My parents aren't from around here...but I still don't really know what armadillo cake is.
Groom's cake from what I've heard is the spice cake you mentioned. But I dunno if that's common!
I'm getting really excited about meeting up with you! It'll be like a little bit of Entmoot. And gosh knows I need some o' that!
It's a reference to the movie Steel Magnolias. The groom's aunt made a red velvet cake in the shape of an armadillo, and covered it in grey icing. When you cut into it, it looked like the insides of a creature. It was kinda gross looking.
When the father of the bride (who was annoying the aunt of the groom) asked for a piece of cake, she hacked off the tail of the armadillo and gave it to him. He just smiled and said "I always did like a nice piece of tail."
Steel Magnolias is a fun movie, but a real tear jerker. It stars Julia Roberts(the bride), Sally Fields (mother of the bride), Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, and Daryl Hannah. Tom Skerrit plays the father of the bride and Dylan McDermott is the groom.
Yeah, it's gonna be fun. So where do you want to meet up; Fairlee, so you don't have so far to drive home, or back at the Borders in Lebanon, NH? I can get some supper at either place, or we can go to that Applebees in Lebanon again.