BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 05:59 AM

Pour liquid nitrogen over the cake.

Lob it to a cricketer......

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: CamiSu
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 02:35 AM

My dear departed husband taught me ti eat grilled Peanut Butter & Jelly, though not with THAT MUCH butter!

And my fruitcakes are good! (and all gone)

CamiSu

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: CET
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 03:06 PM

Charmion, actually, on CET's computer ...

Thanks to Joe Offer, we bought a little piece of Trappist fruitcake at the butcher's the other day -- there's a Trappist community in Oka, down the road a piece from here. Purty good fruitcake. The ingredients include tomatoes and tomato juice, which rather surprised me. It is also leavened, so it's softer, sweeter and altogether meeker than mine, but still purty good. Despite the green cherries ...

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 02:26 PM

Let me explain again. The home made stuff I bet is great. That is except if my mom made it ...

It is the cheap, dried up, and yet still expensive variety that I am talking about. Normally those things look like hard tack that the civil war soldiers use to have to eat at camp.   You could club a seal with the thing ..

Now that is a big difference.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 01:58 PM

Was delayed making my cake this year and since we have stuffed ourselves silly over Christmas we have decided that the cake will be put away and fed until next year. The Duck Christmas cake 2009 will certainly be worth waiting for!

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Genie
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 08:14 PM

I've had some really delicious commercially available fruitcakes - probably not from the supermarket - but they are not at all cheap (even without the shipping).   They can be one of the most expensive gifts to order from the mail order specialty catalogues.   
The good ones are quite moist (unless your predisposition to despise them leads you to leave them untouched for months till one day in August you smoke some good stash and finally get around to the old fruitcake after eating everything else in sight). They usually contain dried fruit, pecans, walnuts, etc. and are more fruit than cake.
I'll add that they're incredibly fattening!

As for weiner dogs turning up their noses at them, heck, I question the gourmet discrimination of any critter that eats the chunks out of the cat's litter box. ; D

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: fumblefingers
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 09:08 PM

I like fruit cake, particularly if it came from the Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas. Good stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Charmion
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 01:24 PM

Hmmm -- chokingly dry, tasting of burnt raisins -- yep, a supermarket fruitcake. The Marks & Sparks version boasts that expensive top layer of marzipan to add that element of snare and delusion.

Fruitcake is one of those traditional foods that cannot be made well on a commercial basis -- too much work, and if it's going to be good you have to use lots of the most expensive ingredients. (It shares this status with hollandaise sauce and tripe Lyonnaise.)

Now, even a supermarket fruitcake can be improved by soaking in good-quality dark rum or whiskey -- use a sweet-tasting variety such as rye (Canadian), bourbon, or Jack Daniel's. Pour the liquor on top of the cake and wrap it up for a week. Taste, and repeat the treatment if it's still chokingly dry. The booze should do something about the taste of burnt raisins, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 11:20 AM

"Christmas Fruitcake Recipe"
{Something to save for the next year!}

Items Needed:
4 Oz. Fruit Bits
1 Railroad Tie
Wood Saw
Large Rubber Mallet
Safety Goggles

WEAR YOUR SAFETY GOGGLES. (Children: Get help
from an adult!) Cut a one-foot section from the middle
of your railroad tie. The resulting block of wood should
be the size and shape of a loaf of bread.

Then, take some fruit bits and pound them into the
block with your rubber mallet. Spread the colors around,
or you might wind up with an ugly fruitcake. Don't be
afraid to throw some elbow grease into that mallet!
Good fruit bits should be much harder than the railroad
tie, so you can't break anything.

For best result, you should pre-treat the fruit bits by
setting them on top of your garage for a year (or by
microwaving them on HIGH for 30 minutes).

Finally, cover it tightly in plastic wrap, and give your
loved ones the timeless and enduring gift of fruitcake!

[Pleased to be of assistance to everyone!]

