Thread: What to drink with birthday cake

[email protected] said...

> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.


Stupid post of the year nominee!!!

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>I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.
>

Milk, tea or coffee. That's it for me.

Paul

"Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
> [email protected] said...
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>> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
>> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
>
>
> Stupid post of the year nominee!!!

For Sale, Cheap! One broken irony meter. Needle spun right off.

Paco said...

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> "Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
>> [email protected] said...
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>>> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
>>> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
>>
>>
>> Stupid post of the year nominee!!!
>
> For Sale, Cheap! One broken irony meter. Needle spun right off.


OK, Paco el Taco, YOU win the stupid post of the year!

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"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
> Tom

Milk or coffee.


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Andy said...

> [email protected] said...
>
>> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
>> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.


Who in their right mind, in their entire life, actually gave it any thought?

Paul, Paco and Melba!

Andy

Tom wrote:

> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.

Depends on what kind of cake and frosting comprise the birthday cake. A
lemony cake would go well with some kind of lemon soda (e.g., Sprite or
7-Up). It would also go all right with iced tea. A chocolate cake (or yellow
cake with chocolate frosting) would go well with coffee, milk, orange soda
(or orange-flavored fruit punch), or a White Russian. A banana cake would go
well with a piña colada, chocolate milk, or rum & coke.

Did you have some specific cake and icing in mind?

Bob

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:40:07 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
<virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote:


>Depends on what kind of cake and frosting comprise the birthday cake. A
>lemony cake would go well with some kind of lemon soda (e.g., Sprite or
>7-Up). It would also go all right with iced tea. A chocolate cake (or yellow
>cake with chocolate frosting) would go well with coffee, milk, orange soda
>(or orange-flavored fruit punch), or a White Russian. A banana cake would go
>well with a piña colada, chocolate milk, or rum & coke.
>
>Did you have some specific cake and icing in mind?
>
>Bob
>
>

I agree with Bob.
Then there are some decadent cakes that are made that are wonderful
with a glass of a dessert wine.

I used to make, and still rarely do, some cakes from the chocolate
maven Alice Medrich. They are European style, most of them, and they
go well with something like port, or in one case where I made such a
cake, a raspberry "wine". For the cake in question, which I made to
serve some friends of mine, they brought a little bottle of a
raspberry dessert wine from Bonny Doon. It was a match made in
heaven, with the dark chocolate ganache and the raspberry.

Christine
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http://nightstirrings.blogspot.com

On Jul 14, 4:38*pm, "tomba...@city-net.com" <tomba...@city-net.com>
wrote:
> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.
>
The last time it mattered to me I was eight and asked for Hawaiian
punch, which they made from syrup. It was perfect. The only one who
can answer the question is the birthday boy or girl. -aem

[email protected] wrote:
> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.
>
> Tom


I agree with milk, coffee, or water with cake.

When I was very young I liked sips of beer with chocolate cake.
Now not so much.

gloria p

"Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
> Paco said...
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>> "Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]..
>>> [email protected] said...
>>>
>>>> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
>>>> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
>>>
>>>
>>> Stupid post of the year nominee!!!
>>
>> For Sale, Cheap! One broken irony meter. Needle spun right off.
>
>
> OK, Paco el Taco, YOU win the stupid post of the year!

Why, thank you, Andy. You flatter me. However, I am not worthy of such a
prestigious award. My post pales in comparison to some of the "gems" that
have been authored by "others".

On Tue 14 Jul 2009 08:16:21p, Gloria P told us...

> [email protected] wrote:
>> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
>> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
>> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
>> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.
>>
>> Tom
>
>
> I agree with milk, coffee, or water with cake.

For everyone else, I agree, but for me it would always be unsweetened iced
tea.

> When I was very young I liked sips of beer with chocolate cake.
> Now not so much.

If I have it on hand, I always drink buttermilk with chocolate cake,
particularly German's Chocolate Cake.

Having said that, when I was in college I can remember having many a
chocolate ice cream soda made with beer.

> gloria p
>



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[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.

I do not normally eat any kind of sweet cake if I can help it, but
sometimes I am compelled to have a bite, to appease a particularly
vicious birthday girl or boy. A sparkling Moscato d'Asti or even a good
Asti Spumante would go very well with many kinds of cakes and other
desserts. Depending on the cake, the right kind of beer can be the best
thing to accompany it. An Imperial stout (especially with chocolate- or
coffee-based cakes or desserts) or a fruit-based beer, such as a Belgian
framboise or kriek are definitely to be considered. In both cases, wine
and beer, it is not just their particular flavours that make them work -
it is also their palate-cleansing carbonation.

Victor

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> [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
>> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
>> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
>> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.
>
> I do not normally eat any kind of sweet cake if I can help it, but
> sometimes I am compelled to have a bite, to appease a particularly
> vicious birthday girl or boy. A sparkling Moscato d'Asti or even a good
> Asti Spumante would go very well with many kinds of cakes and other
> desserts. Depending on the cake, the right kind of beer can be the best
> thing to accompany it. An Imperial stout (especially with chocolate- or
> coffee-based cakes or desserts) or a fruit-based beer, such as a Belgian
> framboise or kriek are definitely to be considered. In both cases, wine
> and beer, it is not just their particular flavours that make them work -
> it is also their palate-cleansing carbonation.
>

Nah, milk or coffee or tea.

<[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio

>I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.
>
> Tom

Champagne. It's an inspired pairing, really.

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:11:20 +0200, "Giusi" <[email protected]>
wrote:


>Champagne. It's an inspired pairing, really.
>

Oooh yes. Champagne is great. A dessert wine can be wonderful too...

Christine
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http://nightstirrings.blogspot.com

Victor Sack wrote:

> I do not normally eat any kind of sweet cake if I can help it, but
> sometimes I am compelled to have a bite, to appease a particularly
> vicious birthday girl or boy. A sparkling Moscato d'Asti or even a
> good Asti Spumante would go very well with many kinds of cakes and
> other desserts.

I was going to post the same exact thing. If the cake has cream and/or
custard, then Asti is the perfect pairing.
And if the cake has good "deepness" of tastes, then even a raisin wine would
do well, I'm thinking of Moscato di Pantelleria, Passito di Pantelleria but
also raisin wines from the north, alas harder to find, as Loazzolo.
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[email protected] wrote:
>> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
>> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
>> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
>> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.
>>
>> Tom
>
>
For mature adults the most popular universally acceptible beverage to serve
and consume with a celebratory cake, and more so than all others combined,
is Champagne. The last time I was offered milk and/or a soft drink with
birthday cake the celebrant was like five years old. Coffee and tea would
typically be served after the cake ceremony. I've never seen where mature
adults were offered milk at a celebratory affair except in a psychiatric
institution. You are obviously infantile and/or not well.

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:38:38 -0700 (PDT), [email protected] wrote:

> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.
>
> Tom

that's an easy one. drink a beer and skip the cake.

your pal,
blake