How many of you received a fruitcake for Christmas?

How many of you actually ATE any fruitcake this Christmas?

[Try and have a fruitcake to lift up and maybe even pass out chunks, especially to the kids.]

I am one of a small minority, I know. I actually like fruitcake. Come on, it’s moist; it’s sweet; it’s nutty; it’s got a rich bouquet; it’s texture is unparalleled.

That said . . . .

There is no more maligned food than the good old fruitcake. What was once the queen of holiday feasts in the Old World has now become the Old Maid — the most “re-gifted” of all presents. As Lori Wagner, a pastor from Pennsylvania puts it, “Americans don’t pass the buck; we pass the fruitcake.”

Why DO we hate fruitcake SO!?

It is hard for us to grasp that it was not so long ago that fruits, nuts, and sw…