Mardi Gras 2024

[Magicman]

The 2024 New Orleans Carnival season started on Saturday, Jan. 6, and concludes on Mardi Gras, Tuesday Feb. 13, soooo

It was time to buy a King Cake.  It's a highly decorated cinnamon roll.  The plastic baby seen on top is supposed to be baked within the cake but they posed a choking danger, especially with children, so now they are placed on top of the cake. 

[Wlmedley]

MM, what's the story on having a plastic baby and coins on something you eat

[21incher]

Now I have seen everything.  That cake looks gross.  :xyxnervous: 

[Jeff]

Now I have seen everything.  That cake looks gross.  :xyxnervous:

I can assure you, it tastes nothing like it looks. Like Lynn said, Its like a huge gooey heavily iced cinnamon roll. except in has NOLA colors and sprinkles. 

[Magicman]

MM, what's the story on having a plastic baby and coins on something you eat

This is the first time that I have ever seen coins on top so ??

For the baby I suggest using Google: "baby in a king cake" for some interesting reading.

[Magicman]

A previous year's King Cake:

This one had a baby, colored sugar, and beads.

[Southside]

I don't even want to know what you displayed to get those beads MM  :wiseguy:

[21incher]

Now I have seen everything.  That cake looks gross.  :xyxnervous:

I can assure you, it tastes nothing like it looks. Like Lynn said, Its like a huge gooey heavily iced cinnamon roll. except in has NOLA colors and sprinkles. 

I couldn't get past that baby hairless mouse cooked into it :coolsmiley:. I just  burned a nest full of them  :xyxnervous:

[Magicman]

I don't understand the negative comments. ??  :-\
Comparing a King Cake baby to a dead mouse is very much below the usual professionalism displayed here.

King Cakes, babies, beads, and coins are all New Orleans Mardi Gras traditions.

[Magicman]

Some previous years Mardi Gras Babies:

[Wlmedley]

MM, I took your advice and looked it up on google. Wasn't being negative just curious. If they would help my luck I'm all for it. I guess it's kind of like putting candles on a birthday cake 

[21incher]

I don't understand the negative comments. ??  :-\
Comparing a King Cake baby to a dead mouse is very much below the usual professionalism displayed here.

King Cakes, babies, beads, and coins are all New Orleans Mardi Gras traditions.

When I first saw that cake on my phone the little thing on top looked like the nest of just born mice I found in the firewood pile on the porch in the morning and threw in the woodstove. Little naked things on their backs 🙈. 

[Magicman]

21, As far as I am concerned, comparing something that I was going to eat to dead mice was in very poor form.  Think what you want, but that did not justify putting it here on the open forum.   :-\

[Magicman]

Wasn't being negative just curious.

Bill, in no way was my "negative comment" directed toward you.  Yes, a Google search took you to some of the very early Mardi Gras history.

[beenthere]

21
Some things are best left un-said. 

[21incher]

Everyone has their own opinions and I tell it like I see it.  That cake just is not right in my opinion  :vanish:

[beenthere]

21
Won't "tell it like I see" what the beef/pork meatloaf dish could look like, just sayin. Better judgement prevails. 

[21incher]

21
Won't "tell it like I see" what the beef/pork meatloaf dish could look like, just sayin. Better judgement prevails.

My granddaughter won't  eat it either. She thinks she is a Vegan but eats chicken. Better judgment isn't putting a naked baby on a cake in my opinion. 

[Jeff]

Alright. Lineup. Shake hands.

[Old Greenhorn]

[Jeff]

Some previous years Mardi Gras Babies:

Magic, so you know, having that many babies will make you fat

[Magicman]

Yes but note that they span 5 years. 

I just finished a slice of King Cake with my coffee.  Wish you were here. 

[Jeff]

Ida ate 2!

[Old Greenhorn]

Who is Ida? smiley_angel02_wings :wiggle:

[Jeff]

Who is Ida? smiley_angel02_wings :wiggle:

uno's sister.

[Magicman]

We are going to New Orleans tomorrow and we will probably see Ida and her sister Uno.

[Jeff]

That one with one leg longer than the other skipping along with them? That'll be sister Ilene.

[Old Greenhorn]

[Magicman]

That'll be sister Ilene.

Actually it is Irlene.  I had forgotten that you met her when you were here.  She is the one that we bought our Crawfish from.  She now wears a thicker sole/heel on the shorter leg and her gait is barely noticeable. 

Because of her earlier disability, she actually started the family's King Cake venture and is still the driving force behind the business.  They are three lovely and hard working ladies.  In another month they will be selling Strawberries which are widely grown in the Ponchatoula area.  Irlene sets up a fruit stand here in Brookhaven with her colorful umbrella selling Strawberries and also their wide variety of Cookies.  Their Cookies are sorta expensive, but what the heck, we only get them once a year.

Anyway, we will head South a bit after 10:00 this morning.  The weather looks good and there are not any Mardi Gras parades until tomorrow so maybe we won't have too much traffic.  We will eat lunch at Middendorfs in Manchac.

[Resonator]

Ida Noe is Knottmee's sister. They both show up when the boss asks who did it...

[beenthere]

I'd like to get back to New Orleans sometime, if nothing else but to see if "Mother's" is still there serving Po Boy's on Poydras St. 

[Magicman]

I have never left New Orleans, Florida, nor California with any intention of ever going back, but alas, I have returned to all three of them several times.