"Don't drop that s__t!"
Posted on 10/26/2024 9:30:25 AM PDT by thecodont
Thanksgiving means turkey, the Fourth of July equals hot dogs and burgers, and Christmas brings ham, so why doesn’t America have a specific food to eat on Election Day? Perhaps because we’re now too mired in disgust and/or despair by the time a presidential election rolls around every four years to be concerned with preparing a special dish. But at one point in time, at least in a certain region of the country, there was something called Election Cake.
It is often connected with Hartford, Connecticut and called Hartford Election Cake, but historians point out that the cake was baked throughout New England and generally referred to as Election Cake in cookbooks.
While the tradition of baking a cake for Election Day has largely fallen by the wayside, the practice goes back hundreds of years. Though historians disagree on the origins of Election Cake — some say it can be traced to England, some say it was an American invention entirely — they seem to agree that it was originally known as “muster cake.” That name could refer to the fact that these cakes were made to feed visitors who were called to militia training days, or to the idea of the cake helping to “muster” votes.
In the cookbook, American Cake, author Anne Byrn writes that Election Cake was often baked by candy makers or bakers and sold on Election Day as a way to draw out voters: “Often confectioners sold tickets to the event. On one such Election Day in 1841 in Montpelier, Vermont, the bakery advertised that with a 50-cent ticket you would receive a pound-size serving of cake and the chance of a ring inside.”
By other accounts, these cakes were also served and sold at town meetings.
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If Kamala wins, no one wants to eat what she is offering...Urinal Cake.
It’s Election Coke now, more commonly referred to as Kamala’s Empty Baggie Day or Eight Ball Time.
Someone left the cake out in the rain.........
I will go for election day Trump wine.
As in; “Let them eat cake”?
Crow?
Nice! Urinal cake! “Let them eat cake!”
Fixed it for you! ;-)
Most election years serves cold gruel.
Saw what you did there. Worst song ever written.
I have a $300 bottle of whiskey I have been saving for years. If Trump wins, it will be the last I drink. If Kamala wins, god help us
Because nearly all of the people who have off that day are government workers and teachers.
Some things are just so bad, they're hilarious --- which makes this song one of my favorites.
I was talking to a much younger coworker who had never heard this song, he couldn't believe someone would write these lyrics! He searched it up, listened to it and broke up.
Voters had to ride by horse or walk to the county seat. The round trip took several hours. Their wives, etc. would bake a bread or cake for them to eat along the way. There were also usually food vendors near the polling place. Since polling places are nearer and transportation is faster, election cakes aren’t needed.
What happened to the 7-11 election Big Gulp cups?
MacArthur Park itself ain’t so great either!
MacArthur Park is now a fentanyl-infused homeless haven.
“presidential election rolls”
Mmm, presidential election rolls. With butter and honey.
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