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nor have I anything against pies. I love many desserts.

but extremism of any color must be opposed - especially when people make it their mission to exterminate what they do not like.

Mmmm chocolate brioche. I sneak out early on Saturday and bring home a basket of those for breakfast. Warm them in the toaster oven. Mmmmmm.

Be that as it may, the best New Year's Eve I ever had was because of a piece of pot brownie and a really good glass of Pinot Noir.

Since it is the eve of the chinese harvest festival I present mooncake . Traditionally they are made with pastry wrapping a confection of sweetened lotus paste containing salted duck eggs. Its like eating salted eggs embedded in peanut butter.

I do not enjoy this confused cake/pie hybrid confection (the variety that contains chinese proscuitto is especially disgusting) however I admit to cavorting with lotus eaters of a different kind.

A lady who works for me at the Library brought mooncakes in yesterday for us all to try. They were interesting.

"Lotus Eater" is too high-toned for me. Think I'll just stick with "Smelly Hippie."

"You can't OWN property, Maaaaannnn!"

Maria Antionetta de Bourbon nee von Habsburg informs me that the unwashed hippie masses can have all the brownies they want.

Le president de l'Estates General has affirmed that "Gateau est un domaine royal."

So I ask you LW, haven't we've had it with the current system and their taxes on everything except cake (which we aren't even allowed to eat)? Why don't we revolt and turn over control of the system to an enlightened bourgeois (possibly me, an oligarchy led by me, or at least under a constitutional framework that assures me, heirs, and chosen successors) that will allow everyone to choose cake, pie and the other thing?

After all we're all born with the right to cake, pie or the other thing.

I'll help install anyone who promises me a new paid gig once they're firmly ensconced in high office. Sweeping floors in the warehouse just doesn't sate my intellect like it used to. Can't I sweep floors in the kitchen of some ruthless despot's fabulously appointed mansion instead?

and work your way up to Kitchen Staff Supervisor?

Bah! Just as we were on the verge of our greatest victory, the No Cake Ever At All For Anyone Not Even At Birthdays Or Weddings (DIE!-Cake-DIE!) Movement seems to have lost steam! In order to regain some momentum it's obvious what we'll have to do: regroup, re-strategize and come up with colorful new fliers.

I'm also thinking a peppy, "fun-loving" mascot (Pie-Hole Pete, for instance) might soften our image a bit.

Indeed. My current social and financial status is proof enough of how adept I am at applying my lips to the posteriors of the rich and powerful.

Piece of... uh, cake.

just a few days ago I bought my wife a Dairy Queen Ice cream cake, just 'cause

Awww.

That's both sweet and politically neutral. Good job.

I'm fixing a rhubarb "buckle" later today, which is not a fancy-pants ornament worn by revivalist line-dancers, but in fact just cake with a folksy reclaimed monicker.

So it was time to bump this thread.

Ah, Ram Boy... we hardly knew ye'.

I move for a dismissal of the charge against cake. It is stale.

Okay, but I'm still hanging onto my short skirt AND my long jacket. Because you never know.

Wow! LW legends Kent, Deddy, Ram, Miner, Cleome, Rocky Tamper and Quis all within a few posts of each other on the cake thread! Crumbs!

Don't hold back, thoth lad. We need to know which side you're on.

P.S. - The rhubarb (buckle/)cake was a big success. Took it to an MST3K viewing party and it was gone in about 20 minutes.

If anyone wants to try it, get to the library for this book: Rustic Fruit Desserts

I don't bother with fou-fou ingredients like "Ultra-fine Byzantium Gold sea salt" or whatever but it still turned out well. These are local bakers, but I don't think I've ever checked their place out.

Cake was unjustly accused, as evidenced by the rapid devouring of the rhubarb buckle. Any more accusations and some of us will have to call on the Cake Innocence Project for support.

Hi! This is Khfeurb Chee Bez with your Legion World News.

Tonight's headlines: More clashes between the Cake Innocence Project and the Pie Protection Agency. Persistent Eccling from the Cakes demonstration seems to have incited the Pie Agency, resulting in reports of assault and Battenberg and some cakes becoming Angels. A request for a statement from the Pie Protection Agency was met with a tart response.

That PPA spokesman always was a crusty old guy.

He crumbles under pressure though.

I for one am tired of his crew getting in my face all the time.