Nancy Kelly Quits Stonewall

[OhHolyJesus]

The tweet, sharing without comment. For now at least!

https://twitter.com/nancymmk/status/1678389649515982849?s=46&t=3vhGKDq77qvuwlnTiE6jg

Why are people talking about cake?

We like cake.

Good to see you've dragged her up right. (Is there any other way to eat squirty cream?)

I trust you have more cans being delivered this afternoon!

It's a thread about the head TRA it would be rude not to.

I now have a mental image of a bowl of cream-filled chocolate profiteroles with so much double cream poured over them that it's lapping the edge of the bowl.

Shouldn't that post have s "sensitive content" warning?

😊

While we're doing patisserie porn, check out these French fruit tarts.

(starts looking up trains to France)

actual footage chez moi.

Lemon drizzle cake is the 24th most popular cake in the UK, apparently

Only because no one can actually think of 24+ types of cake. Really scraping the barrel by the time you're that far down the list.

I tried making a rainbow cake for Pride but the pink and baby blue colouring ran and ruined the rest of the cake...

Just out of curiosity, did apple cake make the rankings? I'm just curious, not invested at all <nervously bites nails that still taste better than carrot cake>

My MiL made a wedding cake once for a family member, so quite an important gig as cakery goes. It was one of them there red velvet things. She decided to make it without eggs and regular flour so that she could 'try some of it' as she'd put herself on a strange diet. Apparently the bride and groom were made aware of this the day before but went 'wet lettuce'.

Adult DSD and I were sitting next to each other at the wedding reception as we tried it, and let's just say that the experience of trying to chew and swallow one mouthful of this turgid loam while still smiling politely brought us closer together in adversity.

Feminist moral-of-the-tale. This perfectly illustrates female socialisation: smile and try to be polite, even when you are being served up something revolting.

As an exclusively same sex attracted biological natal female (I think those words haven't been wholly mugged of all meaning yet, I used to be just a lesbian)

cake is a much, much nicer thing to be talking about than the hell of Stonewall speaking for/against/over me. Largely about how cock would do me so much good in making me a more acceptable human being that serves male interests properly.

Anyway, Beetle's reported me for hate crimes against drizzle cakes, so I might as well enjoy myself and make some cup cakes for the keystone cops and the fox botherer when they arrive panting on the drive with scolds' bridles in hand. It's not even like these days there's any ducking stools locally, you have to feel for the poor twits.

Not in the top 30 in the survey I quoted, though apple pie was in there.

Apple cake was 23rd most popular in another survey I found, but that was well below lemon drizzle cake, which was 4th.

You're safe. When they realised it was a woman trying to report a woman they hung up.

Battenberg is the cake of the devil, and not in a Devil's Food Cake type of way.

Who is standing up for coffee and walnut cakes? The most oppressed and marginalised cakes in the cake shop.

Phew.

(Takes Ben's wren off speed dial.)

I am vaguely amused that here we are in clown world and we're not taking it seriously enough .....

Usually I stand up for the coffee and the walnuts. However Sainsbury's currently have a summer edition vanilla latte cake which sits next to those and the carrot cake (is it because you don't think vegetables should be in cake @IcakethereforeIam or is it just an irrational hatred?) And the vanilla latte cake is so nice that I reckon with a bit more practice i could eat the whole cake in one sitting.

Coffee and walnut is my sister's favourite. I have a soft spot for Battenburg, I like deconstructing it when I was a child.

Apple pie isn't even a cake! I think apple cake would be more popular if it was better known.

Isn't there a kind of mix of rock cake and scone called yorkshire fat bastards or something?

I really relate to them, but I feel pretty sure they've got all kinds of power points in the D&D cake stakes.

Fat rascals (although I think it'll be 'bastards' going forward).

@Boiledbeetle it's the icing, far, far too sweet. I'm the only person in my house who likes coffee, must pop round to Sainsburys.

I had something once called 'war cake', apologies for the dreadful cod Geordie accents we adopted while ordering this.

To actually answer your question. There can be many reasons, but i find it tends to be where there is a lull on the information coming in with regards to the thing the thread is about. So whilst we are in a holding pattern we talk about food.

Now I really want some lemon drizzle cake…

We did a de facto 'cake survey' a few weeks ago. More people made lemon drizzle than anything else but chocolate still topped the sales stakes. Gluten free was over catered for. All cake was consumed and no cake was wasted as part of this experiment.

But to ensure the information is as up to date as possible it's best to repeat the survey on a daily regular basis surely!