Festivus "Airing of grievances"

[knot_sweet]

GASP!
A fellow fruitcake lover?!

I get so many weird looks, but I do love it so. Some equate fruitcake and the culinary lump of coal, but I think of it as golden-cakey-rummy-fruity taste of the holidays.

I do have to admit that I occassionally top a warmed hunk with a dollop of fresh whipped heavy cream.

High five and amen on the heavy cream.

 

[midwestyankee]

GASP!
A fellow fruitcake lover?!

I get so many weird looks, but I do love it so. Some equate fruitcake and the culinary lump of coal, but I think of it as golden-cakey-rummy-fruity taste of the holidays.

I do have to admit that I occassionally top a warmed hunk with a dollop of fresh whipped heavy cream.

High five and amen on the heavy cream.

Add my name to the Fruitcake Lovers List.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

GASP!
A fellow fruitcake lover?!

Add my name to the Fruitcake Lovers List.

Always knew you were fruitcakes. Will have to have outside testimony on the lovers part.

 

[Netzach]

WWJD?

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Best fruitcake commentary: Jim Gaffigan's.

"What is that, a Skittle?????"

 

[Red Sonja]

Best fruitcake commentary: Jim Gaffigan's.

"What is that, a Skittle?????"

My FIL is/was a baker (he retired)... there's a lot of truth in Gaffigan's description of the "fruit" in a fruitcake. But rum cake... that I am completely in favor of.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

My FIL is/was a baker (he retired)... there's a lot of truth in Gaffigan's description of the "fruit" in a fruitcake. But rum cake... that I am completely in favor of.

"Cause we've all been eating cake and thought, "Know what this needs? Shotta booze."

 

[Cleopatra]

"Cause we've all been eating cake and thought, "Know what this needs? Shotta booze."

With my extended family? You bet your ass it does.

 

[Ropebunny]

"Cause we've all been eating cake and thought, "Know what this needs? Shotta booze."

Cake is always better with booze! The Europeans sure got that one right.

*heads over to Seela's house for decadent hangover cake*

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

With my extended family? You bet your ass it does.

No. You bet your ASP it does! Hah! Get it? Because you're Cleopatra and all! And... Um.

Yeah.

Cake is always better with booze! The Europeans sure got that one right.

*heads over to Seela's house for decadent hangover cake*

I just don't dig it. I'm more of a dump a fifth of vodka over my pizza kinda guy.

 

[cfuhrer]

I just don't dig it. I'm more of a dump a fifth of vodka over my pizza kinda guy.

That totally puts me in the mood for a drunken watermelon.

 

[knot_sweet]

That totally puts me in the mood for a drunken watermelon.

There needs to be a 'Foods containing booze; How to survive the holiday period' thread.

 

[Red Sonja]

There needs to be a 'Foods containing booze; How to survive the holiday period' thread.

Yes, yes there does!!

 

[JMohegan]

I have no idea who Kim Kardashian is. I don't watch television, so perhaps that helps.

For many years now, my motto has been: if it doesn't come from Ten Thousand Villages, it's not on my shopping list. One stop shopping! I highly recommend it.

WWJD?

How dare you mention do-unto-othering at a time like this. Sheesh.

On a related note - helping other people really is the cure for what ails you in terms of holiday stress. Well, that, and glühwein. And cross-country. And pie.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

That totally puts me in the mood for a drunken watermelon.

Q: Why'd the drunken watermelon get arrested?

A: He couldn't walk a straight vine.

 

[JMohegan]

Most important grievance: poinsettas. FUH-UH-UGLY.

Terrible. Horrible. No good very bad foliage.

At least they don't blink and are reasonably sized.

It's unclear to me why some folks think giant inflatables and flashing lights make appealing decor.

 

[cfuhrer]

How dare you mention do-unto-othering at a time like this. Sheesh.

On a related note - helping other people really is the cure for what ails you in terms of holiday stress.

This time of year I never have spare change cuz it all ends up in red kettles. My goal every winter is to not walk buy a red kettle without putting something in it, even if I have to go back to the car for change.

Q: Why'd the drunken watermelon get arrested?

A: He couldn't walk a straight vine.

Ooooohhhhh, man!

It's unclear to me why some folks think giant inflatables and flashing lights make appealing decor.

AaaaaAaaaaaamen!!
I do not get the appeal of inflatables. Every year when teenagers run rampant through the suburbs and puncture them in a spree of kids-will-be-kids; out loud I curse the down fall of society, but silently, inside- I cheer.

 

[Loverskitten]

Has anyone seen the new show "Take it All"? Wow the greed, it's astonishing! It's pretty F'd up.

 

[Netzach]

Inflatables are weird as hell, but I admit we have flashing LED lights on the slow fade setting as a general lighting decision, like stoner children or something.

Someone in the 'hood puts santa hats on 2 goose decoys every year. Best ever lawn decor.

 

[midwestyankee]

This time of year I never have spare change cuz it all ends up in red kettles. My goal every winter is to not walk buy a red kettle without putting something in it, even if I have to go back to the car for change.

This was my policy in years past, as well. However, this year I learned about the SA's generally anti-gay policies and have decided that my charitable contributions will go elsewhere.

AaaaaAaaaaaamen!!
I do not get the appeal of inflatables. Every year when teenagers run rampant through the suburbs and puncture them in a spree of kids-will-be-kids; out loud I curse the down fall of society, but silently, inside- I cheer.

Same here. I just don't get the appeal of these very ugly creations. Further, I don't get the appeal of lighting up your front yard with spotlights so that anyone living within three states can see the ugliness of your taste in holiday directions. Especially when said spotlights are directed straight at my bedroom windows. Harrumph!

 

[Red Sonja]

This was my policy in years past, as well. However, this year I learned about the SA's generally anti-gay policies and have decided that my charitable contributions will go elsewhere.


Same here. I just don't get the appeal of these very ugly creations. Further, I don't get the appeal of lighting up your front yard with spotlights so that anyone living within three states can see the ugliness of your taste in holiday directions. Especially when said spotlights are directed straight at my bedroom windows. Harrumph!

I agree on both counts. I kind of miss tossing the change at the red kettles. I do. That's a festivus grievance.

My next door neighbors have their spotlights and other lights so bright, and so outlining a path up the sidewalk, I'm always slightly afraid that the helicopter for the hospital that is only a block away will descend in the middle of the night onto my front lawn by mistake.

 

[midwestyankee]

I agree on both counts. I kind of miss tossing the change at the red kettles. I do. That's a festivus grievance.

My next door neighbors have their spotlights and other lights so bright, and so outlining a path up the sidewalk, I'm always slightly afraid that the helicopter for the hospital that is only a block away will descend in the middle of the night onto my front lawn by mistake.

Do you live across the street from me? We have medical helicopters going overhead every day.

 

[Red Sonja]

Do you live across the street from me? We have medical helicopters going overhead every day.

Could be... I'm definitely in the Midwest. To narrow it further, Sir W and I are in the same state...

 

[midwestyankee]

Could be... I'm definitely in the Midwest. To narrow it further, Sir W and I are in the same state...

Ah, well I'm in the populated part of the Midwest. Where the villains in movies made about here don't use wood chippers to dispose of their victims.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Ah, well I'm in the populated part of the Midwest. Where the villains in movies made about here don't use wood chippers to dispose of their victims.

We're definitely in the UNpopulated part of the Midwest, but villains here don't use wood chippers, either. They don't want to waste the gas. They just drop the bodies off in the Badlands. (And yes, it costs them more in gas to transport them, but if they were smart, they probably wouldn't be villains, right? )