I have a Hotmail account, and as such, whenever I check my e-mail, I get links to what are usually fluff news stories. Today, I saw one that read “What is yellowcake?”
“Yellow cake with pink frosting!” I thought, harking back to the old AOL board. “Maybe they’ll have a recipe I can use!” Click. "Oh. :smack: Oh. Me = :wally "
My old girlfriend used to bake me marble cakes, but I always took them for granite.
OK. I’ll admit it. I have taken up permanent residence under a rock and have absolutely no clue what “yellow cake with pink frosting” is other than yellow cake…with pink frosting… Care to enlighten me?
Yeah, I’m w/Ruby…what’s the gig?
Me three.
Didja click? Was it gross? Where’s the link, you can’t just leave the rest of us hanging like this!
It’s Ranger Jeff’s favorite desert.
omg, now I don’t know if I wanna know…ew
Oh, poop on you, peri! My computer froze, and you posted while I was getting back to this thread!
Yes, RangerJeff was a poster on the old AOL board. When asked what he wanted for his birthday, he was adamant in his request for yellow cake with pink frosting. (Much more tasteful than HpstrDufuz’s plea for “a car full of hookers and a big pile of blow.) Both of these became board catchphrases, even, IIRC, predating “Hi Opal!”
Meanwhile, “yellowcake” (one word), is milled uranium oxide, known to chemists as U3O8. Also, check out the cartoon at the top of this page.
slowwwwwly backing up
Okay, Rilch…okaaaay.
Yellowcake refers to milled uranium oxide, a principal form of uranium ore in its semi-refined state.
Which we heard about recently with regard to Iraq, actually. Even with pink frosting, I wouldn’t eat that.