Has the clapper replaced the fruit cake

[Quietgentleman]

I been watching the TV tonight and the clapper adds have been on with about every commercial run. Around here these adds are only run around the Christmas season. I will admit I have gotten a couple of these as presents and they are taking up space in my junk drawer. And just like a fruit cake I can't get myself to toss out either one. So now I wonder how long it will be before the clapper jokes will replace the fruit cake jokes.

QGM

[Dayzee]

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[nhlivefreeordie]

Thanks for the chuckle this morning QGM, .....but.....I actually like good fruit cake..:o

[Cat Lover]

It could be worse ...

Remember Billy Bass?

[Mom5farmboys]

I have a confession to make..........but you can't repeat this to anyone, I have always wanted a clapper! LOL I was going to buy myself one once but they were over $20.00, and I'm just too cheap to pay it. But I have always thought they were cool.

[sissy]

I tried to throw one of them fruitcakes away just last night. Hubby said to keep it, it don't go bad. It's been here over two years. (I don't eat it.)
Sissy

[backlash]

My brother gets his clapper out every Christmas and puts it away right after.
Clapper and Chia Pet must only sell at Christmas.
I got a Billy Bass one year from my BIL as a joke.
It has become the family pass around gift.
When you get it you wait until someone does something deserving and give it to them at Christmas.

[CastIronCook2]

I'm up for that idea. You could also do recycled Christmas cards, regifting the same one every year back and forth . . . Just look at the money it'd save.

[Wyobuckaroo]

I don't know what "GOOD" fruit cake is supposed to taste like.
Do know that I have had some that was real tasty, and some not so.
Always ready to try one slice at least.
Local mega grocery chain has a local made fruitcake that is pretty good.
Not $10 good at the first of the season, but on sale $5 after the first of the
year. One goes into the freezer also.

Never owned a clapper, don't intend to. Not even a cheap one from a
garage sale.

Did buy a "club" at a garage sale once for $1. Had a lot of
laughs with that putting it on people's cars, lawn tractors etc.
It was good humor.

Anyone with suggestions of GOOD fruitcake, give a shout.

Wyo

[Cil]

There have been times I wish I had a clapper. Dang, my keys like to hide sometimes.

[bookwormom]

Clapper? isn't that the thing that makes a bell ring? What do you want it for? I have not seen a commercial in years.
well, I just googled it and now I know as much as before.

[Quietgentleman]

Clapper? isn't that the thing that makes a bell ring? What do you want it for? I have not seen a commercial in years.
well, I just googled it and now I know as much as before.

Their jingle was "Clap on Clap off the clapper" The end of their commercial has and old lady that's in bed and wakes with the lights on and raises her head and claps her hands and the light shut off and she flops her head back on the pillow. They have also been using the same commercial for I don't know how many years


QGM

This is the link to the commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XUOhjW2AXM

[Dayzee]

Anyone else remember the "Copper Clapper Caper"? Funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpVjW30I-YU

[tomato204]

What would be really handy would be a fruitcake that disappears when you clap your hands!

[Faye]

Collin Street Bakery in Corsicano,TX. I order one of their deluxe fruitcakes every year. My DH and one DD loves it. Expensive @ $30+ but if he wants it he deserves it and he get it. It's only once a year!

[Anon001]

Collin Street Bakery in Corsicano,TX. I order one of their deluxe fruitcakes every year. My DH and one DD loves it. Expensive @ $30+ but if he wants it he deserves it and he get it. It's only once a year!

Faye,

My mother has ordered from them every year that I can remember and I'm 48. She always orders one to have at her house and then she orders one for each of us boys (6 of us still living) and each one is shipped to us at our own addresses.

If someone doesn't like fruit cake, I bet they would after eating one of these. One thing I like to do is put melted butter on it..... mmmm makes my mouth water.

Paul

[Faye]

Paul, I got one as a gift many years ago and that is how we got started. I did not know my DS also likes fruitcake but while here today he asked if I had gotten the fruitcake and wanted a piece of it.

[cinok]

I guess either one of them could be used a paperweight.

[Dayzee]

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[docsoos]

I don't know what "GOOD" fruit cake is supposed to taste like.

Anyone with suggestions of GOOD fruitcake, give a shout.

Wyo

It tastes like this, Wyo:

http://www.gethsemanifarms.org/fruitcake.aspx

These fruitcakes are made by Trappist Monks at their Abby here in Kentucky; I buy one every year, even though they are a bit pricey. The quality and taste is second-to-none. Moist and super-flavorful, with a slight "kick" from the Bourbon they use to make them with.

I haven't tried it personally, but I hear that their fudge is absolutely killer, too.

DocSoos

[Anon001]

This is my favorite.

Fruitcake. (http://http://www.collinstreet.com/pages/online_bakery_gift/deluxe_fruitcake)

Paul