7. Like Aunt Edna.

[Denninmi]

8. Homemade is great.

Store stuff is either sawdust dry or sweet but flavorless.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. I only eat my own, with brandy and rum in it.

n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. There are a lot of kinds of fruitcake. I like some of it.

But some of it tastes like maraschino cherries in styrofoam.

[RushIsRot]

11. My mother made it and soaked it with Mogen David wine, as I remember.

After she died, I liked Claxton. The rest are blech.

[nolabear]

12. No, not really. I'm not sure I've ever had a really good one though.

Candied stuff doesn't do much for me, but the idea of rum soaked cake is appealing.

[Liberal Veteran]

13. Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy.

According to Rose Nylund.

[pipi_k]

14. People generally

think I'm a bit odd because I like it.

So did one of the raccoons the year I found a whole one in my freezer from Christmas years past.

Put it out for the raccoons...one of them ate the whole thing and gained a lot of weight. He comes around from time to time and is still fat...

[Crewleader]

15. I like you better!

Not crazy about fruit cake my friend!

[benld74]

16. Suspicious

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. I really like it

and I have wonderful memories of eating tons of it during the Christmas holidays when I was a little kid, especially the kind bathed in rum or some other kind of alcohol.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Some are great, others not so much.

[doc03]

19. Nickles Bakery here in the Ohio Valley sells fruitcake

that is very good don't know if they make it themselves or not. I've had some cheap fruitcake that is not so good.

[bluesbassman]

20. Some are annoying, some endearing, and then there's MiddleFruitcakeMom...

Accept no substitutes!

[No Vested Interest]

21. Not only do I like it, but

I'm ready for some now!
Thanks for asking.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

22. Love the nuts, don't like the candied fruit.

The Good Stuff is at Eilenberger's in Palestine, TX. Far better than the much more famous Corsicana fruitcake (Deluxe Bakery).

Eilenberger's sells pecan cake and fudge pecan cake--far more nuts and far less fruit. Kinda like eating a tasty brick!!! They also make apricot cake and other flavors--and are gonna reopen their walk in store soon, I hope!!! I used to buy cookies and bread there.



This is the place to order yummy cakes, fruitcakes and others, and support a local business:

www.eilenbergerbakery.com

[Brother Buzz]

23. I would never, ever turn down a fruitcake

Some are just alright, some are good, some are great, and an occasional one is the food of the gods. Fruitcake is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get.

[Packerowner740]

24. Don't like it.

[Wait Wut]

25. It depends.

Some are freakin' awesome and others are bricks. I like the awesome ones, but stay away from the bricks.

[840high]

26. Like.

[redwitch]

27. Mom used to send one for Christmas.

Made by the monks at Assumption Abbey in the Ozarks. So rich! Took me forever to eat it but with a strong cup of tea it is seriously yummy stuff.

[Initech]

28. Ah I've been waiting for an excuse to post this song!

[Rambis]

29. Door stop

[watch the sky]

30. mixed feelings

I like having it around but I don't like every variety of fruitcake out there.