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Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
right now I'm sad that I got neither ...

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Hippyt
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06-15-2001

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 12:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now,I didn't even get any king cake,I'm really sad......

Ddr
Member

08-19-2001

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I know Hip. I'll mail you one next year.

Jewels
Member

09-23-2000

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I am wondering what King Cake is.

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm telling Texannie that I took the baby from the King Cake!! So Ddr will be getting a King Cake from me next year....riiiight??

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 1:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Or you will be having a baby next year???????

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 1:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
.....don't think so!! Hmmmm....but if I could, it would be a boy.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, the King Cake was delicious and right now I smell hotwings.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 2:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok..you can bring the cake next year then.

Right now...here's the history of it.


In New Orleans, the first week of January begins King Cake season, a traditional gastronomic prelude to the city's Mardi Gras celebrations. We bake our King Cakes in the Mardi Gras colors: purple, green and gold. They first appeared on the cakes after 1872, when the Rex Krewe selected those colors for its opening Mardi Gras parade. The colors come to stand for Mardi Gras and took on symbolic meanings: purple for justice, green for faith, and gold for power. Hidden in each oblong of braided coffee-cake dough is a bean or plastic baby; custom dictates that whoever finds it must give the next King cake party. And one Mardi Gras organization even uses a King cake tradition to choose the queen of its annual ball.

Hundreds of King cake parties are held in New Orleans every year. After the cake is served, the cry "I've got the baby" announces that a party-goer has received the slice of cake containing the baby or bean. That guest is King or Queen of the party, an honor that includes playing host at the following week's King cake festivity, where a successor is chosen in the same manner. King cake enthusiasm also extends to offices, which serve the cakes at coffee breaks, and to parties for children whose birthdays fall during this time (youngsters often find that a thoughtful mother has arranged for a baby to appear in every piece of cake).

In the seventeenth century, Louis XVI took part in at least one Twelfth Night festival where a bean or ceramic figure was hidden in the cake, also known as a gateau des Rois (King's cake). The Twelfth Night cake custom is still widely observed in France, where families and friends gather around one of the different cakes served at the cake soirees. In some regions the couronne, made from a brioche dough topped with a fruit festooned sugar glaze, is favored. In Paris and other major cities, a fancier galette filled with frangipane (almond cream paste), prevail. In most areas of France, a tiny plastic king or queen is baked into the galette des rois.

King cake parties in France refer to the galette de Rois tradition as "pulling the king or queen." The guest who receives a serving with the trinket hidden inside picks a consort. Then the pair, who will host the next King's Day Party, are crowned with the gold and silver paper diadems that adorn the cake. In France, King's Day celebrations end on January 31. France's brioche-like couronne became the forerunner of New Orleans' king cake when Creoles, colonials of French and Spanish descent who settled in New Orleans, adopted the French Twelfth Night cake custome and blended it with the Spanish tradition of mounting a grand ball on Twelfth Night. By the end of the eighteenth century, party-loving colonists had extended the tradition into an entire season of balls, which started on the Twelfth Night and ended on Mardi Gras.


Reader234
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08-13-2000

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 2:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
right now I'm at the airport. Thanking God for the many angels that have helped me today, I'm on a 4pm flight!! This kiosk mouse clikcer isnt workig \


working right!!

Jewels
Member

09-23-2000

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 2:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, thank you, Texannie! What a fun tradition!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I am saying anything that involves cake and alcohol is a fun tradition!!!
Happy Fat Tuesday all!!!

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 3:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I just have to tell you how sweet my dh is. On Sunday, we found out that his mother had been saying some untruths about me, nothing vicious just hurtful. That with a couple of other things had me out of sorts yesterday. Today I'm better. I get this email a couple of hours ago from my dh saying he is out of sorts today because of what his mother has said to our niece and that he thinks he is going to have to write an email to her. He did! He is so sweet taking up for me. I love him.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am telling Denecee that she's got a keeper!!

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 7:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm about to go watch Amazing Race after a very long day of nursing a sick young man and a sick old man (son and dh). I even took son to the doctor. Fever is up and then way down. Ack

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 8:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
right now, grace, i am so sorry, especially since you deserve a rest after taking on most texas meeting duties.

and right now, i figured out how to floss my teeth one-handed! crafty, huh?

Karen
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09-07-2004

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, HP... I'm amazed. Please to be telling your one-handed flossing technique. The closest I've ever come is by wrapping the other end of floss around my tongue... but that never lasts long, and usually hurts.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 8:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, chuckle at Hp... you might want to check out the floss section, they have these tools with a handle (white) and a floss attached... ds loves them, they're strong enough to do it one handed!!

Right now {{{hugs}}} Auntie Grace! miss you so much!! Can I come back this summer??? Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you gave to me!! You filled me with so much love!!

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
right now, karen, i am sure you are just kindly keeping me busy so i forget about my pain, but . . . to answer your question, i:

1. Held the plastic container in my mouth so i could break off a fairly long piece of floss. (hurts to do anything at all with my left arm for now).

2. Held my right thumb and pointer finger apart and made a 'human' version of what reader suggests i use (which i have seen btw, reader, but have never purchased).

3. i wound the single strand around my thumb, stretched it across the gap to my 'spaced out' pointer finger and then wrapped it around that finger.

right now, reader, i think i will send ed out tomorrow to buy me a pack of those gizmos! lol!

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 9:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
right now, heading to bed. but before i go, will share a bit of david letterman humor

"Michael Jackson states he believes God is smiling down on him.
If that's the case, it's probably because God doesn't recognize him."

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 7:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now it looks like another nice day outside, if I had wheels I would sneak out.

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now, I'm at school but thinking seriously that I need to go home. LOL

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 10:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I put one of the Texas pics on my desktop but I need to use the original though cause it's a lil blurry.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm sick as a dog. All feverish and stuffed up and coughing after two days of having the chills. Worst of all, the sickness is making my gout act up so I have to sort of hobble around, too.