fruitcake

Check the malls for the day after Christmas sales, ask people that very question as they are returning those cheese balls, cheap robot vacuums, and fruitcakes they didn’t want and get back to us.

The Roman fruitcake was a mash of barley, honey, wine and dried fruit, often pomegranate seeds.

Not a Scottish shortbread or jam tart or fruitcake slice.

We are not a fruitcake family and I am not a fruitcake fan.

But there’s no holiday food that riles people up quite like fruitcake.