Happy Fruit Cake Day

[malaise]

from the national fruit cake on steroids - Groper Don the Con aka real Donald Trump.

[Brother Buzz]

1. I love fruitcake

It seems to be universally lambasted from all quarters, so I say, "To Hell with them", I love it.

[malaise]

2. One of my siblings makes a great fruit cake

I pass on lots of them but good ones are delish - and today really is Fruit Cake Day

[madokie]

3. I like a good fruit cake

on another note. When I try a new, to me/us, restaurant and if they have meat loaf on the menu I try it cause it will tell me all I need to know about the cooks. Just something I've noticed over the years

[malaise]

4. Love that

For me how they cook fish is all that matters

[madokie]

7. Cool

I'm a catfish eating fool for sure. We have a couple good catfish farms that most all the local restaurants get their catfish from and I'm here to say that catfish cleaned right, rolled in cornmeal and given a hot oil bath is something to die for. Humm mmm good.

I'm getting hungry

[malaise]

11. Sounds great

Try that with Japanese breadcrumbs instead of cornmeal.

[Brother Buzz]

6. I know it's National Fruitcake Day, and it's also....

National Rotate Your Doorstop Day where you replace last years fruitcake with this years fruitcake and eat it.

Mom made fruitcake for years that put the commercial ones to shame. I got to help drizzle Scotch whisky over the cheesecloth wrapped fruitcake for the weeks leading up to the holidays. The smell memory of doing it is still strong.

The same Scotch whisky was used the make the sauce for carrot pudding grandma made in old Lipton tea tins.

[malaise]

8. Cracking up here

Didn't know that part

[madokie]

13. Man o man

now I'm thinking of bread pudding. Mom made the best bread pudding I ever ate. I haven't got my wife to try making it yet though. My wife cooks like my mom did, a little of this a bunch of that and a smidgen of something else and it always turns out to be oh so good. Always the same but at the same time always a little different.

I love that girl

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. Hate fruitcake, sorry... got any pecan pie?

[malaise]

9. No but I have pecans

[Brother Buzz]

14. No, culturally we had mince pie and used black walnuts

Grandma used to sit me down with a sixteen ounce claw hammer and set me loose on a sack of them tough black walnuts in the fall, then the pies would mysteriously appeared during the holidays - Payday!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

17. Nice Buzz!

[NightWatcher]

10. Haven't we suffered enough?

[malaise]

12. This is merely purgatory

Hell awaits post 1/20

[HeartachesNhangovers]

15. I mostly pass on dessert ...

but I like fruitcake, gingerbread, bread pudding (without sugary sauce), peach (or apricot or plum) cobbler (or crisp) - hold the ice cream, anise cookies, biscotti (especially anise), and a couple of other things. Unfortunately, in the US desserts usually have too much frosting or come with ice cream, basically too much of a good thing.

[malaise]

16. That doesn't sound like mostly passing

Looks like you love it