Collins Street Bakery Fruit cake

baboon · 12-17-2018, 08:04 PM

If someone gifts you one & you can't stand the stuff send it my way!

Eightball · 12-17-2018, 08:48 PM

There is a huge difference between average grocery store fruit cakes and Collins Street.
I love their cakes.

10 Bears · 12-17-2018, 10:07 PM

Several years ago I made a remark that I liked those fruit cakes.
Come Christmas I received four of them.
The oldest was around ten years old, so I sampled it first, and ate it all.
Gradually went through the other three, no side affects except appreciation.

BTW, I still like those fruit cakes in a can that are wrapped in cellophane.

JD Miller · 12-17-2018, 11:13 PM

Holy sheeit, They are proud of those. $50 bucks for a 2 lb

baboon · 12-18-2018, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by JD Miller

Holy sheeit, They are proud of those. $50 bucks for a 2 lb

They aint cheap to make & they are that good!

Sanders · 12-18-2018, 08:55 AM

I love fruitcake. Too bad nobody ever gifts one to me.

My wife keeps saying she will make one for me, but then she got laid up with her last surgery. Maybe I can get her to make it early this coming year and let it "age" in brandy or rum.

4thIDvet · 12-18-2018, 09:10 AM

If I was on a lifeboat at sea and all their was to eat was lima beans, grapefruit and fruitcake? I would starve to death.

baboon · 12-18-2018, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Sanders

I love fruitcake. Too bad nobody ever gifts one to me.

My wife keeps saying she will make one for me, but then she got laid up with her last surgery. Maybe I can get her to make it early this coming year and let it "age" in brandy or rum.

I score mine @ the local Albertson's/Randall's cheaper then if I bought it direct. You might want to check if Albertson's own anything in your area. Could just be a Texas thing.

hangfire · 12-18-2018, 10:21 AM

Heck, I even ate the C rat variety. People thought I was nuts.

Eightball · 12-18-2018, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by 4thIDvet

If I was on a lifeboat at sea and all their was to eat was lima beans, grapefruit and fruitcake? I would starve to death.

Man, that would be a feast!
Spread the lima beans over the fruitcake and squeeze the grapefruit juice over it all.
mmmm-mmmm good.

hangfire · 12-18-2018, 10:46 AM

I would mash up the beans and mix it with the grapefruit and use it for frosting.

4thIDvet · 12-18-2018, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Eightball

Man, that would be a feast!
Spread the lima beans over the fruitcake and squeeze the grapefruit juice over it all.
mmmm-mmmm good.

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Originally Posted by hangfire

I would mash up the beans and mix it with the grapefruit and use it for frosting.

Lord Jesus you guys are frigging nuts.

baboon · 12-18-2018, 11:28 AM

I actually liked creamed lima beans the way my dad would make them. I like grapefruit too, but it tears me up even when used to mix with booze.

Sanders · 12-18-2018, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by hangfire

Heck, I even ate the C rat variety. People thought I was nuts.

I dug some up downrange at Ft. Carson in '85. You couldn't read the outside of the cans, anymore. Since they weren't bulged out, I opened them up and one was a can of tuna fish. It looked and smelled okay, but I didn't taste it. The other was fruitcake. I ate that, and it was pretty dang good!

I think 4th must have buried them there back in the day.

Sanders · 12-18-2018, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by baboon

I score mine @ the local Albertson's/Randall's cheaper then if I bought it direct. You might want to check if Albertson's own anything in your area. Could just be a Texas thing.

We have Albertson's here. I'll have to go take a look.

12-17-2018, 08:04 PM	#1
baboon slug Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Out by the lake in central Texas Posts: 18,306	Collins Street Bakery Fruit cake If someone gifts you one & you can't stand the stuff send it my way!

12-17-2018, 08:48 PM	#2
Eightball Proud WECSOG graduate Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: North Louisiana Posts: 3,601	There is a huge difference between average grocery store fruit cakes and Collins Street. I love their cakes. __________________ Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

12-17-2018, 11:13 PM	#4
JD Miller Fake Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: PNW Posts: 39,183	Holy sheeit, They are proud of those. $50 bucks for a 2 lb __________________ .......

12-18-2018, 08:55 AM	#6
Sanders Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 66,460	I love fruitcake. Too bad nobody ever gifts one to me. My wife keeps saying she will make one for me, but then she got laid up with her last surgery. Maybe I can get her to make it early this coming year and let it "age" in brandy or rum. __________________ "The truly dangerous man dresses inconspicuously and is soft- spoken. He walks away from most confrontations. The only time you learn that the truly dangerous man is mad at you is a split second before you die, for he never fights. He only kills. The truly dangerous man knows that fighting is what children do and killing is what men do." - Charley Reese 1986 3

12-18-2018, 09:10 AM	#7
4thIDvet slug Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Astor Florida Posts: 48,408	If I was on a lifeboat at sea and all their was to eat was lima beans, grapefruit and fruitcake? I would starve to death. __________________ God Bless Americas Veterans. All who are serving and have served.

12-17-2018, 10:07 PM	#3
10 Bears Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: E-Da-How Posts: 137,846	Several years ago I made a remark that I liked those fruit cakes. Come Christmas I received four of them. The oldest was around ten years old, so I sampled it first, and ate it all. Gradually went through the other three, no side affects except appreciation. BTW, I still like those fruit cakes in a can that are wrapped in cellophane.

12-18-2018, 10:21 AM	#9
hangfire Home on the range Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: S. Indiana Posts: 17,283	Heck, I even ate the C rat variety. People thought I was nuts. __________________ "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure of the universe" -Albert Einstein-

12-18-2018, 10:46 AM	#11
hangfire Home on the range Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: S. Indiana Posts: 17,283	I would mash up the beans and mix it with the grapefruit and use it for frosting.

12-18-2018, 11:28 AM	#13
baboon slug Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Out by the lake in central Texas Posts: 18,306	I actually liked creamed lima beans the way my dad would make them. I like grapefruit too, but it tears me up even when used to mix with booze.