Does anyone actually like fruit cake

This thing is worse than a pound cake when it comes to density. Sweet bread is not meant to be this horribly heavy, and the idea of it weighing down your belly after a full holiday dinner is grotesque. The shelf life of this thing is doubly suspect. When you bake and slice a dessert over two decades ago and can still eat it , you should be very suspicious and never want to consume it.

Some of you are probably reading this wondering, Why does this list exist? Doesn't everyone already unanimously agree? Who even serves this anymore? Well, I asked myself the same question but quickly realized that some people aren't up to speed on just how outdated and bad-tasting fruitcake really is.

Virtually the only people eating it nowadays are British royalty and great grandmas who can't even taste it anyway. If catapults have been built for the sole purpose of hurling fruitcakes across a vast field, then that's all this dessert is good for. Does anyone out there other then my father actually like fruitcake? Also could not resist adding a link to my favorite fruitcake recipe ;-. I have heard that there is actually such thing as a good fruitcake, unlike the nasty commercial green candied fruit laden monstrosities I have had in the past.

Has anyone eaten one? O'Shaughnessy When the usual pie lineup feels boring and uninspired for your dessert repertoire, you've got to make Sign up for our newsletter to receive the latest tips, tricks, recipes and more, sent twice a week. By signing up, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. Image credit, Flickr: sylvar. Here at HuffPost Taste, we like to think ourselves as food lovers, not haters. We love doughnuts and melted cheese , whipped cream and sriracha -- we've even written them love letters.

But when it comes to fruit cake, all we feel is hate. In our hearts, fruit cake does not deserve a declaration of love, but the very opposite of one. This is the anti love letter. Fruit cake, we hate you, let us count the ways. We hate fruit cake's fluorescent candied fruit pieces.

Why must its candied fruit look radioactive? Photo credit: Ringo Ichigo. We hate that fruit cake looks pockmarked and diseased. And yet, it's somehow suppose to look appetizing. Photo credit, Flickr: jeffreyw. Fruit cake is labeled as a cake; and this is incredibly misleading.

No self-respecting cake would ever be this dense. A door stop is a better descriptor -- and what most people use this seasonal baked good for.