Xmas Xcesses

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Bruce Parker
9. Did someone mention fruitcake? Granted, it's loaded with the mandatory celebratory calories, but avoid it at all cost. I mean, have some standards.

8. ......if you don't like mincemeat,


I'd agree, and swore by these two Christmas advisories until I met girl that changed my mind.

w.r.t. fruitcake, she started marinating dried fruit (not a candied one in the bunch) with black pepper in a 40 ouncer of dark rum round about September. The baking commenceed in October after which the the ounce per week drizzle began. It was the only cake that failed you a roadside breath-a-lizer.

w.r.t the mincemeat, it began with a 3 pound pot roast boiling all day which was added to all manner of sweet spicey things.

There was this grey boiled wheat and poppy seed thing too, but I think I'll stop now.

Speaking of fruitcake, one verse of an old Chad Mitchell Trio song went like this:

"We never eat fruitcake because it has rum
And one little bite turns a man to a bum
Can you imagine a sorrier sight
Than a man eating fruitcake until he gets tight?"

Away, away with rum by gum, the song of the Temperance Union.