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 11:06 AM

Maybe I have been trying the wrong christmas fruit cake. Chokingly dry and taste of burnt raisins. And that was Marks & Sparks.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 04:01 PM

Reminds me of the butter grilled Elvis sandwitch, below. (But, it is said he preferred bacon fat to butter).


http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/recipes/main_pbsand.html

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 01:15 PM

Anyone who would fry fruitcake in butter would slather butter on a hunk of brie. My gall bladder quavers in terror at the very thought. Christmas cake cheese ... ditto.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 04:01 PM

I quite like the idea of frying slices in butter. Maybe sprinkle some cinnamon on?

I saw in Sainsbury's they had christmas cake cheese in the deli counter. Did not fancy that at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Charmion
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 11:47 AM

Yes, Virginia, there is a fruitcake under the marzipan and icing of a Christmas cake. If you call it fruitcake, you have permission to eat it all year round -- though personally I consider it winter food, for consumption on dark, miserable Sunday afternoons with a large cup of tea and a good book.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 09:59 AM

Fruitcake is an art. When mixed with egg yolks, glue, sawdust and charcoal it makes an enduring medium one can pour in molds to make statuary or let dry and sculpt with chisles.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: goatfell
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 09:42 AM

east them

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 26 Dec 08 - 02:26 PM

in UK is Christmas cake same as fruit cake? Only with marzipan and white frosting?

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: GUEST,Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 26 Dec 08 - 02:25 PM

RangerSteve, have you never tried candied citrus peel? The rind of the lemon is actually sweeter than the juice and pulp, though the flavour is not as strong. Grapefruit rind candies best. Orange rind is bitter raw, but that bitterness leaves as it is cooked.

BTW, you don't eat the peel and throw the rest away, you use it ALL.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Dec 08 - 01:26 PM

A good fruitcake contains both candied citron (a kind of melon) and the grated rind of oranges and lemons, as well as their juices. Some people also add candied orange rind. Those who turn up their noses at these ingredients are merely leaving all the more for those of us who have tastebuds of discrimination and discernment.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 Dec 08 - 05:12 AM

just imagined how well they could have cooked it, if they'd discussed the recipe!

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Dec 08 - 03:20 AM

I bought a fruitcake from Trappist monks this year. I thought it was the best I've ever had.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: RangerSteve
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 08:57 AM

I never understood fruitcake. It has citrus peels in it. Nobody willingly eats peels. You throw them away and eat the rest. But for some reason, at Christmas, you save the peels and put them in a cake. That's like making chicken soup with bones but no actual chicken. Putting booze in the cake is probably just a way of getting the recipient drunk so that he doesn't notice he's eating ingredients that should have been thrown away.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Charmion
Date: 24 Dec 08 - 10:20 AM

I just finished another batch of three, all of which are spoken for and eagerly anticipated.

Why is store fruitcake so vile? Because the proportion of flour to fruit is much too high, and the egg and butter level way too low. Also, it's innocent of alcohol.

Good fruitcake is fiendishly expensive to make, and you can tell by the price of the stuff at the supermarket that it's cheap and nasty in every sense of that phrase.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 24 Dec 08 - 07:19 AM

Ask Les in Chorlton, and Spleen - in fact, it all got a bit fruit cake back in the day, when marzipan just wasn't an option...

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Naemanson
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 11:06 PM

Send them to ME! I haven't eaten fruit cake in a long time and I miss it.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 07:36 PM

LOL

this is great thank you ... I have loads of ideas now

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 07:30 PM

Dan! I've found a Fruitcake Monastery...

That's no fruitcake monastery! That's the technicians at True Temper's wheelbarrow division converting unwanted fruitcakes into pucture-proof wheelbarrow tires.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 07:18 PM

Well I just fed mine its daily dose of brandy. We will probably cut it on Boxing Day and believe me eating it will be no chore. And Giok I do recall one of my cakes did actually become a member of Mudcat but sadly is no longer with us!

