But wikipedia says:
It is usually prepared as a layer cake somewhere between vanilla and chocolate in flavor
And my understanding was that it was a chemical reaction with the cocoa that made it red. I no taste no cocoa.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2010 6:47:19 am PST #5700 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Nov 16, 2010 6:48:19 am PST #5701 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I read that this morning! Pumpkins! Metaphors! If only it also referenced semi-colons, it might be the perfect comic.
And artificially seasonal food!
Amy - Nov 16, 2010 6:48:29 am PST #5702 of 30001
Because books.
I had red velvet cake a week ago and it was just really sweet. Although that might have been the super-sweet icing. Didn't taste like chocolate to me, either.
Jesse - Nov 16, 2010 6:48:38 am PST #5703 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's somewhat cocoa-ish, but not a chocolate cake, is all. I think that's usually what people don't like about it. And the red is food coloring.
zuisa - Nov 16, 2010 6:50:57 am PST #5704 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Today's students are basically flat-out refusing to do work. Their teacher is going to get quite the note.
ALSO, my brother linked me this recipe for mint chocolate chip cookies and I am very excited to give them a try. They look GLORIOUS.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2010 6:52:41 am PST #5705 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, I scraped off all the icing, as I always do with anything that's not ganache. It was still just sweet cake, with no hint of cocoa that I could distinguish, not even in a white chocolate sense. Very disappointing. The cassis/blueberry tea was tasty though, and props to them for not making me have to remember what cassis is in English, because it never sticks.
Ginger - Nov 16, 2010 6:54:30 am PST #5706 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It has cocoa, but not enough to make it really chocolate. It seems I read somewhere that the original recipe had a reddish cast from the cocoa, but then people started adding food coloring to make it really red. It's really only an excuse for cream cheese frosting.
DavidS - Nov 16, 2010 7:03:51 am PST #5707 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh. IO9 had a clip of from the episode Ben Edlund wrote for Supernatural. It's pretty funny, and seems to get into the meta of the show.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2010 7:07:24 am PST #5708 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the episode Ben Edlund wrote for Supernatural
The episode? You mean the episode this week? Because he's written a bunch, and meta's kinda common ground for the show. They've written their fandom into their canon already.
Steph L. - Nov 16, 2010 7:07:31 am PST #5709 of 30001
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
I read that this morning! Pumpkins! Metaphors! If only it also referenced semi-colons, it might be the perfect comic.
And artificially seasonal food!
Oh my god, I glossed right over that. Mallomars!