Fruit Cakes

“I love them.
anyone else.”

“I don't think they're to bad, but I can't eat tons of it. On the other hand, I can eat a whole lot of Pumpkin Cheesecake, Poppy Seed bread, and chocolate.”

“Hate 'em. Can't eat something that looks like it weighs more than me.”

“I make a great pumpkin cheesecake.”

“I'm eating pumpkin swirl cheesecake right now!!!

Baume66 loves fruitcake.

I like it.”

“Fruitcakes Jimmy Buffett, Amy Lee

Fruitcakes in the kitchen
Fruitcakes on the street
Struttin' naked through the cross walk
In the middle of the week

Half baked cookies in the oven
Half baked people on the bus
There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us

Paradise - Lost and found
Paradise - take a look around

I was out in California
Where I hear they have it all
They got riots, fires and mud slides
They got sushi in the mall
Water bars and Brontosaurs
Chinese modern lust
Shake and bake life with the quake
The secret's in the crust

Chorus

We lost our Martian rocket ship
The high paid spokesman said
Looks like that silly rocket ship
Has lost it's cone-shaped head

We spent ninety jillion dollars
Tryin' to get a look at Mars
I hear universal laughter
Ringing out among the stars

Fruitcakes in the galaxy
Fruitcakes on the Earth
Strut naked towards eternity
We've been that way since birth

Half baked cookies in the oven
Half baked people on the bus
There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us

Religion, religion.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

Where's the church, who took the steeple
Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people
Television preachers with bad hair and dimples
The God's honest truth is it's not that simple

It's the Buddhist in you, it's the pagan in me
It's the Muslim in him, she's Catholic ain't she?
It's that born again look, it's the wasp and the Jew
Tell me what's goin on, I ain't got a clue

Here come the big ones - Relationships -
We all got 'em, we all want 'em. What do we do with'em?

She said you've got to do your fair share
Now cough up half the rent
I treat my body like a temple
You treat yours like a tent

But the right word at the right time
May get me a little hug
That's the difference between lightening
And a harmless lightening bug

ChorusThe future - Captain's log - Star date 2000 and somethin'

We're seven years from the millennium
That's a science fiction fact
Stanley Kubrick and his buddy Hal
Now don't look that abstract

So I'll put on my Bob Marley tape
And practice what I preach
Get Ja lost in the reggae mon
As I walk along the beach

Stay in touch with my insanity
Really is the only way
It's a jungle out there kiddies
Have a very fruitful day”

“that's right, i love it. best trail food going.”

“My mom always makes fruitcake cookies for the holidays. I look forward to them all year.”

“I knew I wasn't the only one.......fruit cake lovers unite.......fruit cake on the trail is very, very, very......just let me say ou la la”

“i like pumpkin swirl cheesecake alot too!

i'm making a pumpkin bread pudding with homemade caramel sauce thursday. it is top notch!”

“fruitcake forever!!!!!!!!”

“You aren't alone. I love fruit cake and look for it to starting coming out on the shelves during the holidays! In fact a few years ago I was featured in a article that our local paper did about pros and cons of fruit cake!”

“I need some now!”

“oooo, yum. I just got a recipe for sweet potato bread with cranberries and raisens, can't wait to try it toasted with honey.

My favorite holiday goodie has to be Turkey skin. That's right, I'm a vulture when the bird comes out of the oven. Horrible stuff for you but oh, so tasty!”

“that "ooo yum" was directed towards Baume's pumpkin bread pudding.”

“I love mince meat pies..........yum”

“We got a recipe from a restaurant a few years ago that served sweet potato biscuits. I think they conveniently left something out of the recipe because they didn't come out near as good as theirs. They were yumbalicious!”

“Mince meat is vomit. Hey, Bit, mind sharing that Pumpkin Cheesecake recipe?”

“YAMbalicious”

“you hurt me....ahhhhhh”

“Sorry buddy, I just can't agree on the whole mince meat thing.”

