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[nolly]

Poll context: Butter cookies have been appearing in the breakroom lately. No one seems terribly enthusiastic about this fact. I prersonally find them bland and dry, and just not appealing. Whereas I grew up on Claxton fruitcake, which I don't see here on the West coast. And my grandparents pretty much always have a fruitcake around at Christmas, which seems to get eaten. So I'm curious whether butter cookies should have a rep like unto fruitcake, and whether fruitcake's rep is justified.

Comments

[aiela.livejournal.com]

I don't like those butter cookies *nor* fruitcake, so...

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I should have included a "none of the above" option. Wonder if I can edit it when pople have already answered...

[mdlbear]

I'm not crazy about peanut butter cookies, though I'll sometimes eat them if there's nothing better. I am very fond of good fruitcake.

My mom used to make fruitcake sometime around September, and keep it in the fridge until late December wrapped in aluminum foil, topping off the brandy every week or so.

Note to self: get that recipe!

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Not peanut butter cookies, those little dry, crunchy yellow cookies in the blue tins. Usually, some of them have sugar crystals on top. Standard shapes are pretzel-shaped, rectangular, and a few variations on circular.

[firecat]

I didn't answer the poll because I'm embarrassed about my fondness for fruitcake. I always thought everyone else thought it was only one half step up from eating rocks.

[ptgmachetti.livejournal.com]

i didn't answer the poll originally, because i really haven't had fruitcake to be able to form a reasonable opinion. but after this thread came up, i had to defend the butter cookies. :P