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  • Fruit Cake – Only for Old People?!
  • woodlikesbeer
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    My (Serbian) wife has never come across fruit cake except at a farmers market in England. She spots me eating a slice of fruit cake (Usborne First Cookbook recipe) and accuses me of being an old man! According to her only old people eat fruit cake.

    Is fruit cake age-specific?

    grum
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    She has a point.

    jam-bo
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    Were you having it with a nice cup of tea…

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    mike_p
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    Fruit cake rocks, end of

    (okay, I am the other side of 40)

    slowoldman
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    Only for old people? I love fruit cake.

    Oh hold on 😕

    pondo
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    I love fruit cake, but the point is, I also did when I was young. 🙂

    fasthaggis
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    Is this another “We are breaking up ” thread ?

    wwaswas
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    Fruit Cake is for everyone.

    It is the finest non-bread baked product that the human race has developed.

    Ecky-Thump
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    Fruitcake in one hand, big chunk of cheese in t’other. Nibble alternately.

    iamconfusedagain
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    I have only really got a taste for it in my 30s, thats not really old though is it?

    I totally ignored it when I was a kid, but now its my favourite, but only home made. I miss my mums version 🙁

    mr-potatohead
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    home made cheesecake made with guiness and like Ecky -Thump says a big wadge of cheese, worth being old for

    lemonysam
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    Fruitcake in one hand, big chunk of cheese in t’other. Nibble alternately.

    And the tartan blanket on your lap will allow you to clear away the crumbs with no fuss.

    Ecky-Thump
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    feeling hungry now…

    hunty155
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    I’m 21 and I love fruit cake ….

    But then again I also drink ale, ride a rigid ss inbred, have a very bleak outlook on the world and regularly get called a grumpy old c**t. 8)

    So yes. For old people haha!

    twinw4ll
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    When the wife speaks it’s usually nothing of great importance, tell her to shush. 😉

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Surely fruitcake with slice of cheese on top?

    Quite why we insist on spoiling fruit cake by smothering it with marzipan and icing at Christmas is beyond me

    VanHalen
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    Quite why we insist on spiking fruit cake by smothering it with marzipan and icing at Christmas is beyond me

    you could get merry on my mothers christmas cake this year. with so much brandy in it, it needed the icing to prevent it melting the box.

    fantastic stuff.

    Yak
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    She’s wrong. There’s a whole country’s worth of great and distinctive regional fruitcakes to go through. Its a bit like beer. Black bun, lardy cake, pound cake, barabrith, threshing cake, figgy cake…..nom nom.

    Yak
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    One of these ftw, regardless of age.

    stealthcat
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    Important piece of information missing – is she younger than you? If so, then yes, fruit cake is only for people older than she is. That way, you get to eat it all yourself…

    bigblackshed
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    Is that fruit cake in a pie? Here, take my money, NOW!

    BigDummy
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    I have always liked fruit cake more than other cakes. I’m 35 at the moment.

    Yak
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    Cake in a pie aka Black Bun. Genius! 🙂
    Scottish Hogmanay traditional stuff, but probably good in any situation when a substantial cake is needed.

    slowpuncheur
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    Borrowdale Tea Bread – authentic energy product for lakes rides. Keep your High 5 and SIS crap, cake is where its at.

    bigblackshed
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    TBH, the cake and coffee stop is most of the reason I ride bikes.

    drew
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    When I was at school and spending my dinner money on ciggies (I started young) I’d arrive home starving and demolish vast amounts of fruit cake before going out on my paper round. So no, it’s not just for old people.

    rkk01
    Free Member

    Call it bara brith and slap some menyn on it 😛

    somafunk
    Full Member

    I’d love a decent home made fruit cake…especially wi a nice malt whisky.

    I’d also love a decent fit serbian wife……

    I am on the wrong side of 40 (just)…….

    Pics of both?……… 😉

    core
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    She’s right, fruit cake is for old people, so are mince pies.

    So is tea.

    grahamh
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    fruit cake, the only way to catch ‘Pink Elephants’
    (long joke for cub scouts) :mrgreen:

    mightymule
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    Fruitcake with mature cheddar. Can’t beat it.

    I may have to go to the shop now.

    woodlikesbeer
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    I have never had (or heard of) fruit cake with cheese. Is this a regional thing? Anyway I will trying it ASAP.

    No, shes older than me. I will also try the cake on the small person.

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