my girlfriend at dinner was like “so i have some calendar opinions” and several hours of conversation later we have decided we need to make a kings cake TOMORROW
@Lady what is a kings cake
@wallhackio in the roman colonies they had this feast called saturnalia where on the last night they would bake a bean into a loaf of bread and whoever got it became the lord of misrule
after christianization this tradition was moved to the end of christmastide, i·e epiphany i·e the day celebrating when the three gentile kings bore witness to jesus
consequently the cake is now known as kings cake
@wallhackio see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake for more history and traditions
@Lady thank for history lesson
@wallhackio we don't care about saturn or jesus but we do care about the season of carnival, which runs from “kings day” until lent and consequently must be begun with a kings cake
@Lady mmmmmmmmmmmm cake
@wallhackio @Lady you can have a cake too if you want
@Lady @wallhackio nice!! ours came out a little bit ago and is cooling now
@Lady @wallhackio so how was the cake
@Satsuma @Lady what do you mean by that?