Happy Canada Day!

Let's here it for the old red, white and...oh um...just the old red and white! Two years ago on this very day I was driving from Nova Scotia to P.E.I. listening to the CBC as the various hosts and guests waxed poetic about their national holiday. I love the CBC, it actually sounds like real normal people talking rather than the slickly defined persona's one has become used to here. Anyway, people kept mentioning Canada Day Cake. As best as I could determine this was a cake with red and white frosting. Driving along on my solitary jaunt it sure sounded good, in fact it sounded like the best thing ever. I began to formulate strategies and fantasies of how I could acquire a slice of this exotically patriotic pastiche. Alas, I never did. Just another one of those pleasures denied that remain an ever fresh temptation. This year I did buy some cupcakes with red, white, and blue sprinkles. A worthy compensation, but no match I am sure...for Canada Day Cake on July 3rd on a quiet sunny day half way between here and there.