Cake

 

 

I'm pretty jaded when it comes to high food prices, especially at Metropolitan Market, but this one caught my eye yesterday: $100 for a 10 inch cake. Not a typo.

Hummingbird cake isn't made from the gilded tongues of birds, it's actually a pretty simple old recipe with mashed bananas, crushed pineapple and nuts. Sort of like a fancy banana bread. 

 

The Metropolitan Market cakes are good, in fact we buy the small ones sometimes for special occasions, like this Mother's Day special. Those are about $30, so guess it makes sense that a cake 3 times as big would cost 3 times more. Still, our mothers would have been shocked to death at the sight! There was a time when they fed the family for $100 a month.

Other than the price of cake, not much to talk about here. The Seattle weather has been a real damper on spirits, continuing unseasonably wet and cool.