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How’d you like that experiment last week? Photos! They’re fun for everyone. If you’re still feeling a bit nauseous from the experiment, you should drink some ginger ale and count to 10 in French. Speaking of counting in French, il y a sept jours\there are seven days left for you to eat king cake! (Apologies to my teachers if I bastardized that minimal French.) Before you run out to get all doped up on sugar, let’s have a chat about king cakes. Just a quick one. They’re cakes. Not hula hoops. Not necklaces. Not tires. Cakes. Got that? Okay, good. Now we can get started. Should you have a question about some other random Baton Rouge thing, shoot it here. If you lurking readers don’t start sending me some questions, I’m going to sign you all up for porn. April Fool’s! Oh wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. Forget I said that.

Question: Who holds the world record for the largest king cake?

Answer: Ellllleeeessssseeeeuuuuu.

Well, at least that’s what they think. For all we know there could be a chef-hat wearing mongoose in Africa whipping up a king cake to trump all king cakes. There’s no Guinness Book of World Records category for this type of thing, so we’ll just have to trust LSU on this. I trusted them with three years of education and that’s proved adequate thus far. I guess we’ll be okay. Anyway, in February 1998, Chartwells, the contracted company who runs LSU Dining, made a king cake roughly 168 feet long and about six inches wide. Baked in sections at the Pentagon Dining Unit, the cake was brought to the Union for icing and decorating. The confectionary feat used about 240 pounds of dough, 75 pounds of sugar and five pounds of cinnamon. If you’re keeping track, that’s 150 cups of sugar (i.e. a lot of KOOL-AID). How many plastic babies were in this sucker, I have no idea. Weighing in at 300 pounds, the cake took four days to bake and could serve up to 4,000 people or one hungry, hungry hippo. And because I know you’re wondering, the world’s largest tiramisu weighed 476.1 lbs (German-engineered in 2003). There is a record for that. Thanks to Kristine Calongne, director of public affairs at LSU for her sweet, sweet knowledge.

And P.S. folks, a quick plug. Just want to make sure you’re all aware that this lovely blog does find its way into 225’s print version on a monthly basis. And it’s all fresh material. Nothing stinky like this poorly executed plug. So while you’re out buying a king cake, pick up a copy of 225 as well. If you start getting sick from too much sweet content, you can throw up on my photo. I won’t tell. BARF.