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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })In America and Britain, fruit cake is the common ridicule of many Christmas-time jokes for its bland taste and very long life, sometimes depicted as hard enough as to be indestructible, or to serve as a blunt weapon. It is often depicted as a gift given to someone the giver doesn't like, later used by the recipient as a doorstop, paperweight, or anything else a brick could be used for. The common stereotype came from the fact that fruit cake, when mass-produced and brought to the supermarket, has to be deliberately overbaked in order to have a very long shelf life, with side effects including hardness and a flat taste. Another reason people tend to dislike it is the unnatural colors, cloyingly-sweet flavors, and chewy textures of the fruit typically contained in these cakes. (Usually candied cherries, dyed green or an unnatural shade of red, and candied citron.) Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Even if people were to bake it themselves at home, the process is harder than they think; it is very easy to to mess up the process, like baking it too dense or undercook it so that the middle is a puddle of uncooked goo. So as noted, there are such things as a good fruit cake but it's rare to find one with a perfect balance of moisture and weight.note With the notable exception of British Christmas cake; the copious amount of alcohol in traditional recipes probably helps. By the way, despite the stereotype, it can go bad, so we would not recommend giving your kids a fruitcake that has been passed down for many generations — just chuck it in the bin. A sub-trope to Stock "Yuck!", sometimes overlapped with Indestructible Edible. |
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Fruitcake appears in both The Smurfs cartoon show episode "The Master Smurf" as a substance that the Smurfs use to build Greedy's monument to himself while they were under the thrall of his magical crown, and in The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol as one of the things of Christmas that Greedy says that he hates at the beginning of the story. Interestingly, fruitcake turns out to be Hefty's favorite holiday food, as he is seen eating it as the Smurf of Christmas Future. | |
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A running gag in The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper is that even ghosts don't like fruitcake, to the point that in one episode, Dr. Harvey manages to send his daughter, Casper, and the Ghosly Trio fleeing in terror when he offers them some. Much to his bemusement, as he genuinely likes it. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, when Uncle Vernon is boarding up the mail slot to prevent any more "mysterious" letters from entering, Petunia hands him a fruitcake and he uses it to pound in a nail. Since fruitcakes are normally made for the Christmas season and this part of the book took place in mid-July, said fruitcake was at least half a year old. | |
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In The Pretender, the first-season episode "Not Even a Mouse" has the protagonist discovering a range of Christmas traditions he missed out on due to his deprived childhood, one of which is the tradition of disdaining fruitcake. Jarod himself rather likes fruitcake. | |
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At one point in Darkened Skye, you have to perform a Chain of Deals, with the starting item being a fruitcake. The reactions of the various merchants in the marketplace who can be offered the fruitcake but don't want it are rather amusing. | |
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In Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, Minnie is given a fruitcake in place of the Christmas bonus she should have received. Her boss is a rich Jerkass. | |
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Zig-zagged throughout the Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas special. One of the running gags in the special is Pee-wee receiving fruitcakes as gifts from his friends. At first, he pretends to like them, but at several points, he says lines like, "It's not a fruitcake, is it?", and "No, no, no more fruitcake!" Towards the end of the special, when Cowboy Curtis gives him a fruitcake, but then sees Randy gave him one as well, he is about to take it back, thinking Pee-Wee doesn't need another. Pee-Wee tells him he does, and reveals to his friends what he did with all the fruitcakes; he used them to build a new room to the playhouse. | |
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In Prep and Landing, Wayne receives a fruitcake from a coal elf upon news of his (expected) promotion. He immediately re-gifts it to Magee, who later gives it to Lanny during the company Christmas party. | |
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A double example from the Darkwing Duck episode " It's a Wonderful Leaf": Bushroot complains that "everybody treats me like last year's fruitcake." Darkwing hears a guy yelling that someone stole his fruitcake. He wonders who would do that, and Launchpad responds, "I wish I knew. I can never get rid of the stuff." |
