October 11, 2009

Krispy Is Thirty

Saturday evening, I went to my old college buddy Krispy's birthday party. He's hitting the big three-oh. Krispy possesses a happy-go-lucky nature, so it didn't seem to bother him.

He's got a nice house in a not-nice part of town, of which Buffalo has many. (With the city's decline in population, housing is crazy cheap.) I am still wondering how old the building was; it had some stained-glass windows, but the kitchen had a chimney with the circular hole indicating it once had a freestanding stove with a stovepipe.

At any rate, there was a big crowd, as Krispy is good at making friends. "Genial" is a good word for him. I brought along the first angel-food cake I've even made, which came out quite well. A cake needs topping, but I figured icing would be too sweet; instead I took a cup of cream, added a teaspoon of sugar and half a teaspoon of lemon juice, and whipped it until it was just about to become overwhipped. I then folded in a cup of blueberries and called it done.

It was a big hit, far more popular than the conventional commercial cake someone had bought. The regular cake was really really sweet, and I think our crowd has aged enough that pure sugar is not the rush it used to be.

Another guest brought something I'd never seen before: "Birthday Cake Milk." It's a plastic pint bottle of milk, colored blue, flavored with the artifical cake flavoring used for birthday cake-flavored ice cream, then with 60 grams of sugar added. Yes, sixty grams sugar. I did the math: 60 grams is slightly more than two ounces. A fluid ounce of water weighs one ounce. A pint is sixteen fluid ounces. This beverage was 1/8 sugar. That's about as sweet as Mountain Dew.

I suspect the "milk" got opened eventually, but I didn't stay. As it was nearing midnight, I was getting more and more tired. I left at 12:15 AM, and was tired enough perhaps I shouldn't have been driving.

Last time I was in college, I could pull all-nighters with much greater ease.

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