Corporate Heresies, Technology Rants, Personal Observations
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 Eat a cake, go to prison Eccles is a Lancashire town and originally its name meant 'Church.' Eccles is also the name of type of cake with a somewhat unusual story. Truth is, Eccles cakes are a fairly simple roll of a thing, usually filled will currants, and as the record tells us, made in the town of Eccles on religious holidays. American Puritans were a pretty sensual averse bunch of people. It seems that this country's early settlers decided that Eccles cakes were so rich and delicious that they were probably a tool of Satan. So. In 1650 the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law in 1650: you could be sent to prison for eating an Eccles cake. The record isn't clear as to whether Eccles cakes could be consumed by consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes. -- I ran into a bake shop t'other day in Providence Rhode Island. A woman who's voice suggested origins on the other side of the Atlantic laughed when she saw the Eccles sign -- so - I had to know The Story. On principal, (and 'cause I was a bit hungry) I ate one in the full daylight in the great Out of Doors. ------------- - a bit more on these cakes: http://www.visitsalford.co.uk/html/intro/ecclescakes.html posted by Tom | 2:50 PM |
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