What's so bad about fruitcakes?

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Fruitcake is more of a building material than a food, same goes for pancakes made from an improperly mixed batter.

For me, it largely depends on the friutcake as there are many types. For example, you can get cakes that have apples, cherries, pineapple etc in them and they are lovely. But the ones with dried fruits (e.g. raisins, sultanas etc) are really disgusting, purely because I am not a big fan of dried fruits because of their appearance, taste and texture. The only fruits I can have dried is pear or pineapple. But otherwise, I find it to be a waste of a good friut when you dry them out. Christmas cake just looks like a mass of dead flies with their legs and wings pulled off encased in sponge. Plus it smells awful.

I don't know what fruitcake ever did to deserve its reputation. Because it is delicious, delicious, and even more delicious. It is craveable and rich and really expensive to make. I really want one!

The fruitcake myth is one of those bandwagons a couple of comedians (f**k you, Jay Leno) got started by ridiculing them from the stage (or teevee), and millions of idiots who've never had a single bite of fruitcake have mindlessly continued to regurgitate (no pun) ever since.

The truth is, there are many varieties of fruitcake made in several different ways, there's even an orange-slice cake (made with sugary orange-flavored gelatin slices) that is often passed off as fruitcake, though it isn't. They are very sugary rich, tend to be rather heavy for a confection, and depending on the syrupy and sometimes alcohol-based ingredients they sometimes come pre-soaked in, may be an acquired taste. Still, to make an across-the-board judgment that ALL fruitcake is horrible only displays your lack of experience and your closed mind. Most types are actually quite good (and as some here have noted, rather addictive), and anytime you're looking for the perfect food to go with a great cup of coffee, screw doughnuts - hack off a slab of that fruitcake - mmmmm...almost better than sex.