Mel: Why Do Yanks Hate Fruitcake?

Marmitetoasty (from jolly old England): I just dont understand the hate you doodles have for fruit cake, its a part of British tradition…. maybe you lot dont make it proper, maybe you have you own strange recipe, but fruitcake is what we make our wedding cakes out of and our christmas cakes and then they are covered in marizipan and then iced and decorated…. and the above picture of a cake? well thats not a proper fruit cake, a real fruit cake is dark and lush and rich and nutty and fruity and just the bestest…… I make a fruit cake at least once a month, a HUGE one, cos it keeps for weeks in a tin…. months even :) - so before you lot start slagging off the time honoured fruit cake, maybe you should make a proper one first ;)

Question: I must have some Brit in me as a result of my heritage from those islands (Azores) near Marmitetoasty’s Britain. I (heart) fruitcake. Do you say you hate fruitcase because that’s a fashionable thing to say in the U.S.? Or do you really hate it?