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On 12/5/2013 4:29 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 12/5/2013 9:47 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
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>> I don't know, it's been my experience that older people start
>> going for the sweet stuff. Even my mother, she never got the
>> point of frosting, saying Wouldn't that make it sweet? has
>> developed a liking for cakes and pies in the past few years.


> We had the hardest time getting my mother-in-law to eat and keep from
> wasting away. She did like sweet stuff but we never tried cake and
> frosting. That would have been great if she ate that. I would have
> bought her all the cake she could handle.


It was the same with my inlaws, it got to where I'd always bring
a decorated bakery cake or those tins of butter cookies. I don't
know if it's just a taste bud thing or what. Maybe more to it than
that.

Really, if cake is what made them eat, here you go.

nancy