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 06:57 PM

History and recipes

http://www.learn-america.com/stories/storyReader$1966

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 06:14 PM

Dan! I've found a Fruitcake Monastery...

...Look!

:0)



Apparently, they used to make concrete blocks...Honest... :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 05:51 PM

I wish you hadn't started this thread, Dan...I keep getting the strangest visions of things you can do with a fruitcake.

Visions which I really don't think I'm even old enough to have!! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 05:43 PM

Hockey pucks
now that is thinking ... if I can find a knife sturdy enough to cut through the critter

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 05:17 PM

Slice it up, and use the slices as hockey pucks. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 05:05 PM

To hell with shoes....toss a fruitcake at the politicians!

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: astro
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 12:05 PM

If I ever get a fruitcake, I'll keep it in the fridge on the chance that we are hit with a 8 magnitude earthquake and we lose power, it'll be that one bit of food we could live off of for the weeks we are on our own...of course, starvation maybe prefable...I could give it to the looters which would immediately stop the looting...make them law-abiding folks...or....

loan it to the local mafia who could attach it to their most recent foes to sink them in the local lake...a fruitcake overcoat...

BTW, please don't take this as a plea for a fruitcake...

astro

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 11:35 AM

Can one get a Chinese made fruit cake....with melamine on the side?

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 11:32 AM

Buy a professional defruiting kit. It costs somewhere around $120, and can be ordered from somewhere in California.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 11:28 AM

Last night Jay Leno of the Tonight Show said that he discovered that a fruitcake makes a great alternative Duraflame log- burns for hours, he said.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: TheSnail
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 10:37 AM

You could write a song about it but it's already been done.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: theleveller
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 10:15 AM

I'm eating a wonderful piece of fruitcake right now. I made it myself at the weekend with Hobgoblin beer - it would be even better if I had a bit of Wensleydale cheese to eat with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 09:54 AM

How do you tell the difference between a fruitcake and a bowling ball?



The bowling ball is the one with three holes in it.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: theleveller
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 09:11 AM

Drill a suitably-sized hole in the top and it will make a great Christmas tree stand.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: MaineDog
Date: 23 Dec 08 - 08:52 AM

I'm thinking of all the cuttings of Angel Wing Begonias and rubber plants that I am going to pot some day -- if someone would send me a fruit cake I could poke holes in it and insert my cuttings, that would make matters a lot easier.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Skivee
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 11:38 PM

I know folks who use them to pound in circus tent stakes. You need to be careful to not ding up the ends of the stakes too much.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: JennieG
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 11:31 PM

Well....I like fruitcake. I was brought up on it. My maternal grandmother was a superb cook (especially her cakes, tarts and pies all of which she cooked in a wood stove oven) and made a wonderful boiled fruitcake; everyone in the family had one of Nanna's cakes for their birthday cake.

And now our No 1 son has got himself a lovely girl who is also a superb cake maker - whoo hoo!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Joe_F
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 09:46 PM

I take care to have a fruitcake every Christmas, but I suppose it is largely an excuse for brandy & hard sauce.

Some other excuse, or vehicle, foods: escargots (for garlic sauce); waffles (for sour cream & maple syrup); toast (for butter & orange marmalade).

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 08:28 PM

Maeve
OH home made is a different story entirely, I bet it is wonderful..

The ones from the store that are 70 lbs are so so dry, The fruit inside is like rubber. I am amazed at how bad they are and they last of years and years.   I had a neighbor in PA that made her own and you are right , absolutely wonderful she had all kinds of things in it and it was just moist and wonderful ... I don't know what the store brands puts into those things but it is kinda like my mom's cookies ... dangerous

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: maeve
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 08:06 PM

FYI: There do exist a few recipes for delicious fruitcakes. My family has such a recipe and nobody has been sorry to get one of our cakes or to eat it.

