3518: High and Dry
I found this interesting:DEAR ABBY: My son was married a short time ago. The reception was held at my condo member hall. After the reception, the bride and groom asked me to refrigerate the leftover bottom layer of the wedding cake. They said they'd pick it up the next day.
Six days later, the cake was still in my fridge. They made excuses every day for not picking it up. Finally, I threw it away.
Now I'm the bad guy, and the bride is demanding an apology. Abby, the cake was hard and crusty, and I felt six days was long enough. Was I wrong in dumping the cake? -- FATHER OF THE GROOM IN FORT WORTH
DEAR FATHER: Let me put it this way -- rather than storing the cake in the fridge, it should have immediately gone into the freezer so it could be eaten at a later date. But because that didn't happen, and the cake was fit only to be used as a paving stone or a doorstop, the logical thing to do was throw it away.
It seems out of nowhere, but the cake I mooched the day after the above column was run is now over a week old and, other than a vague decline in quality [I remember when it was fresh and can tell], it's still good and tasty, as Pa Mugg will attest [even without knowing how old it was].
So perhaps gourmet cakes are worth the extra dough [lawl]? =p I mean, leftovers that will keep well even merely refrigerated vs. freezed as per the above would be a good party investment... except for the minimum 18-cake order part ¬_¬; [which would send me elsewhere for refreshments, if I couldn't make some kind of arrangement at work]
Six days later, the cake was still in my fridge. They made excuses every day for not picking it up. Finally, I threw it away.
Now I'm the bad guy, and the bride is demanding an apology. Abby, the cake was hard and crusty, and I felt six days was long enough. Was I wrong in dumping the cake? -- FATHER OF THE GROOM IN FORT WORTH
DEAR FATHER: Let me put it this way -- rather than storing the cake in the fridge, it should have immediately gone into the freezer so it could be eaten at a later date. But because that didn't happen, and the cake was fit only to be used as a paving stone or a doorstop, the logical thing to do was throw it away.
It seems out of nowhere, but the cake I mooched the day after the above column was run is now over a week old and, other than a vague decline in quality [I remember when it was fresh and can tell], it's still good and tasty, as Pa Mugg will attest [even without knowing how old it was].
So perhaps gourmet cakes are worth the extra dough [lawl]? =p I mean, leftovers that will keep well even merely refrigerated vs. freezed as per the above would be a good party investment... except for the minimum 18-cake order part ¬_¬; [which would send me elsewhere for refreshments, if I couldn't make some kind of arrangement at work]