Do people actually EAT fruitcake?

[Imzadi]

And if you make it, is it edible enough for people to actually eat?

One year I was waitressing and serving fruitcake. When people asked me what it was, I said,"EDIBLE fruitcake!" It became the big joke of the party. Seems like everyone has run into their share of non-edible, petrified fruitcake.

So is there such a thing as Edible fruitcake?

 

[Disneyland_emily]

It's *supposed* to be edible?

Didn't know that...

I thought it was just made to be inedible...

-em

 

[chadfromdallas]

The only fruitcake I will eat is the one my grandmother buys from(pretty famous actually called "Pudding Hill" in Texas) Thing is actually pretty edible!

 

[LadyBears]

It's *supposed* to be edible?

Didn't know that...

I thought it was just made to be inedible...

-em

Same here.

 

[BeamsofLight]

I remember being tricked into eating fruitcake when I was about 7. Permanent emotional scars.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

Nope,only thing its good for is doorstops and blowing them up

 

[catsrule]

DH does, he loves the stuff. He also loves eggnog. I think they are both gross.

 

[luvthatduke]

Okkkkkkk.......
Sloooooooooowllllllllllllllllllly coming out the closet.............

My DH & I actually LIKE fruitcake!

There.
I said it.
I took the first step, which is confession.

But, I agree that there are many, many kinds
that are completely inedible.
We like the very moist ones...
Not the heavy-liqored/ hard as a rock/ candied fruit
from the back of someone's pantry kind.
And, we were blessed a few years ago to meet another
couple who share this strange fetish!

 

[KatelynnsAuntie]

 

[Sleepy]

Funny story about fruit cake.

Every year my mother had INTENTION of making fruit cake. She would buy the fruit which came in those little containers and soak them in brandy for several days. I was just a teenager at the time and never gave it much thought, but mom never made a cake. She would never seem to have the time to make it and the fruit would be thrown away right around xmas time. Please tell me my mother was not eating spiked fruit cake fruit.

 

[KM2004]

i've never had fruitcake. Maybe i'll buy some this weekend to try out...see what all the fuss is about

 

[HappyMommy2]

I love fruitcake--but only the kind that comes in gift tins from Corsicana, TX, and only one small slice once a year on Christmas Eve with a small glass of eggnog. The rest of the year, fruitcake and eggnog sound pretty yucky to me!

 

[ORD2KOA]

My mother always adapted her fruitcake recipe (left out the citron) and I adapted mine even further by leaving out the dates. I wind up with a candied red and green cherry and walnut cake. It "looks" like fruitcake, but is good enough to actually eat.

 

[powellrj]

My DF and I love fruitcake and we have turned my DH into a fruit cake lover too!! He always said he hated fruit cake, but we ask him if he had really ever tasted fruit cake and he admitted that he had never had it but knew he wouldn't like it!! Wrong, its really good if you get the expensive ones with lots of fruit and nuts!! The cheap ones are really bad.

 

[Kitty 34]

My MIL loved the stuff. Not me, tho.

 

[powellrj]

ever had a day that you just didn't get it right????

 

[Pooh67_68]

Of course fruitcake is edible just like eggnog is drinkable.

 

[Barb D]

I love fruitcake -- even the cheap kind with citron -- but I'm avoiding it like the plague this year. One teany tiny slice is 4 Weight Watchers points, and that's just not worth it to me. I can have an entire Chinese dinner on 4 points.

 

[piratesmate]

It's *supposed* to be edible?

Didn't know that...

I thought it was just made to be inedible...

-em

Nah - It's too expensive to make as a joke!

I've seen some pretty nasty fruitcakes & my mother made a truly terrible one with Brazil nuts & maraschino cherries, but I love the stuff! I have a couple really good recipes that turn out very moist & yummy. No need to soak them in brandy like my grandmother did. Of course hers was pretty excellent too!

 

[luckywife]

The fruitcake my mom used to make was pretty good. I just don't care for any of it very much. Even looking at it is a big turn off. There's plenty of other cakes that I love, fruitcake just isn't one of them.