Mardi Gras Season:::::::::::::::
Mardi Gras Season:::::::::::::::
“Carnival” , Mari Gras, Fat Tuesday….. all synonyms for a season down here I have not seen anything like before. It starts like Halloween in Colorado, suddenly there is an empty isle in the grocery store, then just as suddenly it is full of Purple/Gold/Green flashy things like tinsel wigs and bundles of beads for $6.00…. The Parade schedules are announced and people that I work with start planning which days they are going to be off, which they are going to be late and which they are going to be hung over.
There are funny names for parades… by the way, Mardi Gras is a day.. Feb 28th (this year) but actually represents a season and the “parties” are just parades with floats that throw beads. The Parades have themes…. Some of the funnier names I have heard this year include one in Baton Rouge that I cannot confirm “FEMA-ture Jackulation” at least they have a sense of humor. I have been horrified to learn that women do NOT have to show their breasts to get beads… turns out if you are not careful people will hit you right in the face with them… beads.. not breasts..
There is also Mardi Gras food. One traditional thing is something called a King Cake. They are rings, often they are filled with strawberry or lemon or cream cheese or come combination.. sometimes they are praline. The way they are used, someone buys a King Cake (by the way they are spray colored GOLD/GREEN/PURPLE with granular sugar and white sugar icing on top like a cinnamon roll you buy at the grocery store).. the person that buys the cake takes it somewhere like the office and it is cut and eaten. Inside there is a plastic baby… about an inch long… the person that gets the baby has to buy the NEXT King Cake…. Leave it to this state to put a choking hazard in a snack food and turn it into gambling.
More as this season progresses.
“Carnival” , Mari Gras, Fat Tuesday….. all synonyms for a season down here I have not seen anything like before. It starts like Halloween in Colorado, suddenly there is an empty isle in the grocery store, then just as suddenly it is full of Purple/Gold/Green flashy things like tinsel wigs and bundles of beads for $6.00…. The Parade schedules are announced and people that I work with start planning which days they are going to be off, which they are going to be late and which they are going to be hung over.
There are funny names for parades… by the way, Mardi Gras is a day.. Feb 28th (this year) but actually represents a season and the “parties” are just parades with floats that throw beads. The Parades have themes…. Some of the funnier names I have heard this year include one in Baton Rouge that I cannot confirm “FEMA-ture Jackulation” at least they have a sense of humor. I have been horrified to learn that women do NOT have to show their breasts to get beads… turns out if you are not careful people will hit you right in the face with them… beads.. not breasts..
There is also Mardi Gras food. One traditional thing is something called a King Cake. They are rings, often they are filled with strawberry or lemon or cream cheese or come combination.. sometimes they are praline. The way they are used, someone buys a King Cake (by the way they are spray colored GOLD/GREEN/PURPLE with granular sugar and white sugar icing on top like a cinnamon roll you buy at the grocery store).. the person that buys the cake takes it somewhere like the office and it is cut and eaten. Inside there is a plastic baby… about an inch long… the person that gets the baby has to buy the NEXT King Cake…. Leave it to this state to put a choking hazard in a snack food and turn it into gambling.
More as this season progresses.
posted by Steve Morse- Adventures in Disasters at 5:30 PM
1 Comments:
A fun read. We would like to see a picture of a King Cake. Mom
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