Slog - Comments on It's Merely a Trifle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle I am about to FedEx someone a cake. I fully expect it to arrive looking not much like a cake. Banged up, smeary, sad. But this person happens to be out of town right now, but needs this cake this week, and in an email I was just composing to her I wrote: "Perhaps you can make a parfait out of it. (Does parfait have cake in it? Layers of cake and yogurt/pudding? Wikipedia says that's not parfait. What am I thinking of?)" I know there is a dessert that is cake layered with yogurt or pudding or cream, usually... Copyright 2008 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:06:32 -0800 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:44:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by reverend dr dj riz are you gonna put booze in it ?
can i have some ?
please ?
pretty please ?
with a cherry on top ?

]]> reverend dr dj riz http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772458 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772458 Chow Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:27:13 -0800 Comment by toni You totally have to put booze on the sponge, aka pieces of broken cake. And the British put a layer of jello in it (they call it jelly, those weirdos). The cream layer can be pastry cream or custard. Bird's custard out of a can is not as good as homemade custard. And you need to put sprinkles on the whipped cream on top. Then it's really festive.

]]> toni http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772481 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772481 Chow Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:02:34 -0800 Comment by Gitai Fuck the librarians! You can ask me this shit! My friends know me as a wealth of useless information.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772493 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772493 Chow Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:49:32 -0800 Comment by KENTUCKY KERNEL OF TRUTH ...and when you've grown weary of trifle, there's always syllabub and spotted dick; odd that the effete Brits would have invented such masculine-sounding desserts...

]]> KENTUCKY KERNEL OF TRUTH http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772495 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772495 Chow Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:55:00 -0800 Comment by josh cake (yogurt OR pudding) layers glass =
[google]

sounds delicious!

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772498 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772498 Chow Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:08:16 -0800 Comment by Nat Google won't replace librarians, but it will replace libraries.

]]> Nat http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772529 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772529 Chow Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:41:15 -0800 Comment by kinaidos If the recipient of said probably scrambled cake merely adopts the expedient of consuming gin until they can no longer say syllabub (ok that's too easy - until they can no longer pronounce trifle), then the cake will seem quite fine and proper whatever state it arrives in.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772560 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772560 Chow Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:43:22 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger Gee, Fed Exing cake. You can do it if you first freeze the cake and then package it in some dry ice in a styrofoam container. Swiss Colony ships pastries like that and it does not destroy the look or flavor of the items.

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772588 Chow Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:10:45 -0800 Comment by annie I actually paraphrased my friend as saying, Google will never replace librarians, because librarians know how to use Google.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772641 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772641 Chow Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:25:44 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi It's just like Desk Set.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772679 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772679 Chow Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:37:14 -0800 Comment by war pigs my mother must have made 1,000 trifles when i was growing up. I didn't like them that much until I realized that they were way easy to make and you could just put a bunch of alcohol in it =)

]]> war pigs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772787 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c772787 Chow Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:49:57 -0800 Comment by Garret Kelly "Annie Wagner said, “My friend Caroline says, Google will never replace librarians.”"

Let's hope you're right. But what might this turn into ?


Google Voice Local Search

]]> Garret Kelly http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c773022 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c773022 Chow Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:47:29 -0800 Comment by gracious librarian While I applaud you wanting to treat the librarians, DON'T bring homemade foods. Librarians deal with a lot of crazies that love us as much as you do, and we have to assume that anything left as a snack that doesn't come from someone we personally* know might be tainted with drugs, poison, body fluids, etc. You think I'm kidding, but most of us would rather be safe than take food of unknown origin from 20-40% of the people we deal with.

A nice gift is something like a Whitman's Sampler: a thick box protected by cellophane.That way we know you want to give us chocolate and not merely have a way to transmit your voodoo love potion made from your sweat to our unwitting mouths. Otherwise we'll probably throw away untouched whatever homemade edibles you bring to us.

*if the librarians know you as a local journalist, they might be okay with it. but then again, the last stranger staffer to mention offering sweets to public servants was dan savage, and we all know what was in those cookies....

]]> gracious librarian http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c773169 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/its_merely_a_trifle#c773169 Chow Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:44:48 -0800