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A plot point in Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, in which Grandma Spankenheimer's fruitcakes is actually one of the cornerstones of her business since she bakes it well enough that people willingly want to eat it (despite the song "Grandma's Killer Fruitcake''). Cousin Mel trying to sabotage the recipe is what kicks the plot of the special into gear since she unknowingly turn it into reindeer nip which caused the titular hit and run. Likewise during the court scene, when Jake presents the first evidence to the jury. One of them warily asks the judge "Do we have to?". | |
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Fruitcakes being given to Mr. Plotz is a running gag in the Animaniacs episode "A Christmas Plotz," which he rejects because he hates fruitcake (and has an whole office full of fruitcakes that were given to him). It gets to the point where he thinks that Dot, who is disguised as a gift box when she enters as the Ghost of Christmas Present, is probably another fruitcake, which she is insulted by ("fruitcake" being a term for an insane person). At the end of the story, after he has reformed, instead of sending a turkey to Ralph's house, Plotz tells the Warners to buy the biggest fruitcake they can find and send it to Ralph's house. They bring a gigantic fruitcake the size of Ralph's trailer house using a helicopter and drop it, where it lands on top of Plotz. Listening to Plotz's screams underneath the fruitcake, Wakko replies that "We'll have you out of there by Easter." The trope is possibly subverted given that the Warners don't seem to mind the task of eating the giant fruitcake. | |
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Garfield has had more than one strip denouncing fruit cakes. In one, Jon recalled his family holidays. As an act of magic, his Uncle Joe made the fruitcake disappear. Garfield didn't consider it a great loss. | |
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The Discworld has two referents for this trope: Firstly the idea of Dwarf Bread, a parody of Middle Earth's cram, a substance that draws the last few shreds of endurance out of a wanderer in the wilderness for fear that if he gets stranded in a bleak inhospitable Mordor-like place, he'd better get a move on, as all he'll be left with to eat will be the dwarf bread. In Guards! Guards!, the six-foot tall Dwarf Carrot Ironfoundersson (it makes sense in context) is sent a Dwarf fruit cake by his family in the mountains as celebration of his getting a job in the big city. Baked, or rather forged, for longevity, Carrot has to use a halberd to cut it into slices — and there is mention of several impressive rebounds before the halberd is actually able to slice it. The trope is averted; Carrot actually likes it. After all, he grew up in the culture. Elsewhere in the Discworld, there is the concept of Unexpected Nougat in a box of chocolates, the confection that can spoil anybody's day: on paper everything a sweetmeat should be, but in practice unbearably disgusting: the hard chocolate nobody likes, over-sweet, over-hard, full of indefinable bits, and which doesn't count as chocolate: getting it automatically entitles the unfortunate one to go back into the box for another pick. If consumed in error, long-standing custom and precedent also dictates the calories do not count. |
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Wacky Races (2017): Averted in "It's a Wacky Life". Pandora tells Dick she joined the other wacky racers' Christmas celebration for the fruitcakes and gladly eats one. It's further averted in the end when Muttley eats another fruitcake. | |
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In the Junie B. Jones book titled Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake, the title character wins a cake walk at her school carnival and picks the fruitcake. She's warned that it won't taste good, but chooses it anyway. When she brings it home, she finds that she doesn't like the taste, but it makes itself useful anyway, as a replacement for the telephone book she has to sit on at the dinner table ("that thing hurts my hiney"). | |
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Zigzagged in World of Warcraft. The annual "Mince meat fruit cakes" from the Christmas event given an achievement when eaten while in Santa garb. They're also the best food items in terms of healing as they restore 5% every second for 20 seconds (That's 100% HP) meaning they're effective for even a level 90 tank with thousands of HP and only require one serving. Still, the description says it will "be a long time before it goes bad" and that "you should probably also like the taste of fruitcake. (Of course, many useful food items in this game are stuff the typical man would be revolted by.) | |
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Fruit Cakes are drops during December in Don't Starve Together. It counts as a 'food' item but it will never spoil and none of your characters will eat it, instead making grimaces if you try to make them. | |
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In Dave Barry Slept Here, the Soviets' blockade of West Berlin was finally called off after Harry Truman threatened to bombard their territory with "huge amounts of cafeteria-grade ravioli or even—remember, these were desperate times—fruitcake." | |
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One strip of Crankshaft has characters mentioning what they did with last Christmas' fruit cake. One used it to kill spiders while the other used it to make their truck heavier while driving on icy roads. | |
