The Ponderings of a Big Foot Buddha

2003-12-10 - 11:18 a.m.

To fruitcake or not to fruitcake

To Fruitcake or not to Fruitcake, that is the question!

So what is the deal with all the anti-fruitcake sentiment? Fruitcake is very tasty dark, rich moist and fruity. Ok it is a bit on the dense side but one shouldn’t be trying to eat an entire fruitcake in one sitting anyhow.

Ask around a bit and it seems the most loud and noticeable of the fruitcake deriders have never had fruitcake or it was so long ago that they can’t even remember what it tasted like.

The food channel had a program on about holiday treats the other night and it had a short segment regarding fruitcakes. It seems that the largest fruitcake distributor sells over 1,000,000 (yes that is 1 million) fruitcakes in the last three months of a year as Christmas approaches. That is just the one company. The three people that I know that like fruitcake (openly at any rate) don’t eat nearly that many. So what is it? Who is eating all these fruitcakes? Perhaps many of the so-called fruitcake haters are closet fruitcake lovers.

Loving your fruitcake shouldn’t have to be a hidden deep dark secret lover affair. It’s time for us fruitcake lovers to stand up, be noticed and declare our support of this wondrous dark fruity flavorful treat.

In this day and age it is a sad thing for a person to express disappointment in receiving a fruitcake when in their hearts angels sing at the mere sight of the cake and wonderful anticipation builds at the thought of tasting it later in a dark lonely empty kitchen.

The preceding is of course meant in jest but substitute nearly any minority for the fruitcake references and the meaning of the post becomes clearer. Although I still think the willfully stupid people should all be shipped off to their own little island and leave the rest of us to live in peace.

Best Wishes!

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