Posted on 12/22/2023 8:52:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
I have a case of the canned bread, and you are right about the description, more like a heavy-dense muffin bread than normal bread.
In a hunger situation, it can surely hit the spot for comfort food and as a break from the other survival foods.
My husband and I love fruitcake. We’ve been eating it since childhood. It’s especially good if you learn to make it yourself.
(I blame Johnny Carson for badmouthing it on TV and creating the popular notion that it’s lousy.)
I will eat fruit cake and would someday like to try an expensive high quality one.
The C-ration fruit cakes weren’t really fruit cake as you know it which is why everyone threw them away, but I needed them for the calories.
Muffin bread is a good description of it.
I’ve often bought it here in Maryland. I used to give it in gift baskets at Christmas; older people especially liked it, probably because they knew what it was.
Younger people by & large are very surprised that there is bread in a can, lol.
They’re very easy to make. The fruit is expensive, but often you can get it half-price right after Christmas.
When we’ve made it, we sliced it up and vacuum-packed slices for the freezer, so we have it all year.
(Ready-made fruitcakes can be very hit-or-miss; the last one I bought seemed rancid.)
Gross.
My grandmother and mother made it. Good stuff.
Being a son of the South, I grew up wth Claxton fruitcake. Wife won’t touch it. More for me!
Ham & Muthas
I’ve been eating B&M Brown Bread since the 1970’s,in Oregon. I have a dozen cans stored in the pantry right now. As someone here said, if nothing else it’s good for when there is nothing else.
It’s really good warm with butter and a touch of honey, which enhances the molasses flavor.
i usually have a can of Brown bread in the cupboard...
Claxton are the best
It’s delicious. I like to take a slice and put it in the toaster oven and get it just warm and barely crispy on both sides and then spread cream cheese on it.
Unfortunately it is not sold in retail stores here in Kentucky so it’s been a while.
Tactical bacon. For when you're behind enemy lines and you just have to have bacon.
I don’t think I’ve tried that one.
Because when you pull out bacon people crawl out of teeny tiny knotholes and demand you share.
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