But wikipedia says:
It is usually prepared as a layer cake somewhere between vanilla and chocolate in flavor
And my understanding was that it was a chemical reaction with the cocoa that made it red. I no taste no cocoa.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2010 6:47:19 am PST #5700 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Nov 16, 2010 6:48:19 am PST #5701 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I read that this morning! Pumpkins! Metaphors! If only it also referenced semi-colons, it might be the perfect comic.
And artificially seasonal food!
Amy - Nov 16, 2010 6:48:29 am PST #5702 of 30001
Because books.
I had red velvet cake a week ago and it was just really sweet. Although that might have been the super-sweet icing. Didn't taste like chocolate to me, either.
Jesse - Nov 16, 2010 6:48:38 am PST #5703 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's somewhat cocoa-ish, but not a chocolate cake, is all. I think that's usually what people don't like about it. And the red is food coloring.
zuisa - Nov 16, 2010 6:50:57 am PST #5704 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Today's students are basically flat-out refusing to do work. Their teacher is going to get quite the note.
ALSO, my brother linked me this recipe for mint chocolate chip cookies and I am very excited to give them a try. They look GLORIOUS.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2010 6:52:41 am PST #5705 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, I scraped off all the icing, as I always do with anything that's not ganache. It was still just sweet cake, with no hint of cocoa that I could distinguish, not even in a white chocolate sense. Very disappointing. The cassis/blueberry tea was tasty though, and props to them for not making me have to remember what cassis is in English, because it never sticks.
Ginger - Nov 16, 2010 6:54:30 am PST #5706 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It has cocoa, but not enough to make it really chocolate. It seems I read somewhere that the original recipe had a reddish cast from the cocoa, but then people started adding food coloring to make it really red. It's really only an excuse for cream cheese frosting.
DavidS - Nov 16, 2010 7:03:51 am PST #5707 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh. IO9 had a clip of from the episode Ben Edlund wrote for Supernatural. It's pretty funny, and seems to get into the meta of the show.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2010 7:07:24 am PST #5708 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the episode Ben Edlund wrote for Supernatural
The episode? You mean the episode this week? Because he's written a bunch, and meta's kinda common ground for the show. They've written their fandom into their canon already.
Steph L. - Nov 16, 2010 7:07:31 am PST #5709 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I read that this morning! Pumpkins! Metaphors! If only it also referenced semi-colons, it might be the perfect comic.
And artificially seasonal food!
Oh my god, I glossed right over that. Mallomars!