Life is short, eat dessert first!

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“Let them eat cake!” This popular french saying holds true especially on October 14, aka National Dessert Day! Calories don’t count today, so make sure to pick up that box of donuts, or cookies, or whole pie, or perhaps that cheesecake you’ve been thinking about all week. Cash in those kale salad points and reward yourself with the warm sugary glaze. You’ve earned it!

The term “dessert” originates from the French word desservir, which translates to the action “to clear the table.” This is because dessert is served after a main meal’s dishes have been cleared. However, the sweetness of dessert has existed long before there was a proper title for it. As an act of worship, ancient civilizations would offer dried fruits and honey to their gods. In Ancient Greece, a special sweet bread was made with nuts and honey to make an almost cake-like dish called plakous. It is believed the Ancient Greeks may have also invented pie, as Aristophanes mentions sweetmeats and pastries filled with fruit in his plays.

 

 

[Mickwhitt 5,188]

This morning we had a jam scone with a coffee for our elevenses. Then at tea time we had a small piece of Christmas cake. I know it's not Christmas yet but I've been trying a new recipe and so we just had to try a little.

 

When I was in police training we had to teach a lesson about court room measures which were designed to improve the evidence given by vulnerable witnesses. Things like being screened off from the defendant or special communication aids.  Our Crown Prosecution Service (which had as its head at that time one Keir Starmer, our current prime minister) produced a glitzy video which explained how officers could apply for such measures on behalf of their witnesses.  The film was called "Just Desserts" to show that criminals who targeted vulnerable people would get what was coming to them as in they would get their just desserts. Unfortunately, the titles for this very expensive piece of promotional material were produced by the same people who did Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Do you remember it? Moose make up by Stig Carlsson, moose special effects by meeg vonder housing, moose hair stylist jenny voooosts. 

Anyway what I'm trying to say is, the title creator was not perhaps the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. He wrote; "Just Deserts" at the start of the film. 

I would spend the first few minutes of the lesson talking about The Sahara, The Mohave, The Gobi and The Attacama. Confused baby hobbies would then be shown the film Just Deserts which contained not one grain of sand or even a camel. Although I think you can hear a swallow... yarghhhhh!! 

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2 hours ago, Mickwhitt said:

This morning we had a jam scone with a coffee for our elevenses. Then at tea time we had a small piece of Christmas cake.

 

These are certainly some British habits that I wish for here. Well, I actually do usually have a snack around 11 then coffee or tea and a snack at mid-afternoon, but I don't call it anything. 

 

Christmas cake is good any time!  Oh, and I make pretty good gluten-free scones but haven't in a while, need to get that recipe out.

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I started my day with Blueberry French Toast, does that count?