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

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

You know, people joke about it all the time, but I'm in the stores, and 
I'll tell you, enough people buy it... It's not my product, but I always 
need to know where it is, I'm asked several times a day.  And most seem 
to be getting it for themselves or their immediate family. So...

One year I made them with dried fruit, and gave them as gifts... and 
people were confused that it didn't have the candied fruit they were 
used to!

Anne

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

>
> 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
>