Will the fuck-ups in the Lounge Bakery never end?

[ohiosmith]

[Major Nikon]

1. I prefer king cakes with edible babies

[ohiosmith]

5. Yea! Damn screw-ups!

[Major Nikon]

7. You have to special order them that way

Do you know how hard it is to get real babies down south?

[ohiosmith]

15. Can't they be brought in from Canada?

[Denninmi]

2. Damn mass market artificial ingredients.

Sorry, but I would only buy a King Cake if it was baked with all nature, free range edible baby.

Real ingredients make for real food.

[Major Nikon]

4. I like using heritage all natural free range babies

... in my cooking. The factory stock they use for the normal ones are OK, but heritage is made from old country stock and has a lot more flavor.

[ohiosmith]

6. Well la te da! You must own a Prius and shop at Whole Foods!

[rug]

3. It's for decoration, silly.

[pipi_k]

8. Hah...I'm reading a book right now where

the three main characters (women) run a bakery in Louisiana and the aunt of the young girl makes a King Cake for the girl to take to school and instead of putting one baby in, the aunt puts a shitload of them in.

Good thing it's fiction. I'd hate to see the lawsuits for broken teeth and fifth graders choking on little plastic babies.

[nolabear]

10. That's very funny! What's the book?

Btw the original "babies" were different figures and were collectable ceramics. I'd give Taterguy's left testicle to find some.

[bluedigger]

14. That's enough of an impetus for me!

I'll begin the search post haste!

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. Everything I know about King Cake I learned from Tom Robbins' "Jitterbug Perfume"...

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... (definitely within my top 10 books ever... and I have been a VORACIOUS reader!!!) It was part of a winter
solstice ritual celebration from medieval times. All the men got a piece of the King Cake, which had an uncooked
bean within it. Whoever got the bean would become a peasant "king" for a time which I forget (but I'm pretty
sure it was less than a week). He was expected to stay DRUNK and foolish -- and ANY woman he wished was
his. At the end of his "reign", he was put to death (as a sacrifice ensuring a successful harvest the following
year, I think).
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I think it was in Anglo-Saxon territory and it may still be part of an IMMENSELY watered-down celebration in
Great Britain to this day.
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I wonder if this cake had a little plastic baby inside... or whether it originally said "non-edible bean" and this
is a good Photoshop.
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[nolabear]

12. Believe me, Baby, they have babies inside.

For years I held onto my King Cake babies. We had a manger scene and just kept adding babies to the manger. My sons were SHOCKED to discover everyone's Baby Jesus didn't have siblings.

I still get them sent to me by my stepmother. Tradition is whoever finds the baby has to throuw the next party.

[baldguy]

11. I thought the fuck-ups were the reason the Lounge Bakery existed.

[Major Nikon]

13. I think you're confusing the Lounge bakery with the Lounge bail bondsman

[bluesbassman]

16. Well duh, everybody knows you use the edible ones for stew.

Geez, I'm from California and I even know that.

[HopeHoops]

17. Whoever heard of a non-edible baby?