Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for December 20, 2009

Cliff, you’re somewhere beneath ‘greeting’….

Ouch - worse than an “ignore”!

And remember, Cliff, you are what you eat.

Under the circumstances, I’ll take a Bah! Humbug!

Heheh .

There are only 5 fruitcakes in the world/galaxy. They are regifted forever.

A fruitcake? oh wow! it’s like Cliff was from san francisco.

I LOVE fruitcake … especially those that are soaked in peach brandy …

The only people who don’t like fruitcake are people who haven’t tried it. Fruitcake rocks.

Nairebis, while a properly prepared fruit cake is delicious, it is often a homemade item at Christmas from people who don’t know how to make it and never really learn because they only try once a year.

The traditional English fruitcake is trickier than quickbread because there is no leavening - it depends on the eggs to rise. The most common mistake is to overmix and overbake, resulting in a product so hard, it is difficult to cut with a knife. This is the source of fruitcake jokes.

P.S. My favorite fruit cake is the Spanish/Italian style - yeast raised, like a giant donut. My second favorite is the German Stollen.

Hey, call it what you like, Stuart, just be sure to soak it in the peach brandy … (smile).

I wonder what Cliff got Pam? Maybe it was the same fruitcake.

If you’ve never tried a Collin Street Bakery fruitcake, you’re missing out. They beat even the best Old-World fruitcakes hands down.

http://www.collinstreet.com/

Yes sir, they’ve got some real fruitcakes in Texas.

We’re still re-gifting a fruitcake made in 1898. Someday someone might eat it.

nothing better than a Brewster zinger!

I like peach brandy on shortcake, ice cream, and in coffee. I tried it on cornflakes once…Baily’s works better….

There used to be Mission Pack fruitcakes, with honey-glaced fruit, big chunks, in a little bit of cake.

But they all got eaten, including the ones we kept…

tsandl, I wouldn’t touch a straight line like that with a 50-foot lasso.

There was an episode of “Golden Girls” where the girls were serving Christmas dinner at a homeless shelter, and one of them brought along all their uneaten fruitcakes to offer as dessert. After everyone had left, not only were the fruitcakes still there, but there were more of them than before. Classic comedy.

As Founder and President of the International Fruitcake Anti-Defamation League, I protest!!!

And thanks for all the pro-fruitcake comments above, some of them impressively knowledgeable.

(OK, so I’m Founder, President, and Sole Member. But for a mere $100 one-time non-refundable membership fee, you can become a lifetime member and join me in defending fruitcakes of all types. I’ll even print you up a membership card or something.)

::I wonder what Cliff got Pam?::

I’m guessing nothing at all. Trying to figure out WHETHER she likes him and doing nothing to help her like him.

..I am a pro-fruit cake person myself..anything that gets soaked in alcohol is great in my book…

Hey, deja vous. This is yesterday’s strip.

yeah i wondering why isn’t there one for today….

3hourtour, you’d probably like me then (not in that way though) because I get soaked in alcohol over the holidaze.

GoComics are up to their old tricks. Today’s Brewster can be seen at http://www.comicstripnation.com/brewster-rocket-space-guy/index.html It begins a one-week long mash-up of all the classic Christmas programs. Hope you enjoy it – Tim R.

Thanks, Tim, I missed my Monday Brewster. I’m going to enjoy the coming dailys! I need to ask, did you sometimes post as ‘the spleen’?

Did you know that Admiral Horatio Nelson, who was killed at the battle of Trafalgar, wasn’t buried at sea which was usual for that time, but was packed away in a barrel of brandy and was preserved that way until his ship, the HMS Victory, arrived back in England? Boy, talk about getting pickled!!!! This is no jive, y’all, that’s the story the tour guide told us at the HMS Victory tour in Portsmouth, England.

Hi, merrymarg! Nope. Dr.Mel has been my only non de plume.

Pro fruitcake, long family line of the same. Amaretto is the liquid of choice in my family, but had an auntie (ahn-tee) who liked hers soaked in Jonnie Walker Black Label. After she died she had a few pieces left over from the previous Christmas (she had iron will to leave it that long) and the family snacked on that and decreed it the best ever (had to have been at least 9 months old if not almost 2 years).

The trick to really good fruit cake is to start Thanksgiving day, use pecans and hazlenuts and DRIED – NOT candied – fruit. When still warm out of the oven, give it the first dose of booze mixed with powdered sugar. Seal in tight plastic containers and redouse and baste for the next 20 days. By Christmas it should be FINE.

If Pam’s giving it to Cliff, the fruitcake probably isn’t made very well.

I enjoy fruitcake.

Well thats a break, its the first time Tim refereed to it as Christmas rather then Getmas.