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The exterminator hero of Big Ass Spider keeps getting fruitcakes as gifts from a grateful elderly client. They're even worse than normal, because she does things like leave the stems on the cherries; a brief gag shows a pile of the things in the hero's truck, untouched. | |
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The Red Green Show: One of the Christmas specials has a segment where Harold asks the audience if they can guess what part of Christmas he hates more than Fruit cakes, before thinking for a second and doesn't think there is anything worse (but his intended answer, now second-worse, is the waiting). Another segment shows how the various lodge members use their fruit cakes. Dalton, for example, leaves a fruit cake for Santa, who then gets his revenge by filling Dalton's stocking with fruit cakes. | |
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In The Sims 4, Sims will give fruitcakes to new neighbors as a housewarming gift. If eaten, and the Sim doesn't have a gluttonous personality trait, they will get the "What Did I Just Eat?" moodlet, leaving the Sim in a bad mood. | |
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Garfield and Friends. In the "Revenge of the Living Lunch" episode a meteor lands on Earth, gets mistaken for a fruitcake and is passed along for decades because no one will even try to eat a fruitcake. Jon receives it from his Aunt Edna (prompting Garfield to wonder what Jon ever did to make her mad at him) and after stashing it in the fridge, wanders off to contemplate the age-old question fruitcake recipients always ask themselves: "Who do I dislike enough to give a fruitcake to?" Garfield mentions fruitcakes are one of the few foods he refuses to eat note The others being raisins and snails, and also that although (in his opinion) Jon is dumb, even he isn't dumb enough to try eating one. | |
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Knights of the Dinner Table has a running gag about the awful fruitcakes B.A. and Sara receive from their Aunt Nudra every year. | |
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In the "Black Friday" episode of Life, Det. Charlie Crews pegs a running mall thief (dressed as a Christmas elf) with a fruitcake, dropping him. Right in front of some confused carolers. Who become horrified when he approaches with his gun drawn. Then the suspect is finally tackled and handcuffed ... by Santa Claus (another cop undercover). | |
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In Olaf's Frozen Adventure, Olaf eats a fruitcake that literally goes right through him. Subverted in that Olaf eagerly eats it rather than hates it. Played straight later on when a hawk steals the fruitcake (which, by that point, has been carried for some time by Olaf through woods and mountains but is still intact), then returns it untouched some time later. | |
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In the Liō strip for December 16, 2014, the title character happily pulls a fruit cake out of its box...and uses it as a footstool to help him hang his stocking over the fireplace. | |
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In The Ref, one of the neighbors has a holiday tradition of dressing up as Santa and going door to door delivering home-made fruitcakes. The family being held hostage throws the fruitcake away as soon as he leaves. | |
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One Archie Comics story has Veronica Lodge, already a Lethal Chef, try her hand at making fruitcakes, baked in fluted cake pans. The result is so hard it might as well be concrete. She tasks Archie and Jughead to deliver her "gifts", and when Archie's Alleged Car gets a flat, they use a fruitcake as a spare tire. | |
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Even My Little Pony G3 pokes fun at fruitcake. On the backcard description for toyline-only pony December Poinsettia her favorite type of cake is listed as "fruitcake (no, really!)", implying that it's surprising that anyone (or any pony) would like it that much. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has the Fruitcake Elemental, a promotional holiday card given out to Wizards of the Coast employees in 2006. It's an indestructible 7/7 behemoth...that deals 7 damage to its controller every turn. Naturally, it has another ability that lets you gift it to an opponent. | |
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At the beginning of the The Fairly OddParents! episode "Christmas Every Day", Vicky makes Timmy gift-wrap a large amount of fruitcakes (which Cosmo uses to build an igloo), a job that Timmy deplores. After bringing him a giant fruitcake that she needs a forklift to lift, Timmy asks her who all the fruitcakes are for, and she tells him they're not for anyone, but she just likes making him work, and promptly uses his wrapped fruitcakes as firewood. | |
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Good Eats naturally discusses this and, being a cooking show, attempts to defy the stereotype by producing a fruitcake recipe that is actually delicious. He uses fruit that is dried, but found in nature and otherwise untampered with. | |
