Does getting older cause you to like Fruit Cake?

[daannzzz]

http://www.endofthecommons.com/Sanded-Horehound-Drops-12oz-Prodview.html

 

[Kitty 34]

plain and simple......nope

 

[POOHsie]

My sister makes individual fruit cakes for our family members every year, and it's very good. I love Spumoni but it's close to impossible to find. One restaurant I went to had it, but it was awful (like most things these days).

A holiday candy we used to have at Xmas (can't find these days) is ribbon candy. It came in a candy box, and the candy was rippled like a real ribbon and the smallest thing could make it break. The pieces were the length of the box and about 2" wide. It was striped, like white-green-white or red-green-white. Each color had a different flavor but they were mint flavors or old-fashioned flavors.

 

[denisem]

My sister makes individual fruit cakes for our family members every year, and it's very good. I love Spumoni but it's close to impossible to find. One restaurant I went to had it, but it was awful (like most things these days).

A holiday candy we used to have at Xmas (can't find these days) is ribbon candy. It came in a candy box, and the candy was rippled like a real ribbon and the smallest thing could make it break. The pieces were the length of the box and about 2" wide. It was striped, like white-green-white or red-green-white. Each color had a different flavor but they were mint flavors or old-fashioned flavors.

Ribbon candy (my mom used to love this stuff):

http://www.russellstover.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&itemID=1131

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/...lassic_Candy/Old-Fashioned_Ribbon_Candy/65235

Vermont Country Store also has horehound candies.

 

[lustergirl]

I love fruitcake. My mom used to put rum in ours.

 

[POOHsie]

Ribbon candy (my mom used to love this stuff):

http://www.russellstover.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&itemID=1131

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/...lassic_Candy/Old-Fashioned_Ribbon_Candy/65235

Vermont Country Store also has horehound candies.

Russell Stover might have been the brand of ribbon candy mom bought. Looks like they have some fruity flavors, and it's thin like I'm used to. Vermont Country Store only has 3 spice/clove flavors and thicker.

I didn't spot the RS ribbon candy at the grocery store, that's why I thought it was gone. But there's a Russell Stover store in my area. Think I'll stop by...

Thanks!

 

[daannzzz]

"""A holiday candy we used to have at Xmas (can't find these days) is ribbon candy. It came in a candy box, and the candy was rippled like a real ribbon and the smallest thing could make it break. The pieces were the length of the box and about 2" wide. It was striped, like white-green-white or red-green-white. Each color had a different flavor but they were mint flavors or old-fashioned flavors."""
That was always Christmasy to me except that I didn't like the flavor. It just looked pretty in the dish. Still don't like it though.

 

[MickeySP]

Oh Heck no!!! But it does give me new doorstops yearly

 

[lizabu]

My grandma used to make white fruitcake and I loved it even as a child. I don't care for the dark and heavy stuff.

 

[dclpluto]

I always loved fruitcake

 

[GaryDis]

I'm in the "always liked it" camp. It's sweet, slightly chewy, and leaves sticky fingers that you get to lick off. What's not to like?

 

[Diznygrl]

Hmm, so basically horehound drops are like Ricola cough drops with a sugar coating.

 

[RedAngie]

Ribbon candy is still available around Christmas. I've already seen it in either Walmart or Target.



I've always associated ribbon candy with "old people." Another "Grandma" favorite were various hard candies, especially those Plantation ones.




Likewise, fruit cake was also always an "old lady" thing. Hated it as a kid, and even as I'm getting up in years I still despise it. My grandmother always bought an A&P Jane Parker fruit cake around the holidays.



Looks good....tastes even better my butt!!

 

[cijay]

I think it may have to do with that we (I'm in the same boat as you with fruitcake, always loved horehound) finally found someone who makes a fruitcake that we like. Only my aunt Mary's is good enough.

 

[elphaba91]

I love fruitcake and always have. In Australia (and in the UK) we have plum pudding/Christmas pudding, which is a lot like fruit cake but steamed or boiled and then served hot (after you douse it in alcohol then set it on fire, of course!) with ice cream, cream, brandy butter, brandy custard or brandy cream, or several of the above! It is possibly my favourite dessert and always has been, but my sister only started liking it a couple of years ago in her late teens. I actually spent all day yesterday making ours. Time consuming but worth it!

 

[GaryDis]

I love fruitcake and always have. In Australia (and in the UK) we have plum pudding/Christmas pudding, which is a lot like fruit cake but steamed or boiled and then served hot (after you douse it in alcohol then set it on fire, of course!) with ice cream, cream, brandy butter, brandy custard or brandy cream, or several of the above! It is possibly my favourite dessert and always has been, but my sister only started liking it a couple of years ago in her late teens. I actually spent all day yesterday making ours. Time consuming but worth it!
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Last year, for NYE, I made a related dessert that goes by a two-word name, the first of which is "Spotted" and the second of which is a nickname for Richard. My first batch came out a bit too crumbly, but the second was fine. I forget exactly which vegetable shortening I used in lieu of suet.

Sigh, the extremes I go to because, after all, this is a Disney-related, family-friendly forum.

 

[tvguy]

Grew up with fruitcake. My mom was one of 4 girls in her family, and the only one who did not do a lot of baking. Her 3 sisters always shipped us fruit cake for Christmas, and we always got a slice of fruitcake when anyone of my 15 cousins got married because they always had fruit cake as their wedding cake.
My wife didn't understand it because her step-father's idea of a good fruitcake was ANY store bought fruitcake with a pint of rum poured on it, and allowed to soak for a week.
Spumoni was always what I had for dessert when my parents took me to a fancy Italian restaurant. You can get it year round at the Spaghetti Factory chain of restaurants. I see it frequently in the store.

 

[RedAngie]

Last year, for NYE, I made a related dessert that goes by a two-word name, the first of which is "Spotted" and the second of which is a nickname for Richard. My first batch came out a bit too crumbly, but the second was fine. I forget exactly which vegetable shortening I used in lieu of suet.

Sigh, the extremes I go to because, after all, this is a Disney-related, family-friendly forum.

I wonder if I would get points or be banned if I posted a photo of a Heinz tin of that dessert product.

 

[Mizzoufan]

I sure hope not

 

[GaryDis]

I wonder if I would get points or be banned if I posted a photo of a Heinz tin of that dessert product.

I'd ban you . We tried that. It was cloyingly sweet, dripping in sugar syrup, barely tolerable. Though we do find it an amusing counter decoration. I think DH's urologist had a can in his office, too. But I'd never serve it to guests.