[Sca-cooks] OT/OOP: Wazzup with "Red Velvet Cake"

[Sue Clemenger]

I'm actually a minor Stephen King fan (books, not movies), although I 
think the only books of his that I actually have at the moment are a 
couple co-written with Peter Straub.  And there *may* be a copy of The 
Stand around here somewhere....
I assume from the heavy cream/sour cream question, you're referring to 
cheesecake? Sour cream....I like cheesecake that's got a bit of tang to 
it--a bit of lemon zest as a flavoring, for instance.  And not at lot of 
sugar.  It must be a regional thing to make them sweet and 
almost....gooey, at least around here.  Even the baked ones remind me of 
the "unbaked" kind.
--maire, who must have been raised into the True Faith, as she can't 
understand what use heavy cream could *possibly* have for cheesecake, 
unless one was making cream cheese.....(dang...now I'm hungry)

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
> Also sprach Sue Clemenger:
> 
>> Yes, it does remind me of Cujo cereal.
> 
> 
> Well, it's good to know I am not alone in remembering minor details of 
> obscure horror novels written 20-some-odd years ago... but it was sort 
> of visually arresting. For those who managed not to read the book (I 
> think the idea is either absent or massively downplayed in the movie 
> adaptation), the main  plotline/conflict of the book concerns a mother 
> and son essentially held under siege in a locked car for some 24 hours 
> (in the days before cell phones), by a huge, rabid St. Bernard. The 
> absent, respective husband and father is a junior advertising executive 
> called in to spin-doctor the Red Raspberry Zinger Account, Zingers being 
> a lurid bright-red breakfast cereal containing a new red food coloring 
> not properly tested by the FDA (or that's what I remember from reading 
> it 20 or more years ago...). The food coloring tends to react badly in 
> the stomachs of the kiddies eating this cereal, creating large amounts 
> of slightly curdled, blood-red, projectile vomit.
> 
>> Yes, people really do eat the stuff...some even really like it. 
>> Personally, I can't stand it, because all I taste is the whole bottle 
>> of food coloring. <evil yucky face>
>> But then, I'm not a huge cake fan...I'd rather have my 
>> carb/fats/chocolate for the day as cookies or brownies or ice cream. 
>> Or as a good east coast-style cheesecake (not too sweet, not a lot of 
>> other goop).
> 
> 
> Sour cream or heavy cream? (If I may be excused for discussing religion 
> on this list.)
> 
> Adamantius