The pecans are usually expensive and scarce (we only use those that are sweet, fresh, plump and golden) and I prefer it with dried, not candied fruits: sweet cherries, apples, and slightly sweetened cranberries alongside the pecans and dates (in place of the usual very sweet and oddly colored candied pineapple and cherry pieces.) Other nuts can be used. Brushing the finished fruitcakes with brandy or rum can add a nice flavor and keep them tasting fresh longer, but it's optional.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 07:53 PM

there are actually people who enjoy these things, that is amazing
wow .... to each their own I guess... I wonder however what would happen to a person who ate a big piece of one and then drank 2 cups of coffee. I bet they would swell up so large they could not fit through the door ...

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 07:38 PM

A better link to the fruitcake lady


http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,search,fruitcake+lady,i,1.aspx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 07:36 PM

Why not ask the fruoit cake lady?

http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,339538348.aspx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 07:06 PM

Maeve
Holy Cow, you are right only in Maine !!!

Wow, maybe they will take mine

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Riginslinger
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 06:47 PM

In the US we elect Fruit Cakes to public office, but that's a spendy way to get rid of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: maeve
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 06:26 PM

Dan, Dan, Dan... Do I have a link for you!

Fruitcakes wanted...for real!

Only in Maine!

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 05:47 PM

A new Stephen King Christmas story ...
"and the little children woke up christmas morning to find

a gift wrapped Fruit Cake under the tree"


the horror the horror, now that would make a kid want to be good for Santa

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 05:40 PM

I can see it now, people sitting around saying, what should we get dan this year ... then the reply ... why that no good so and so
lets get him a fruit cake

I could tie them to my shoes and then I won't slip on the ice and I bet it would not damage the cake in any manner

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 05:29 PM

You could tie them on to your shoes, Dan...and get a whole new perspective of the world.

Handy in the snow. :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 05:18 PM

Bin food. Is ALL I do with them.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 05:04 PM

Lizzie
you are right, instead of a lump of coal, I get fruit cakes
what did I do wrong ....

people are mad at me

sniff sniff ... sigh

why not send me hot dogs, frozen hot dogs .. nope get fruit cakes

I am thinking they may be great for that canadian sport called curling. When they sail the big rock down the ice with the little brooms and stuff.. Use the fruit cake instead .. now that is an idea

afterwords the loser gets to eat it .. then it can be called hurling

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 05:00 PM

Fruit cakes are like a sneeze, there is only one in the world, and it passes from person to person.
When it's your turn, you get it, whether you want it or not.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 04:49 PM

You could always send them to Jimmy Buffet.......

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 04:48 PM

Awwwww.....poor little guy, Dan ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Ernest
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 04:38 PM

Nobody invented fruitcakes, LH.

The proof is that no one ever admits it.

There is a theory that evolution is responsible for them:

They are actually dinosaur turds that were to stubborn even to petrify.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 04:38 PM

Heavy I mean why would someone mail these things to me. .. I bet the shipping was as much as what I paid for some of the desktops that went out to people in need. Gold doesn't have that weight. Little Hawk you are absolutely right. I have 3 weiner dogs and they won't eat a crumb of it. Nor will my fat black lab who will eat anything and i mean anything.

I dropped the darn thing and it missed my foot by an inch. I would have broken a toe ...

Why? What is the purpose of them?
I think the other post is correct, there is only 7 of them on earth and people just pass the darn things around this time of the year.

I often wonder what I did to piss people off so that they would think wow, Dan would really enjoy a fruit cake for christmas

I must have been a bad boy

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 04:27 PM

Generally speaking, one can get rid of any unwanted food by giving it to the wiener dog, with one caveat: he may throw it up all over the carpet shortly after devouring it. They'll eat almost anything, but they're not always so good at keeping it down.

One exception, however, is fruitcake. Most wiener dogs are not completely stupid and even those that are will not eat much, if any fruitcake. They will sniff at it cautiously, drag it around the room a bit, break off some small pieces, chew them and then spit them out on the floor, stare at the resultant mess with a look of mild disgust, then toddle off to their favorite resting spot, utter a deep sigh, and flop down for a snooze.

