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Fruit tart is a traditional Christmas lunch United States and Canada – but is traditional in a strange way. Most people do not like, but is part of every Christmas.

Fruitcake is a heavy, rich cake made with lots of sugar, butter and eggs. For example, a fruit cake recipe in the cookbook White House asks for a cup of butter, one cup sugar and four eggs. Some recipes use up to seven eggs.

Dried fruits like raisins, fruitcake give his name. The cherries and lemon peel preserved in sugar are also used often. That's nuts.

My class once read a comic book where the main character Betty was cooking. Her husband arrived and began testing the ingredients. It was clear that he liked them all. But when Betty told him that he was making fruit cake, said, "I do not like fruitcake."

Why people feel so strongly about this dish? Maybe it's because tastes have changed since the fruitcake was popular. People are not used to very sweet, rich foods – or at least we know that is not healthy. Besides, now we can get fresh fruit year-round, nuts tastes strange to many people.

Such as fruit cake, which love it. That can bring good memories for them. A Christmas Memory, a short story by the famous American writer Truman Capote, begins with a toddler and his older cousin making fruit cake together. For them, this is the beginning of the Christmas season.

Others are not so sentimental with cake fruit. They enjoy making fun of it. At least two American cities – Manitou Springs, Colorado, and Fairmont, Minnesota – have annual events where people throw pies fruit. People compete to see who can throw the longest distance.

Fruit cake often given as a Christmas present, although most people they do not. You can hear people joke about giving those who do not like.

Although it may not be popular fruitcake makes its way into nearly every household in North America during the Christmas season.

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