Enidigm
2722
The secret to fruitcake is pineapple. Brightens and lightens up the never-goes-bad calorie bomb.
I’ve gotten these from Collins Street Bakery here in Texas (https://collinstreet.com/) and found them above average and generally passing-by-take-forkfull-able.
Houngan
2723
I like fruitcake, but it has to be understood that there’s a Gump thing going on, there are good bites of it and bad bites.
I’d take a homemade fruitcake any day over the best peanut butter pie in the world.
When my family gets together on the weekend we will have three different fruitcakes (one from my brother and two from me) as well as the lebkuchen which are called German gingerbread sometimes but are really similar to fruitcake batter baked on wafers. While I don’t use pineapple like @Enidigm suggests I do think that it helps to have citrus flavor in a fruitcake. Not the flavorless bright colored candied citron but good quality candied orange or lemon can do a lot to brighten the taste.
Never had a peanut butter pie, but I’ll take chocolate pecan pie over anything.
We were at Wegmans this morning shopping and as we walked by the Claxton fruitcake my wife picked it up and said “I love this stuff”. But because we had other things we decided not to buy any.
That sounds delightful, though we all must acknowledge that all pie is inferior to cake.
I just wanted to make a quick drive-by crack about fruitcake…I did not mean to derail this thread. My apologies.
Also, the pie vs. cake debate is far too nuanced for a simple declaration of which is better. While there are a couple of cakes that are better than all pies, after that you get into certain pies being better than certain cakes, then it sort of weaves back and forth as you delve further down into the cake/pie hole.
Triple chocolate cake is God.
But pecan pie of any sort is like a whole pantheon.
I think youve hit on the key aspect. Pie exists for people who didn’t want to eat their pudding with a spoon.
All we need to complete this thread is for someone to set up a poll that includes a shit bonerz option.
schurem
2735
Huh and here I was thinking this thread was about the Dutch prime minister finally making official amends for the godawful role the Dutch state played in the drama of 18th century slavery.
Edit: oops wrong thread (lol)
Thrag
2736
This is the WTF thread! Let’s get back on topic!
What the fuck!
When you go to Iceland or an island like that, you realize people in the beforetimes were in a constant battle with death from starvation, which meant that every single little piece of an animal was eaten.
The Cornish have no such excuse. I feel like this is just them reminding the world of how fucking weird and tough they are.
Is that starry-gazy pie? I read about starry-gazy pie, I think maybe in an Enid Blyton book lo those many years ago.
Is cheesecake pie or cake?
