Most annoying Christmas food

pacific breeze · December 1st, 2005, 04:17 PM

For me, it's gotta be those awful, plastic-looking fruitcakes you buy in supermarkets. Even if I wasn't allergic to candied fruit, I wouldn't eat them.

Lobelia · December 1st, 2005, 04:20 PM

I'm thinking that fruitcake will win this thread, hands down. I want to know who eats them, and what sort of witchery keeps them *good* for years on end?

pacific breeze · December 1st, 2005, 04:24 PM

I made my own one year and it was pretty good. I used nuts and dried fruit. It disappeared pretty quickly. Maybe this year I'll make two.

LynnieD · December 1st, 2005, 04:28 PM

Yup, two words: FRUIT CAKE!!

Seriously, is it fit for human consumption??? I wonder....

Lobelia · December 1st, 2005, 04:28 PM

I didn't know people could make them. I thought they were mass produced in some secret, hellish factory, and dropped by air onto unsuspecting innocents everywhere.

LynnieD · December 1st, 2005, 04:32 PM

^^Unfortunately, yes, anyone can make them. And boy do they!

They make for a good hammer if you ever need one in a hurry, so it's not all bad. Nailing the wreathes up, the stockings, etc. And you never know when you might need a (fruitcake) brick to throw through some kids window that threw a snowball at you earlier in the day (right Moomies?)!

IheartParis · December 1st, 2005, 04:34 PM

I LOVE fruitcake--no, really, I'm not kidding. I order it from a bakery in Texas and it is to die for! Most annoying: mincemeat pie. What the heck is in there anyway?

LynnieD · December 1st, 2005, 04:37 PM

OH YEA! Mincemeat gives me nightmares!!! UGH!! Thanks for reminding me.

No comment on the fruitcake thing....

IheartParis · December 1st, 2005, 04:49 PM

Heh, heh

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Fonzarelli23 · December 1st, 2005, 04:52 PM

Hahhaha---cute cartoon Paris! And apparently fitting because I was gonna say fruitcake too. And yes, mincemeat pie scares me as well.

pacific breeze · December 1st, 2005, 04:54 PM

I really like mincemeat, but only the vegetarian kind without that nasty suet.

I make mincemeat tarts every year. It's a family tradition. Crosse & Blackwell is the best, but it's non-veggie.

I also like plum pudding if it's made with lots of brandy.

IheartParis · December 1st, 2005, 05:01 PM

ooooh, I forgot about gingerbread. Hell is made of gingerbread houses and eggnog rivers (with Carrot Top as mayor)

muchlove · December 1st, 2005, 05:48 PM

Green bean casserole. I hate it!!!! Even more than fruit cake.

A*O · December 1st, 2005, 06:03 PM

I make an icecream version of the fruitcake - mix dried/candied fruit and nuts of choice plus a slug of brandy in semi-melted vanilla icecream and re-freeze.

Nuts in their shells. Why? We eat them without shells the rest of the year.

LynnieD · December 1st, 2005, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by pacific breeze

I also like plum pudding if it's made with lots of brandy.

Oh good lord I forgot all about that too! My mom used to make it at holiday time and light that shit on fire. Used to hope it would burn the place to the ground, in the hope that she would never make it again. EECCKKK!