[Sca-cooks] Cake question

Olwen the Odd olwentheodd at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 7 12:06:57 PST 2002


> > >>>OK, is this Right Angle food cake, Acute Angle food
> > >>>cake, or Obtuse Angle food cake? And is that fork
> > >>>Right or Left tined?
> > >>That would be right angled.  You bake it in a square pan.  I prefer
>right
> > >>tined myself.
> > >But, what if you cook it in a round pan?  Uh-oh... Kyle, Mr. Math, what
> > >would we call it then?  Tangential?  Would that have to be tangerine
> > >flavored?
> > Well, I'm pretty sure that if you cooked it in a round pan with a hole
>in
> > the middle it would be then called a donut.
>
>Magdalena... didn't you learn anything in my class.....
>
>If this cake were circular it would be a halo....  which would keep it just
>out of reach...of mere mortals..... so it would be disconnected from all of
>us and in that case you would have to see some other  mathematician for all
>of my research was on connected spaces....
>
>and the fork must be right tined, for a left tined fork would be sinister
>and that would be more appropriate for a devil's food cake.....
>
>Kael

AH HA!  At last we have come full circle and we are back to the original
Birthday cake ~ ANGEL FOOD!!  To be eated with a right tined fork to keep it
correct and hopefully un-fattening.
Olwen
Thanks Kael.  You know you cann't get a job cuz we need you here.


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