{"id":21,"date":"2012-06-06T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2012-06-06T19:26:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T19:26:24","slug":"lemon-is-the-sneakiest-of-flavours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Lemon is the sneakiest of flavours"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lemon has no place in baked goods\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7080\/7160748503_c81e1e035f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"491\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a true story; this is my story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is an ancient tradition amongst bakers: if your pastry contains lemon, you should name it something like \u201cWalnut Awesomeness,\u201d \u201cPistachio Bliss,\u201d or \u201cContains Absolutely No Citrus,\u201d and find it unimportant to indicate the citrusey contamination anywhere in the name or description.\u00a0 In fact, do everything you can to avoid indicating lemon as an ingredient anywhere on the label or in the name.<\/p>\n<p>And lemon isn\u2019t something like chocolate or nuts or most other fruits, where you can visually identify its addition to pastries.\u00a0 Oh no, lemon is the same colour as neutral baked goods, and relatively texture-free.\u00a0 Thus it lies in the pastry dormant, hiding, dead-but-dreaming; waiting for some innocent victim to take a bite unawares, and be forced into tasting its vile tartness.<\/p>\n<p>A common encounter between myself and somebody sharing baked goods:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi Christine, want one of these blueberry cupcakes I made?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh wow awesome I love bluberrMMMMMMPHHHHHH!!! SONOFA-\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Lemon.<\/p>\n<p>This is why lemon is the sneakiest of flavours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an ancient tradition amongst bakers: if your pastry contains lemon, you should name it something like \u201cWalnut Awesomeness,\u201d \u201cPistachio Bliss,\u201d or \u201cContains Absolutely No Citrus,\u201d and find it unimportant to indicate the citrusey contamination anywhere in the name or description.\u00a0 In fact, do everything you can to avoid indicating lemon as an ingredient &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lemon is the sneakiest of flavours&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[14,15,18,16,12,13,17],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-doodles","tag-bakers","tag-conspiracy","tag-fool","tag-i-hate-lemon","tag-lemon","tag-pastry","tag-trick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}