[Sca-cooks] One of the original fruitcakes has been admitted to ; -)

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Phlip:
>Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/22/offbeat.fruitcake.ap/index.html

This from a culture that has no problem with pickled eggs.

I'm curious as to why, and at what point, people stopped liking 
fruitcake, as a rule. I'd hate to think it was the availability of 
cheap sugar sources that spelled the beginning of the end for dried 
fruit in baking. I'd also hate to think it was a public distaste for 
things like funky-colored glace cherries and mysterious citron peel, 
because those things belong no more in a proper fruitcake (at least 
not in bulk) than holes belong in a hamburger made outside of White 
Castle, and people persist in rampant hamburger-eating in spite of 
White Castle's existence. Why is fruitcake examined under the 
microscope of its worst possible incarnation, with that incarnation 
assumed to be the norm?

So we have a product most people profess to know via 
commercial/industrial production, some of whom have never actually 
eaten it, but who have grown, from infancy, making fun of it.

And did I mention haggis is yummy, too?

Adamantius