"It's the hours leading up to Canada Day which the staff at Willow Cakes and Pastry enjoy the most.
It's that time of the year where they help bake and assemble a four-foot by eight-foot birthday cake that will be consumed by several hundred people on Canada Day.
The cake is part of the 'giant cakewalk,' one of the highlights of the July 1 festivities. It's so integral that the cake is loaded on the back of a truck and paraded down Queen Street to Simcoe Park."
One Canada Day, when I worked for a local MPP, I helped cut and serve one of these giant cakes. It was a little like being in a Mexican nightclub fire where people are trampled to death in a race for the exit. Only this was a race for sugary goodness. You'd think these folks were the last survivors of some horrible famine. Every fibre of their being was focused on getting that little square of red and white cake into their bellies. I was terrified by the desperately demented look in their eyes as they swarmed me and I never participated in this event again.
Happy Canada Day!
ReplyDeleteI tried to get the day off, but it didn't fly.
You should have told them that you don't have time to work - too busy blogging.
ReplyDeleteok-so the mystery cake was a big canada flag like thing with giant cookies - thirteen of 'em each bearing the provincial/territorial crests - a real work of art - sorry, no pic!
ReplyDeleteI would have seen it, albeit from a safe distance, but I was nursing a sick Mr. Nag. Hope you got a piece without getting trampled.
ReplyDeleteHappy Canada Day to you from Quebec ;)
ReplyDeleteMerci!
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