Posted by Owen Roberts on July 24, 2006 at 15:25:13 from 194.201.78.141 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: "grabbed a cake" posted by Ed Kiser on July 24, 2006 at 14:49:50:
I hope it was a thick rich fruitcake of the type the cook made for the Kanchenjunga trip in Swallowdale.
This type of cake does not crumble easily. Nancy may have even grabbed it from a cake-cooling tray in the larder, in which case it could well have still retained it's greaseproof paper.
However I remember when I was small and keen to go out, I did not wait for my mother to wrap sandwiches- which were stuffed into a pocket in my shorts. Cake, if provided, went into the breast pocket of my shirt again unwrapped. The universal apple again went into a shorts pocket.
There were problems if sandwiches contained tomato or pickle, as this tended to leak and stain clothing. I think my mother learned and most sandwiches were either cheese and onion or cheese and lettuce.