So one still has the fruitcake to dispose of, only it's been spread around some.

I think that a large number of fruitcakes could be used to build a small hut, such as an outdoor storage hut. It would be almost impervious to weather and could serve as a fallout shelter in case of a nuclear attack. One could eat little bits off the interior walls while waiting for the outside radiation to subside and could probably survive for months...providing one had water, a good supply of laxatives, and an absolutely castiron digestive system.

Who invented the damn things is what I want to know? I bet it was the English.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 04:19 PM

More like Dundee cake Comrac.
You can tell the difference, Dundee cakes have their nuts showing.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 04:18 PM

Sweets to the sweet,
And nuts to the nuts,
And fruitcake....?



A

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Comrac (troll alert contact max)
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 04:15 PM

There are one or two fruitcakes on this site as well !

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 04:09 PM

Can't do that Dude!!! I've already notified Wavy that you're sending him a fruitcake! Really! Check the thread............

Evil and Nasty, I remain,
Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 03:57 PM

Now that is a good use for fruit cake
yup ... I have a leaky sink upstairs, gonna give er a try

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Tig
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 03:55 PM

A true story

My then boyfriend was working on the North Sea oilrigs and had been to see me just after Christmas. As it was a long way to where he had to catch the helicopter back to the rig my mum gave him a large chunk of her homemade Christmas cake and a flask of coffee.

It was essential he made it back down south that night or he would lose a fortnight's work but on the way the radiator went on his car. There were no garages near and he had no radweld with him ........

He took the cake, broke it into pieces and stuffed them into the radiator filler hole, following it with the coffee. This held for the seventy odd miles he still had to travel - with no drainage from the radiator! He made it back to the 'copter just in time to get back to the rig.

However my mum (who was an excellent cook) refused to give him cake to 'take away' ever again.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 02:55 PM

Send them to the Middle East as gifts to celebrate the end of Ramadan.

It weil completely unman any terrorist impulses.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: MMario
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 02:49 PM

There are seven fruitcakes. When the last fruitcake is eaten, the universe ends.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 02:41 PM

Encourage it to join Mudcat, where it would feel right at home with all the other fruitcakes.

¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 02:28 PM

Re-gift it.

There is a theory that there is actually only one fruit cake that keeps getting passed along year after year. Although, I have seen people eat it so that probably isn't true. There must be at least two.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Gurney
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 02:24 PM

Eat it. Pass wind.
Fruitcake affects a person!

Quote (another one) from a TV show:
"I'll give it to the birds."
"Not if you want them to fly!"

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 02:24 PM

Spaw
you always make me laugh

thank you

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 02:07 PM

Mix crumbled with Vanilla Icecream and a tiddly splosh of Rum for... Fruity Boozey Icecream.

Make truffles with the dried crumbs.

Crumble into pancake mix, and make those nice little fat pancakes (I call them 'drop scones') that you eat with butter dripping from them.

Crumble into plain Muffin Mix...

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 02:01 PM

Slice them and fry the slices.

Or hang them on a tree for the birds to work on.

Myself, I like a solid fruit cake. Cakes should give you something to get your teeth into.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 01:50 PM

Pack with explosives and use on the 4th of July.....the fruit makes pretty colors.

Carve little woodland creatures.

Drill wee tiny holes in each one and send to Wav for sex toys.



Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 01:47 PM

Doorstops. Paperweights. Ballast for ships.

Subject: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake
From: olddude
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 01:41 PM

Every year at christmas time I get a couple of "Fruit Cakes"
you know the things that like plastic will never decompose and will remain after all human life is rendered extinct. The ones that weight in at 75 lbs but are only 3 inches long. One time I tried to actually eat one ... that was a mistake. So I ask, is there any other uses for the annual holiday plastic wrapped , can sealed circular holiday "Fruit Cake"