“I can't bring myself to try mince meat pie!!! ICK..(turns green)”

“you hurt me......ahhhhhhh”

“BUT, I hate breakfast. I have to eat breakfast on the trail and I normally just make instant oatmeal, but the time comes (sooner rather than later) that I just can't stomach it. That's the time for a fruitcake breakfast.

Sometimes I eat it for lunch. I don't know if you're like me, but I'm always running out of lunch ideas. I have the standard trail mix and fruit leather, also hard salami sliced on peanut butter and pita bread - NO, NO, try it. trust me. Sometimes fruitcake hits the spot here.

In the village (Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada) where I teach there is a bakrery that hasn't been take over by the servants of Moloch (our village butcher had to close). They make fruitcake as a fundraiser for the local Optimists and that is why I bought it the first time. Thus I am serving a good cause while making my trail diet a little less monotonous.

Happy trails.”

“Sure, newgie no problem. But I'll have to wait until I get home to post it. I can recall most of it from memory, but I'd be afraid of missing something important.

Do you have a springform pan?”

“AAAhhh Frog...oops I mean Fog...it is nothing personal.”

“Yep, sure do Bit.”

“...the only fruit cakes I know about are the ones you see wearing loafers, poom-poom pants and have a slight wiggle to their walk...and Jello Dog admits to eating them...dude...are you OK?”

“thanks for asking loop.........crazygurl, just once for me l please?”

“OK good. This recipe makes a huge cheesecake. My pan is a 9", so sometimes the middle comes out a little soft. If yours is a 10", then I think it work better. But a 9" will work too.”

“Sooooory...can't do it...!!!”

“Tell me...exactly what is it? Is it actually meet?”

“I have a 9, it will just have to do :>)”

“it's apples, pears, raisins, cinnamon”

“ARE YOU SERIOUS????? WHY THE...DO THEY CALL IT MINCED MEAT???? YOU MEAN ALL THESE YEARS I HAVE BEEN AFRAID TO TRY IT AND IT IS FRUIT....GEEEEEZ...I AM THINKING IT IS LIKE LIVERMUSH!!!!

(rolls eyes shakes head and feels stupid)”

“you are a dope....haha”

“Yep..but I'm a cute dope!”

“then, thats all that matters, cutie”

“the hottest chicks love mince meat :>)”

“Yeah, but it still tastes like vomit.

Bit, I have a 9" pan, but I'm going to make it at Grammie's house, maybe she has a 10". I actually have my own recipe for a Pumpkin Cheesecake w/ Pralines, but it's a pretty long and ardous recipe, so maybe I can speed stuff up w/ a different recipe.”

“Yes, my last post was chock full of jolly fun for you dirty-minded TT'ers...lol...”

“No meat in mince meat pie? No way. My Mom and her Mom and her Mom's Mom used chopped beef in their mince meat pie.”

“OK newgie. I think the recipe was originally for a 10" pan, because sometimes I end up with more cream cheese filling than I can get in there. But really, it won't matter, it works out well anyway.

This is a pretty simple recipe, mostly just mix the stuff in a big bowl with a mixer, pour it in the crust, and bake. The hardest part is making the graham cracker crust, and that's not real hard.”

“My mother would always by the mince meat in the condensed block. I had the job of reconstituting it in water in a pan on the stove & bring it to a boil. Mother wasn't happy when I stood by the stove and said iw looked like dead flies! :-)”

“mince meat pie is fruit filled!”

“Ok...who do I believe the Frog or all you meat eatters???? Dead flies????”

“meat and fruit. raisins and apples, cinnamon and some other spices. I hate it.”

“crazygurl.....go to the store, in the baking section and look for mince meat filling ( usually in a jar ) or go to the freezer section and look for a mince meat pie and read the ingredients!”

“Okie Dokie!!”

“.....it will be all so easy when you discover I am telling the truth!
P.S. I am not a troll :>)”