Let Them What?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
It doesn’t have the imperious and flippant ring to it of Let them eat cake!*. It’s perhaps more of a friendly exhortation, or an answer to what to serve at a relaxed dinner with friends while there are still long evenings left to enjoy. And maybe that’s what appeals about this little card**...
That, and it didn’t say Keep calm and have a pav! Which might have prompted an onset of the colliewobbles. As opposed to keeping calm and carrying a pavlova, which just can’t happen owing the the worry about it collapsing, or dropping it, or the cream slithering off in the humidity, or some other such catastrophe.
Although letting them eat pavlova isn’t necessarily the issue – stopping them eating pavlova might be more of a challenge. It’s the cold, quiet hours when it lurks unattended in the fridge when danger is most likely...
* Even if that wasn’t really what Marie Antoinette said in the first place, which is pretty much beside the point by now...
** I wonder, though, what the appropriate occasion is for such a greeting? Or if it's for gluttonous typophiles (moi?!) to pin on their noticeboards.
