Fat Tuesday and we’ve run amok

I was completely gob-smacked. Ava had never heard of King Cake. How is it possible there is a cake out there she is unfamiliar with?

It all started with an instant message conversation. I noted that I would be willing to eat a cake with a baby in it. Ava was alarmed, which is the appropriate response if one doesn’t know what King Cake is.  For those of you out there who don’t know what King Cake is, before I tell you, I want to know where you’ve been keeping yourself? It is unfathomable to me that Ava doesn’t know what it is, so you may not either, although I did take an unofficial poll which consisted of me yelling the question out to our office mates and everyone else knew what King Cake is.

Wikipedia has a large entry that gives a concise history and its international variations of the cake. As far as how it’s celebrated in New Orleans and surrounding areas, the person who gets the baby trinket in their piece gets to be King or Queen for the day. Why in God’s name would Ava not be sold on that fact? I’m totally in. Queen for the day? Yes, ma’am!

Also, it is suggested the person that gets the baby will also HAVE a baby. Well, neither of us is having a human baby, but Ava is dying for a kitten and a kitten is a baby cat. I’d be very happy for a baby hedgehog or a prehensile porcupine baby.

Nevertheless, she was confident I was making the whole thing up. Ava’s like that. I suggested that she doesn’t know everything, but that did not make my case either. When I pointed out that she didn’t know that polar bears and penguins actually never meet in the wild as they live on opposite poles of the Earth, she didn’t believe that either.

My knowledge of stupid stuff is epic, people. 98% of the crap I know is not important, life saving, or integral to the day-to-day operation of living life but if you need to know something inane or trivial beyond measure, I’m your gal.

Still, I absolute cannot fathom how Ava didn’t know about a cake that can make you Queen for a day and get you a kitten.