I don't have kids, so I'm totally out of touch with what's hip and trendy and phat and sick and yo and dope and whatever is the kids are saying these days. Turns out not much has changed since I was a youngin' in the 1980s. What a relief we felt when we discovered at a recent suburban teenage birthday party that kids are still observing at the Altar of Ms. Pac-Man even though we're living in a brand new decade, century, and millenium:
A birthday cake
Is the theme music ringing in your head? The one that sounds like: "wokka wokka wokka wokka".
And then there is Red Velvet Cake. Oh. My. God. I don't know if you remember the menstrual-fest that was Steel Magnolias in the late 80s where an Armadillo red velvet cake was featured, but you MUST have some red velvet cake before you die. I don't even have to tell you this if you're from "The South" (in the U.S.), as you were probably spoon fed the Red as a baby.
And if you really want to get ridiculous about it, try the Red Velvet Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. You can share this with your friends, but you need to act fast if you want to get a picture of it. The photo below was taken 2.4 nanoseconds after the plate was placed in front of us where I began fork-stabbing the hands of my tablemates.
Red Velvet Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory
So my question to you is, what do you miss from the 1980s? Because...yeah, there's a cake for that.
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