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We do not have Christmas Cake in the US as far as I've ever seen. Even 'fruit cake' which exists solely around Christmas has been the butt of jokes for at least
by Avshalom 11y ago
We do not have Christmas Cake in the US as far as I've ever seen. Even 'fruit cake' which exists solely around Christmas has been the butt of jokes for at least 30 years so very few people actually buy/eat them and they don't usually have anything (booze, frosting) going on with them.
- baby 11y agoWow, always figured it was the same everywhere. Here in France we have "buche de noel" which means "log of Christmas" because it's a cake shaped like a log.
- Avshalom 11y agoWe do have 'yule logs' which wikipedia tells me are broadly the same cake (chocolate sponge cake rolled up around frosting) but I don't know that it's really all that common. US Christmas is stereotypically endless cookies, with gingerbread and cinnamon rolls coming in strong. In general though I think the culinary traditions aren't really unified enough to be worth talking about.
- dorfsmay 11y agoExcept for eggnog!
- dplgk 11y agoI totally forgot I learned about buche de noel in French class about 20 years ago. Thanks for the flashback.
- baby 11y agoI find the thought that we have a lot of seasonal cakes amusing. You can find "Galette des rois" around january only, "bugnes" around march I think, "papillotes" and "buches" for Christmas...