Question of the Day, Friday, December 17

[Kat0121]

Was it the humorist Dave Barry who wrote that there’s really only one fruitcake in the world, and it just keeps getting gifted to someone else each year?

Yup. I took this from an article he wrote.

" I have long believed that nobody actually MAKES fruitcakes. I believed that all fruitcakes were formed thousands of years ago by some kind of horrible natural catastrophe involving (1) fruit, (2) cake and (3) a radioactive meteorite. I subscribed to the widespread theory that these ancient fruitcakes had been circulating as "gifts" ever since, being passed from person to person, with nobody ever actually eating them."

My parents sometimes ate fruitcake when I was a kid . They wouldn't buy it but if gifted one they'd eat it. They never had to worry about any of us kids eating it. It was all theirs.

 

[TMcats]

Ether fruit cake or carrot cake.

 

[DreamerRose]

On the subject of fruitcake, did you all know that in the UK all wedding cakes are fruitcakes? I don't think their fruitcake is as dense as ours, but still. . .

 

[susanm9006]

On the subject of fruitcake, did you all know that in the UK all wedding cakes are fruitcakes? I don't think their fruitcake is as dense as ours, but still. . .

Reason #5733 why I am never getting married…

 

[Kat0121]

On the subject of fruitcake, did you all know that in the UK all wedding cakes are fruitcakes? I don't think their fruitcake is as dense as ours, but still. . .

I've heard that. It probably isn't. Can you imagine how much a big multi-tiered fruitcake would weigh? The bride and groom would need to rent a crane to bring it into the reception.

 

[Maria Bayote]

Never fond of cakes, but if I have to choose what I don't like, it would be chocolate cake.

 

[Tik cat's mum]

I don't think there is a cake I don't like. and if I found one I wasn't keen on I'd have to try it twice to make sure.

 

[BellaGooch]

Ether fruit cake or carrot cake.

I was just about to say this. I guess I don't like anything with any sort of nuts in it.

 

[Kat0121]

I was just about to say this. I guess I don't like anything with any sort of nuts in it.

For me it's the candied fruit in the fruitcake. Especially the cherries. Double especially the green ones.

With carrot cake, it's the fraternal twin of spice cake. I don't like spice cake.

 

[Tobermory]

Ya’ll can have your carrot cake, but I’ll take the cream cheese frosting for my brownies. (Although I just read that there’s a cream cheese shortage! )

 

[Kat0121]

Ya’ll can have your carrot cake, but I’ll take the cream cheese frosting for my brownies. (Although I just read that there’s a cream cheese shortage! )

I like cream cheese frosting too. DD likes red velvet cake. I used to make it (or cupcakes) for her and while I wasn't a big fan of the cake itself, I could eat the frosting with a spoon.

 

[TMcats]

I was just about to say this. I guess I don't like anything with any sort of nuts in it.

Nether. Nuts definitely don't go in cake

 

[Tobermory]

I could eat the frosting with a spoon.

 

[aliceneko]

Lemon drizzle and fruit cake.

 

[DownTheLane]

I dislike a lot of foods, I'm such a picky eater
I don't really like fruitcakes, anything caramel, or brownies