An analogy
Dec. 1st, 2007 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deelaundryI've decided: House and Wilson are like cake and frosting, respectively.
People don't say, "I want some frosting"; they say, "I want a piece of cake." And some people don't even like frosting on their cake -- they prefer their cake plain, or with a glaze, or a fruit topping.
Me, I follow the crowd and say, "I want cake," and when I get some, that first bite with both is always amazing. They're just so good together.
But really I'm in it for the frosting. Sometimes I don't eat all of the cake part, but I always eat the frosting and savor every bit. When no one's looking, I steal more frosting off the serving tray. There are even those secret evenings alone, when I give in to my heart's desire and have frosting straight from the can. It's a little shameful, because everyone knows you're only supposed to have frosting on cake (or the occasional cookie). I just can't resist, though -- it gives me too much bliss.
People don't say, "I want some frosting"; they say, "I want a piece of cake." And some people don't even like frosting on their cake -- they prefer their cake plain, or with a glaze, or a fruit topping.
Me, I follow the crowd and say, "I want cake," and when I get some, that first bite with both is always amazing. They're just so good together.
But really I'm in it for the frosting. Sometimes I don't eat all of the cake part, but I always eat the frosting and savor every bit. When no one's looking, I steal more frosting off the serving tray. There are even those secret evenings alone, when I give in to my heart's desire and have frosting straight from the can. It's a little shameful, because everyone knows you're only supposed to have frosting on cake (or the occasional cookie). I just can't resist, though -- it gives me too much bliss.
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Date: 2007-12-01 10:53 pm (UTC)I had a theory going for a while that House and Wilson were like a banana and an apple--but a lot of that was visual/art analogy stuff. I much prefer the cake and frosting. :D
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Date: 2007-12-01 10:55 pm (UTC)Very good, I like it, you've definitely got it right. :D
Court
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Date: 2007-12-01 11:12 pm (UTC): )
Dee
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Date: 2007-12-01 11:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-12-01 11:35 pm (UTC)Perfect analogy.
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Date: 2007-12-01 11:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-01 11:46 pm (UTC)And, thanks to you, I am now craving a really rich, complex golden cake with a few ingredients you can't quite figure out, smothered in a comforting and familiar, warm brown milk chocolate icing.
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Date: 2007-12-01 11:47 pm (UTC): )
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Date: 2007-12-01 11:50 pm (UTC)Moving away from analogy, what's your favorite pie?
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Date: 2007-12-01 11:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-01 11:57 pm (UTC)As for pie, saskatoon's my favourite.
I am sad, for the purposes of this discussion, that I deleted my pie icon yesterday.
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Date: 2007-12-02 12:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-02 01:14 am (UTC)Mmm.
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Date: 2007-12-02 01:15 am (UTC)I eat frosting straight from the can as well. Mmmm ...
ydiw,
~Djinn
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Date: 2007-12-02 01:24 am (UTC)Maybe.
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Date: 2007-12-02 01:27 am (UTC)And, then I'll long for a grapefruit, :D
Court
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Date: 2007-12-02 01:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-02 02:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-02 05:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-02 09:28 am (UTC)If I make a cake, I will often pull the icing off and eat it after I've eaten the cake (I have a really yummy icing recipe). And I loathe fruit cake, so every year at Christmas I eat lots of icing (my mother always used to put lots and lots of decorative swirls of icing on our Christmas cake so I could pick it off :D )
I've never thought of making icing on its own just to eat it, but now you've put the idea in my head...
YUMMY!
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Date: 2007-12-02 02:03 pm (UTC)Hee.
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Date: 2007-12-02 02:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-02 02:06 pm (UTC)YDIW,
Dee
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Date: 2007-12-02 02:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-02 02:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-02 02:18 pm (UTC)MAYBE A NICE CRUMBLE CAKE OR CHOC-CHIP POUND CAKE OR PINEAPPLE-UPSIDE DOWN FOR YOU
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Date: 2007-12-02 02:21 pm (UTC)You make your own icing? Very cool. I've done it a few times, and it tastes so much better than canned. (Canned is very convenient, though.)
YUM!
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Date: 2007-12-02 04:16 pm (UTC)I've never tried canned icing (unless it's been on someone else's cake) since when I was teeny and learnt to make cakes, there was only one way to get icing and that was to make it yourself.
I like marble cake - chocolate and vanilla swirled together, with chocolate butter cream on top. It's very good for you because it has no additives/artificial colours/artificial flavours. It probably has several million calories, but hey, it's cake, so who's counting? XD
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Date: 2007-12-02 06:19 pm (UTC)