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In the "Christmas Who?" episode, at one point Spongebob says, "...And everyone pretends to like the fruitcake!" Also, in the same episode, Mr. Krabs gives Plankton one as a present and he throws it out - into a trashcan full of nothing but fruitcakes. | |
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In the Shadowrun-verse, the immortal dragons Dunkelzahn and Alamais spent 30-odd years feuding over a fruitcake, giving it away to the other on alternate Christmases. Alamais got stuck with the short end of the straw (and the fruitcake) in 2057 when Dunkelzahn died and revealed the game publically in his will. Along with the fact that, as Dunkelzahn is dead and Alamais isn't, he is the de facto winner. Of course, half of the deal was that Dunkelzahn outed Alamais as Not Quite Dead by mentioning him in his will, and forced him to return to public life. Alamais had faked his own death in an airborne duel with Lofwyr and Kaltenstein above Stuttgart some years earlier, with three million credible witnesses watching him die. This was presumably all according to plan... |
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The titular family from Vatta's War has Aunt Gracie, who insists on sending out every family member going on their first voyage with a stash of fruitcake. Her fruitcakes are generally considered inedible and dense enough to block out X-rays. The last bit is Not Hyperbole. Gracie often sends valuable items in fruitcakes, knowing that they can get through most security checkpoints without comment and that no-one will cut a fruitcake unless the situation is well beyond frazzled. The main character cuts hers when her funds have dropped low enough that she can't afford to resupply, and finds out it's full of diamonds. However, it turns out that while Ky doesn't like them quite a few of her crew love fruitcake and would have gladly eaten them if she'd asked. | |
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''Star Trek Online" has Last Year's fruitcake as an obtainable item during the Winter Event. There's also Ripplebery Fruitcake. | |
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In the "Its A Sponge Bob Christmas" episode, Plankton puts Jerktonium on fruit cakes to make everyone into jerks. He gives the first one to SpongeBob, who turns out to be immune, making Plankton think his plan failed. SpongeBob then gives the Jerktonium fruit cakes to everyone else, unwittingly helping in Plankton' evil scheme. (Note that the characters are not complaining about getting fruit cake; the episode plays on the cake's reputation by making them instruments of evil.) | |
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In the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Fa La La La Ed", the Eds find a decades-old "ancestral fruitcake" in Edd's parents' closet, which Eddy initially mistakes for a hunk of bologna. Rather than eating the fruitcake, Edd's family apparently just uses it as a Christmas decoration. | |
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In Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, Commander Badass has been known to store caches of fruitcakes just in case. Of course, even though the Commander appreciates fruitcake's value as wilderness survival food, he admits that it's impossible to tell if a fruitcake has gone bad, because he's never tasted a good fruitcake. | |
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EverQuest II has the "Fruit Cake" item. The description says "The cake is a lie". It's a worthless item that just takes up space and the best you can do is hurl it at opponents. The hit player falls to their knees, brushes crumbs off their face and then they have the fruitcake in their inventory to throw at someone else. | |
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It crops up in an unexpected dating and baking metaphor on Little Mosque on the Prairie: | |
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The Histeria! episode "World War II" ended with a segment where the main characters helped Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin decide what to do with the nations liberated from Nazi rule and how to punish the enemy soldiers using foods to represent the nations and enemy soldiers. Fruit cake is chosen by Charity Bazaar to represent the Nazis because she claims that no one likes fruit cake. | |
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Terraria has fruit cake as a drop during the holiday season. Its only use is as a throwing weapon, and cannot be consumed like all the other Christmas-themed food items. | |
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Spongebob Squarepants. In the "Christmas Who?" episode, at one point Spongebob says, "...And everyone pretends to like the fruitcake!" Also, in the same episode, Mr. Krabs gives Plankton one as a present and he throws it out - into a trashcan full of nothing but fruitcakes. In the "Its A Sponge Bob Christmas" episode, Plankton puts Jerktonium on fruit cakes to make everyone into jerks. He gives the first one to SpongeBob, who turns out to be immune, making Plankton think his plan failed. SpongeBob then gives the Jerktonium fruit cakes to everyone else, unwittingly helping in Plankton' evil scheme. (Note that the characters are not complaining about getting fruit cake; the episode plays on the cake's reputation by making them instruments of evil.) |
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