I thought they were the joke of the holiday season -- the gift you gave people you had no idea of what to get, and then that person would pawn it off on someone else they didn't know...and eventually it would be hard as a brick and even more inedible than it was to begin with.
Cake with gelatinous pieces of fruit in it?
I think I'll pass...

"Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?" -- Groucho Marx