"Mr. Bill" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:46:18 -0400, Kate Connally
> > wrote:
>
> >except the Crisco salad. That's got to be about the grossest thing
> >I've ever heard
>
> What makes it gross....the crisco/sugar mixture is nothing more than
> Kroger Deli cake frosting that is tinted into colors not found on
> earth...and they sell tens of thousands of the frosted lovelies every
> week.

That's basically what I said above, except in the guise of Oreo filling.

>Bet you bought three dozen cupcakes to take to your kids
> third grade birthday party in elementary school.

Have *never* inflicted anything like that on anyone LOL.


>That is the frosting
> that comes in five gallon buckets they buy fifty at a time. Didn't
> it strike you odd how greasy your teeth felt after eating a piece of
> that cake?
>
> This concoction is just made at home....not in behind the cake
> decorating case in the market.

We had a birthday cake at TMU's craft group this morning. As per my
usual practice, the lurid fluorescent pink 'icing' or 'frosting' got
scraped off the top and layers before being eaten. The colour was enough
to put me off anyway