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Friends always send me fruitcake for christmas. No one eats it  and cant give it away either.

Fruit cake is not one of my favourites either, in fact i don't like it at all,i don't even like christmas plum pudding.I have noticed lately that the traditional wedding fruit cake is not as popular  as it once was.Must be something to do with the younger generation.

My Grandmother always made a " clooty dumplin " at Christmas time, basically it was fruit cake recipe with a few of her secret ingredients, poured into a sterilised tea cloth, tied up with string then placed in a huge pot and simmered in water for about 6hrs. It was absolutely scrumptious and would last into the New year, sliced and fried in butter, Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. Never been the same since she passed in 82.

I love fruit cake, but not the one from the shop. Homemade is best, yummmm.

Never buy them, give them, or receive them.  I've tried to eat a slice on occasion, but did not care for it.  Something tells me I could probably handle it better now.  

When i was a little girl in St. Louis, MO, my mother made a fruit cake every year from scratch.  It was the most beautiful sight seeing all those colors of fruit go into this cake.  We kids, she had 8, could not wait to taste it.  And my mother was good for making us wait to taste things.  So we were dying to eat some of that fruit cake.  And to this day . . . i love fruit cakes and cannot figure out why so many people do not like them.   And whenever i go to somebody's house during the holidays and they have a fruit cake, i feel so blessed to have a piece of it.  Of course, i know a lot of fruit cakes that walk and talk.

Not keen on them just as well no one ever sends me one!

Makes a great door stop.

It has always seemed to me that Chrismas cake, Christmas pudding and mince pies are much the same thing.

I make my grandmother's fruitcake recipe every year. I start the day after Thanksgiving and bake them, then once a week I soak them with cognac. By Christmas time they are moist and yummy. I've never had anyone return one to me. In fact, when I owned my bakery, the list for orders grew every year! Like anything else, it's the recipe that matters.

I keep it for a year and then send it back to the person who gave it to me. I hear they get better with age 

I don't much like traditional fruitcake either, I usually make my own, but no peel, no cherry's or any of the other dried fruit I dislike, I put plenty of macca's, pecans and walnuts in, lots of plonk and have it instead of plum pudding.

Not too bad with thick custard.

There are actually some good fruit cakes out there hard to find amongst all the bad, but there are some good ones and I do like the good ones.

It's also good for re-gifting...!

Love fruit cake ... Haven’t even had a forkful since I was a little girl. I have a new love - Bread Pudding.  Our bakery makes a delicious one.

witchway, your fruitcake sounds soooo good. I drool. 

In the "old days" people had Mince Pie for Thanksgiving. I loved it. No one else did. Now it never appears. I love fruit cake. In a million years I can't imagine anyone sending me one. I'd put down my address but ... well, we don't. You guys wouldn't know where to get one anyway. : D

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Fruit cakes make great door stops

HI!  Just wanted to reply to your comment on one of the math questions...I don't know how we let each other know there's a reply to someone on our own answers???  Anyway, with your niece, just keep having fun with it.  You can even take some basic stuff and substitute an unknown for one of the numbers in an equation.  One trick that works for me (and probably makes me look dumb; oh well, it works,  is: when the problem seems overwhelming, give a value to the unknown, then work the problem.  Then put the unknown back where it belongs in the answer.  It helps to have a reference like that.

Eat the fresh fruit used for making it.  You may like them better and by allmeans it's much healthier.

i love it only if it is properly made and aged!

send me your fruit cakes and mince pies, we love them! i think their wonderful. brings back some great memories of grandma!

" I've replaced my bass boat anchor with one."

 I tried a fruitcake cookie a few years ago that I thought was exceptional.

invite friends over, give each a piece of the fruit cake and have a fantastic food fight!!!!

Fruitcakes and Mince Pies are the most hated things for me to eat.  They don't look good.  They don't taste good, and they don't even sound good.  I totally agree with the questioner.

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I LOVE fruit cake and can you believe it? I’ve never been given one at all. Talk about disappointment…...