I do like them, in extreme moderation. That means very thinly sliced and only during the Christmas season and, they have to have LOADS of pecans. Probably more for tradition's value than anything else.
Perhaps the most well known fruit cake company in Texas is the Collins Street Bakery in Corsicana. Most families in Texas have at one time or another either received or given a Collins Street fruit cake to someone they loved or despised. The company is very well known and very prosperous. So prosperous, that one of it's employees was able to embezzle over $16 million from the company.
how to steal $16 million from a little bakery
(I know I have one each of these tins from when someone sent me one..perhaps an employer when I worked in O&G) One is from Collins Street, the other from Ya-Hoo bakers in Sherman Tx and it's known as a Texas Manor cake.
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Another staid and staunch Christmas tradition that has appeared since the advent of the internet is people saying how much they hate them.