Almost there

[shewhomust]

Today is the big day, and the party met for breakfast at Hobee's. There was the famous coffee cake (warning: may not contain coffee), and there was coffee and fizz and many people including the happy couple:

And now klwilliams has been taken by her handmaidens to be garbed in her wedding finery, and desperance has been escorted by his Best Women to a place of safety, and we have a couple of hours to wash our faces and put on our party frocks. Only naturally we are spending them talking to the internets.

Linguistic difference of the day: the mother of the bride decided not to come out to breakfast, but asked for a side of bacon to be brought back to her. This turns out not to be an entire flitch, but a few crispy rashers in a neat plastic tub.

Comments

[sovay]

Mazel tov to everyone it applies to!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I passed on this message this evening.

[cellio]

There was the famous coffee cake (warning: may not contain coffee)

It's like Girl Scout cookies -- they may not contain... :-)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Good point.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

I hope it was as lovely a wedding as the both of them deserve and that you all had a wonderful time.

'Side' in this instance is short for 'side dish'. I only know another meaning because I read cookbooks by British people, since in the U.S. bacon is basically sold pre-sliced. As in, I am a meat aficionado and a person who cooks, and I think I know where I could get unsliced bacon, although probably not by the entire side, but I might be wrong and there are really only two or three places in the city I'd consider looking. The gourmet store down the block sells duck bacon-- pre-sliced. If that tells you. Pretty sure the largest piece of bacon I've ever seen in person is what you'd call a rasher. Also there are all these British cookbooks that mention bacon rind, and that's just nonexistent here. I've never met one.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oy. No bacon rinds? But, but, but - what do you put in a dish in the bottom of the oven to curl up and crisp and be crunchy?

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

There are so many answers to this question, and I don't want to think about any of them.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

It was a very splendid wedding.

And sides being side dishes is something I sort of know - if I see it on a menu, I understand it. But it took me by surprise at breakfast.

Duck bacon?