For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 27, 2019

Ahhh the joys of being pregnant and having the nibblies over Christmas!! I remember it well!!

Oh, Michael wanted a slice of the fruitcake?

Go ahead Ellie, blame your husband and blame the baby.

I hate fruitcake. It tastes so awful. Nothing fruity about it at all. Should be called poisoncake for the awful chemical taste.

I think Elizabeth has nailed it. That’s genuinely funny wordplay on “fruitcake” and the setup in the first three panels of Elly yelling makes it very easy to imagine Elly yelling at the scale. Well done. Very funny. One of Lynn Johnston’s best comic strips from this year.

This strip is FUNNY!!

BURN!

ROFL! Not that fruitcake, Elizabeth!

Fruitcake is the worst

Real nice one, Liz. Your mother is playing the victim card here, like she had absolutely nothing to do with this pregnanacy.

Strangely, I just heard today in National Fruitcake Day!!!

A well made fruit cake, real fruit is the best. Not that canned stuff that is hard and sits around for years..

OMG, she called her mom a Fruitcake? :D

Very observant child. LMAO

Elizabeths comment is priceless!

Everyone hates fruitcake, yet, they are still around. In an abundance it would seem. Personally, I like fruitcake. But not the shemical chemical versions.

Can’t imagine being married to somebody like Elly. Drive you nuts. (Oh, wait….)

“We never eat fruit cake because it has rum

And one little taste turns a man to a bum

____________*Away With Rum* (The Song of the Temperance Union)

Don’t say that TOO LOUDLY girl !!!!! lol

One thing about fruitcake in my family is that no one ever eats it. They just give it as a present to whosoever didn’t have it last. That fruitcake is probably older than most of the people in my family!

Oh, that was a good one!

It is the season to eat. I am on two diets, I couldn’t get enough food on one:)

Non-use is waste.

My mom made a no-bake fruitcake one year. I’m not sure what the base was, but it had the citron and candied fruit. Every day for a months she would pour a shot glass of brandy (possibly rum, I don’t really remember) over it and it sat on top of the refrigerator fermenting. I don’t like citron, so I never ate any, but the family seemed to like it.

When I first met fruitcake I thought of “mummified” and still do.

I’m laughing at Liz’s comment can’t stop

I love fruitcake,too. My Godmother made one for me. She passed away before I got her recipe. The Swiss Colony makes an excellent one.

Oh Shut-up, Ellie! Stop being a stereotype! Spare us the Cathy “Aaacks”!

This another one of the word play punch lines that might not have translated well into other languages, (Lynn told us that in the past, as the strip was printed all over the world), but it is hilarious in English!

I love fruitcake. It gets a bad rap. The tastes depends on who makes it. I also love plum pudding.

My mom and I gained 5 to 8 pounds every Christmas and a month later it was gone. We worked out with Jack Lalane.

always serve fruitcake warmed up

Liz! Your Mom is not a Fruitcake! She is just pregnant and entitled to have mood swings at the drop of a hat….

I make a lovely fruitcake using my grandmother’s recipe. It takes weeks to make, so I only do it every few years and then store it in the freezer and serve it at Christmas in very small portions. It is incredibly rich, moist, and yummy. However, I do understand why many other fruitcakes are hated, it can be so dry and many are even stale. Makes sense to dislike something unpleasant, but don’t paint all fruitcake with the same brush. There are a few that are good. :P

No wonder I never got good grades in school, after Christmas! We gave our teachers fruitcakes as Christmas presents (these were commercially made, and came in decorative tins. The fruitcakes… not the teachers!)!