King Cake!!!!!

[FlameOfCallandor]

Mardi Gras is coming!!

The traditional trinket in the cake is a bean, still seen in some European traditions but rare in U.S. king cakes. It is echoed, however, in some Krewes' use of a gilded bean trinket.
Since the 1950s, the most common trinket has been a small plastic baby. Many people say this represents the baby Jesus, tied in to the connection with Epiphany. Many people attach no particular religious significance to the cake or trinket. The "baby in the king cake" was said to have become common after a local bakery chain got a large shipment of such plastic baby dolls from Hong Kong very cheaply in the 1950s, and some people say there is little further significance to the baby, but earlier ceramic baby dolls as trinkets are documented in New Orleans back to at least the 1930s. Running a distant second to babies, a trinket representing a king wearing a crown is the next most common design of trinket. Trinkets in the form of other figures have also been seen historically, and starting in the 1990s again became more common in the more expensive "gourmet" varieties of king cake.

The person who gets the trinket is declared king or queen of the party, sometimes given a paper, plastic, or costume jewelry crown or tiara. Sometimes there are separate cakes to select the male and female royalty; the one for women is sometimes called a queen cake. The monarch is usually obligated to supply the next king cake or host the next party or both. King cake parties may be held at the homes of people who live on or near the routes of Carnival parades.
It is a common practice in elementary schools to have King cake parties, usually on a Friday. The person who gets the trinket is required to bring the cake the following week.
In some office work places, a variation on this tradition is simplified so that workers share a king cake at lunch or during the day, with the person getting the trinket having to bring the cake for the next work day, with no other ceremony.
Some Krewes select their monarchs via king cake.

[TVC15]

What the fuck.  It looks like a clown jizzed on a giant donut.

[FlameOfCallandor]

What the fuck.  It looks like a clown jizzed on a giant donut.

 

Do you know what Mardi Gras is?

[TVC15]

It was some sort of gay pride event in that underwater city, was it not?

[Cheebs]

I went to New Orleans a couple years ago during Mardi Gras lol


Nowhere near as fun as you would think.

[FlameOfCallandor]

It was some sort of gay pride event in that underwater city, was it not?

Mardi Gras has been around for over three centuries. Gay people didnt exist back then.

[Cheebs]

It was some sort of gay pride event in that underwater city, was it not?

Mardi Gras has been around for over three centuries. Gay people didnt exist back then.

I hope that is sarcasm since gay people have been around longer than three centuries, longer than civilized mankind I would suspect.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Joke Alert, Joke Alert.

[Mupepe]

Mardi Gras is pretty meh.  Sure there are titties.  But there's also a lot of assholes.  Not to mention I can either go to shitty New Orleans or shitty Galveston.  Blue Oyster Cult and Better Than Ezra are in Galveston this year, so I think I'll go to New Orleans.  lolz  j/k.  I like both bands.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Galveston is terrible. I grew up in Louisiana so we had Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. All the smaller parties with friends are great!

[Cheebs]

Mardi Gras is pretty meh.  Sure there are titties.  But there's also a lot of assholes.

Agreed. Mardi Gras was a let down when I went.

[Mupepe]

Galveston is terrible. I grew up in Louisiana so we had Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. All the smaller parties with friends are great!

So why not just have parties with friends?  It can be like Mardi Gras every day! 

[Yeti]

You're such a cakeboy FoC. 

[BlueTsunami]

FoC is going to be checkin out the dudes with the skimp loin clothes

[FlameOfCallandor]

FoC is going to be checkin out the dudes with the skimp loin clothes

That's the cigarillo parade, in other words New Orleans the rest of the year.

[xnikki118x]

I put dead babies in my cakes.