I am about to make an extremely shocking admission, even for a reprobate like me. You should probably be sitting down. You might even wish to take a medicinal belt beforehand, so that the enormity of this truth I'm about to tell you doesn't send you into immediate cardiac arrest.Are you ready? OK, here goes.
I love fruitcake.
There, I said it. It's not something that very many people would admit to these days, what with the unabashed fruitcake bashing that goes on every Christmas season, but I've never been very reticent about bringing up my peculiarities, so there it is. Little fluorescent green pieces of unidentified fruit? Love 'em. Cake with the approximate equal weight to lead? Bring it on! Cherries of a red hue unfound in any part or portion of nature? I plain cannot get enough.
I realize this makes me one of an extremely tiny minority these days. Most folks seem to have no better use for fruitcakes than to launch them with catapults or other such desecrations. At best, they are used as doorstops or perhaps something with which to whack an intruder over the head.
I, on the other hand, like to eat them.
Say what you will about my tastes, or lack thereof, I just love fruitcake and it pains me every time somebody makes the blanket assertion that nobody eats them. Saying something like that makes it just that much harder for me to find one when I want one, and makes it damned near impossible to get one as a present (which I very much appreciate, by the way.) It seems that almost nobody is willing to risk incurring the wrath of the snarky jokesters who have made "fruitcake" some sort of holiday swear word.
MY WIFE used to make a really great fruitcake, but she hasn't for a few years now. This is because she lost her recipe. Oh, the tears I've shed! That was my best shot at getting fruitcake for Christmas, without having to actually buy one. My sister-in-law gave me one a couple of years ago and that was nice.
Look, if you have fruitcake that you want to get rid of, please don't hurl it into space or relegate it to anonymous doorstop duty. Send it to ME. I'd love to give it a nice home (in my belly) and I will sing your praises should you send me one. Here's an address, and you can feel free to forward it:
Suldog's Home For Wayward Fruitcakes
93 Winsor Avenue
Watertown, MA 02472
No joke - send it! Believe me, you'll build up whole bunches of karma points if you do.
3 comments:
Uncle Jimmy says:
So... you are the one! I knew there was someone out there eating "The Fruitcake." You see there is only one fruitcake and it is passed from person to person as a gift. Every so often it turns up issing and must be replaced. Now I know
Oh, I miss my Dad, whose been gone for 14 years! He used to buy each of us a fruit cake for Christmas. I'm there with you - love them! The fruiter and juicier, the better! My Mom used to make the best - in a Big pressure canner - then she would wrap them up in something - don't have a clue what she soaked them in - some people use oranges. But, those were the best! I hate the 'cake-tasting' kind. Make them dark, heavy, and juicy for me!
I knew there had to be someone, somewhere who liked fruitcake. I just never believed I'd live to see the day that person was found out. Kudos to you for standing up for what you love.
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