Mix
the Cake with Whoops of Jolly!
Fa La La La La and more La La La La La’s!
By
Gyan
C. A. Fernando
With
illustrations by N Senthilkumaran
Sri
Lankans are well known to have a sweet tooth, or rather whole sets of sweet
teeth, and so it didn’t come as too much of a surprise to me to be offered all
sorts of sweets on my return to the Old Republic.
Having
lived too long elsewhere in the world I had lost my sweet tooth. The array of
biscuits, puddings and cakes that confronted me, followed by the cups of tea
with three sugars in them, set my teeth on edge!
What
really intrigued me was that, although we were nowhere near Christmas, it was
still May; there was plenty of Marzipan cemented Christmas cake floating about.
My three
sisters are well-known experts on the subject of Xmas cake and even my loud-mouthed
but lovely niece Samanmalee (“Sam”, 30+), whose culinary skills in the Rice ‘n’
Curry department are below par, can beat up some awfully sickly sweet Christmas
cakes, the sort that gives you tooth decay at a range of fifty metres!
What
chuffs me is that the majority of Sri Lankans are not Christians but Christmas
cake does bring us all together. Isn’t that heart-warming? What harmony!
Everybody gets together for the sake of Christmas! For the sake of Christmas
cake!
No
doubt Dentists love this state of affairs.
