[Sca-cooks] Everyone gone already?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

>Olwen asked:
>>  Is this sort of like finding the pickle in the christmas tree?
>>
>>  >I assume she means a "King Cake."  Whoever gets the slice with the
>>  >"baby" baked into it (without breaking his or her tooth ;) has to make
>>  >the cake for next year.  It's a South'un thang.
>>  >
>>  >-Magdalena
>
>This sounds a lot wierder (odder?) than the prize in the cake. I'm
>wondering if I really want to know....But yes, Olwen, just what
>are you talking about with this finding pickles in the christmas
>tree?
>
>I assume this is about a single pickled cucumber in a christmas tree
>and you're not pickling christmas trees. :-) Although I guess that
>would be an alternative to the plastic ones...

Hey, Olwen! Let's mess with Stefan! We can talk about the old
tradition of the herring in the slipper! You know, the very ancient
tradition among... um... Laplander immigrants in New Jersey? Yeah,
that's it!

Actually, I can't think of a twelfth night cake without thinking of
the cake in whichever (WARNING: GRATUITOUS EARLY CINEMA/POP-CULTURE
REFERENCE!) of Hal Roach's Our Gang short subjects (mid-1930's) it
was, the one with Dickie Moore and the cake with the prizes in it.
The one which contained, among other things, a rat-trap and a
hot-water-bottle, which, as it was baking, caused the cake to
exclaim, "wheeeeep...WHOMMMMMP!!!", and breathe like a living thing
as it was being coated with frosting... I actually have a sound file
of that eerie cake sound/voice, acquired somehow or other.

Adamantius