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"Victor Sack" > wrote in message
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> > wrote:
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>> I am wondering what people have to drink when they eat birthday cake
>> with icing. The only things I can tolerate is milk, coffee or water.
>> Soft drinks do not taste good, nor does iced tea or hot chocolate.
>> Mixed drinks, beer and wine also seem like a poor choice.
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> I do not normally eat any kind of sweet cake if I can help it, but
> sometimes I am compelled to have a bite, to appease a particularly
> vicious birthday girl or boy. A sparkling Moscato d'Asti or even a good
> Asti Spumante would go very well with many kinds of cakes and other
> desserts. Depending on the cake, the right kind of beer can be the best
> thing to accompany it. An Imperial stout (especially with chocolate- or
> coffee-based cakes or desserts) or a fruit-based beer, such as a Belgian
> framboise or kriek are definitely to be considered. In both cases, wine
> and beer, it is not just their particular flavours that make them work -
> it is also their palate-cleansing carbonation.
>

Nah, milk or coffee or tea.