Hello Travelers!

iKangaroo wanted to take this opportunity to wish all of New Orleans, and the Gulf Coast for that matter, a fantastic and safe Mardi Gras. Also, we would like to thank our friend for sending the King Cake, it is delicious. A King Cake, for those who don’t know, is another spill over from the ancient Roman traditions that inspired Mardi Gras. It’s an oval-shaped cake made from gourmet cinnamon dough and iced with sugars in the Carnival colors of purple (for justice), green (for faith) and gold (for power). In ancient Rome, during the festival of Saturnalia, the Romans used to bury a bean in a pastry which insured fertility to the person who got the bean in their piece of pastry. Today the King Cake comes with a plastic infant, representing the baby Jesus, which is no longer buried in the cake but is placed on top to avoid chocking issues; the person who gets the baby is then obliged to bring next year’s cake. As of yet, we still don’t have a winner.

Happy Mardi Gras!

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