I read recently that 'they' think there should be less cake eating occasions - birthdays, people leaving a job, people starting a job, and all sorts of other times when people celebrate with a cake. The alternative should be a fruit platter 'they' said.
Good luck with that, I thought.
But I did a bit more thinking.
Do we have too many celebrations? Many things for which to be thankful. So that celebrating becomes mundane. I well remember the tradition that my husband brought to our family of Sunday lollies. The story goes that he and his siblings would take it in turns to have lunch with Gran (who lived next door) on Sundays and would return bearing the lollies to share. Just one or two each. We carried the idea of Sunday lollies into our family and at least one of our children has a version of it in operation.
Now lollies seem to be the go all the time along with chocolate. And cakes.
I have long used chocolate frogs as currency to thank workmates, to reward those who get the right answer in children's spots in church an d so on. It just wouldn't seem the same to hand out a banana. Although I must admit that when children came knocking on our door at Halloween we offered them a carrot (no we didn't confuse them with the Easter Bunny) and some even were gad to accept.
So next time there is a celebration for which you are expected to take food, it's simple. A bunch of carrots should do the trick...
Our next door neighbour would sometimes watch out for our youngest when he got off the school bus school and 'just happened' to have made biscuits or cakes and made too many.!! Would he have loved a carrot...dunno!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds sweet. I'm sure nobody would suggest all cakes and biscuits should be replaced by carrots. Carrot cake, perhaps?
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