The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for December 19, 2023

That’s her famous “Witch pie”.

Mother Gargoyle is making a FRIUTCAKE? Has she got Santa’s …. “naughty” list!!

;-)

And there are her secret ingredients like “eye of newt”.

Those little green things are cherries?!

From the mouth of a child…

Don’t ever remember having one, but I’d think it be too sweet?

I was all set to make mine and I can’t find candied fruit anywhere. And Amazon’s is too expensive and too big a container. Sigh

Hard to believe, but true. She’s really intent on ruining everyone’s Christmas.

I never liked fruitcake until someone made it with dried cherries and home-candied citrus peel instead of the various neon glops from the supermarket. They truly make ALL the difference!

A fruitcake making a fruitcake. Perfect.

If anyone has extra fruitcakes this year, I’ll take them. I’m building a fire pit/smoker and I’m short of bricks.

never thought I’d see ‘fruitcake’ and ‘yummy’ in the same sentence…

Indeed, the antonym of “gestalt.”

I’ll never understand why so many people don’t like fruitcake. If you had one fresh it might make a difference. I know some are hard as bricks. You don’t have to eat it like regular cake. Just a small sliver with a cup of coffee and very small bites so you can savor it. It’s very good.

So that’s where fruitcake comes from! I should have known it was the evil Mother Gargle behind this!

Alchemy. The art of turning dried fruit into a brick.

My grandmother made a fruitcake like that. It was really heavy and dense. We would eat the obligatory slice with coffee to avoid hurting her feelings. Once we got our “take some home” portion, the rest normally went into the trashcan.

My wife makes an ice box fruitcake that is wonderful. Ingredients are expensive though. All that candied fruit plus pecans etc.

The old battle axe to start off my Tuesday. Maybe Gladys cake will turn out great if she gets rid of old battle axe? Just having her around, no wonder Brutus is born loser.

just be grateful it isn’t gonna get cement in it. unless she’s making a special piece for Brutus. :J

Ramona on the receiving end for once . I love it !

I need to make my second batch this weekend, along with cranberry sauce and bread stuffing.

I like most fruitcakes, they are happy people

MY Mother and Grandma Made fruitcakes 70 year ago and nobody wanted them in our family. They stopped. Chocolate, Walnut, German, Pound, Pecan cakes were gone in a week.My late wife could make any cake/pie/pudding known I think, but refused to make Fruitcakes. But I’m glad that many folk like them. They are truly part of our love of this Season of Honoring our Lord Jesus Christ. And Thank all for that.

That’s actually a backhanded compliment (it is Christmastime) Translation “What gives this most delicious of cakes that special Christmas taste?” It’s another Christmas Miracle. Santa will remember and reward appropriately…..

Hilarious! At the apocalypse the only things that will remain are cockroaches, fruitcakes, and Keith Richards. And happy 80th birthday to Keef yesterday 12/19/23!

Fruit cakes…..ugh!

I’m one of those weirdos that like fruitcake. Haven’t had it in years, though.

What the heck are green cherries? Even after I googled it I still don’t get it. Are they a different colored maraschino cherry?

She go to any length to torture Brutus.

It’s the cake part-yuck!

It would appear Wilberforce is very familiar with Mother Gargle’s fruitcake. Likely, it’s a Christmas tradition the rest of the family would like to forget.

A fruitcake is unholy but not unnatural.

Ha! Side-eye from Grandma.

And Gladys, off frame chides in "take note Wilberforce it is a “flourless” fruit cake"…

might as well just chuck all those ingredients out the window as waste them on fruitcake…

I believe I would pass on that Wilberforce.