to think that if you're rich enough

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you can mess up a Pavlova and no one dares to tell you it's a disaster, instead they pretend that you invented a new dessert and call it Eton mess!!!

Absolutely.
You don't ned to be rich though. I do the same, you just need enough chutzpah.

yeah, but if you have Eton chutzpah you can sell your disaster too

Or you can make a perfect pavlova and serve it in glass dishes and let the boys mess it up themselves.

I was all ready to say YABU but YANBU

That's the real story of Eton mess, isn't it?

true so true

I much prefer Eton Mess to a Pavlova though!

So good call!

AIBU to love the word chutzpah even though I have never used it in RL?

You can also ignore the rules of football, pick up the ball and run with it, and then just say that you've invented a new game!

"you can mess up a Pavlova and no one dares to tell you it's a disaster, instead they pretend that you invented a new dessert and call it Eton mess!!!"

Sorry to be pedantic but a quick Google reveals that Pavlova was created in honour of the dancer in the 1920s whereas Eton Mess has been known by that name since the 19th century. So it's more likely that someone invented the new dessert of Pavlova by taking an Eton mess and gluing it together

The one sure thing about Eton mess is that the meringues always turn out perfectly formed and it's heartbreaking to smash up such works of culinary art.

If I want meringues for any other recipe they always emerge cracked and broken. The little bastards.

And if you drop the berries by accident next to the bowl of meringue, you can leave them there and call it a Deconstructed Eton Mess