So we bake and risk the burning, the falling and the crumbling, trying to meet our kids' cake expectations.
Meanwhile, Esther and I would play off-color city-kid patty cake, singing, "Went to the store to get a stick of butter/Saw James Brown sitting in the gutter/Took a piece of glass, shoved it...," and filling out the quatrain with expletives, which he never seemed to notice.
If you love making food designs and know of friends and neighbors who do too, pool together to buy a food printer for sharing around; this makes it an economical way to make edible designs from kids' cakes to jello shots!
"I love you like a fat kid loves cake," he says to a paramour who stands by him while he is in prison.
An affable crooner like Josh Groban could never get away with singing, "I love ya like a fat kid loves cake," but when 50 Cent stopped scowling long enough to slur that phrase, it sounded like the world's most romantic simile.
That audience was once the icing on the kids' TV cake, but became hugely important as younger children started to follow its lead.
If you want a more "kid-feeling" cake, substitute any candies or items for other food choices.
And so it was easy to keep the mothers caught in the "kitchen, kids and cakes" tradition.
Parents were ordering things off the adult menu for their kids: crab cakes, pastas, stir-fries of vegetables".
As a result, it was easier to keep mothers caught in the tradition of kitchen, kids and cakes, rather than to encourage them to work in order to plug gaps in the labour market.Nanke Meuter-DikkersThe HagueNorthern Rock respondsSIR – With the benefit of hindsight, you describe Northern Rock's business model as "dangerous" ("The Bank that failed", September 22nd).
