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Does anybody EAT fruitcake?

 
 
Post: # 32,289
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:10 pm
Well, actually, I do know one person who does -- my husband. But other than him, does anyone else eat it? Or do you just throw it away or save it to give to someone else next year?

Or...perhaps you've found a better use for it?
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Post: # 32,294
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:16 pm
Definitely EAT it .... This often takes months to fully do the job, though.
Why don't you like it, Bandylu?
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Post: # 32,308
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:29 pm
Too much stuff and not enough cake.
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Post: # 32,312
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:31 pm
If you gather them all up from friends and Relatives you can get enough to use them as bricks and make a nice little BBQ out in the back yard. Very Happy
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Post: # 32,319
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:33 pm
Exellent recycling, fishin'.

Thinking about the subject, I don't think I even know anyone who's ever actually bought a fruitcake. Everybody gets them as gifts -- nobody buys them. That's pretty weird.
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Post: # 32,321
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:34 pm
Ah, but I like the "stuff".
Especially if prepared by an inspired cook & not store-bought.
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Post: # 32,324
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:35 pm
I LOVE fruitcake! You just reminded me to take mine out of the freezer for the Holidays! Yummmmmmmmmmmmm!!
Post: # 32,330
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:39 pm
I'll nibble at it if it's there, I usually eat around the green bits - what is that anyway?
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Post: # 32,331
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:41 pm
Green bits???" Shocked
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Post: # 32,333
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:43 pm
mmmm, isn't there some kind of jellied bits in fruit cake? Or am I thinking of something else?
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Post: # 32,336
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:44 pm
Misti -- I've got to ask. How long has it been IN the freezer (I'm guessing since last Christmas)?

See, that's the problem, littlek; even people who like fruitcake aren't all that sure what's in it. I don't like eating stuff when I have no idea what it might be

It's some kind of candied fruit, I think, but I'm not sure what.
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Post: # 32,338
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:47 pm
Nobody knows what that green stuff is lil k. Some kind of candied fruit, I guess, but I don't recall all that many green fruits, either.
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Post: # 32,343
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:50 pm
little k

Oh yes, now it comes back to me: those little bright green, plasticky thingoes that look like minature marbles chopped in half. What on earth are they???
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:51 pm
fig?

In Brazil everyone buys it but it tastes like children's fruit flavored toothpaste to me.
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Post: # 32,347
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:54 pm
Craven

Nasty little things they are, too!
What do they use them for in Brazil? Sounds like they're very popular.
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Post: # 32,348
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:54 pm
I think they might be marachino cherries soaked in some green dye......
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Post: # 32,349
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:55 pm
Actually, I think they may be green maraschino cherries -- I've seen them in jars in the food store (they look much better red). But then I'm not really sure.

msolga -- you call them 'plasticy' and you still eat fruitcake?????
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Post: # 32,350
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:56 pm
DING!
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Post: # 32,355
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:59 pm
Those little chunks of "stuffs" are all dried friuts.. figs, dates, apricots, currents, etc.. Yuck.. Nasty stuff.. Rolling Eyes
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Reply Sun 8 Dec, 2002 09:59 pm
And then there are the nuts!
 

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