Holiday parties suck.
All the people?
No, I like people. It’s the potluck. Potluck’s are evil.
Oh, there I’ll agree with you.
Yeah! Like you have to try and make something everyone will like!
And yet you also want to stand out.
It’s some sort of crappy casserole competition.
I hate casseroles!
Doesn’t everyone?
Well, to be precise I hate other people’s casseroles.
Mmm. Point. Everyone likes the casserole they make, but someone else’s is just left-overs in a mush.
And who wants to eat that? Mystery slush!
Mystery slush!
Nothing good can come of it!
So I always try to work out a cookie or cake thing, but then you have all the allergies to watch out for.
It’s fair, no one wants to die for cookies..
Well…
Not like that!
No, not like that.
So you can’t make cookies.
And then the list starts.
And it ends at yet another casserole.
Always at another casserole!
Which is better, I guess, than the people who bring fruitcake.
No!
You’ve never had that happen? Some poor sucker brings a fruitcake and everyone ends up having to have a bit just so as to not let on how mad they are.
I would refuse! Fruitcake? who would do that to a party, on purpose no less!
It is rude.
I would rather casserole.
Mystery slush!
Better than fruitcake!
December 20th, 2011 on 12:16 pm
My wife makes real fruitcake. The British kind, with just enough cake to stick the fruits together. And by “fruit”, I mean fruit: currants, raisins, a little candied orange peel, etc. And soaked in brandy, for all the flavors to meld.
Nothing day-glow. No maraschino cherries. And you’d never mistake it for a door-stop. The only reason why you wouldn’t like her fruitcake would be if you don’t like raisins (and the like).
I _hate_ what mail-order sausage companies have done to the American concept of fruitcake.