Things That Look Like Other Things

This blogpost is dedicated to The Cake Girl, just because.

The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival falls on 30th September this year: Pat’s Chung Ying on Leith Walk is selling gorgeous boxes of mooncakes. (I didn’t check to see if they also sell the ingredients, but if they do, here’s how to make your own.) There are multiple variations on the basic mooncake, the general theme being a cake to be divided and shared among family while viewing the full moon of autumn. But look: this is an actual thing. Mooncakes that look like mobile phones (via):

Atheist Easter Links

As an atheist, I shall not be eating a chocolate egg today.

— EdinburghEye (@EyeEdinburgh) April 6, 2012

And two hours later, after I had bought a latte and a croissant at Relish:

As an atheist, I shall not be eating a chocolate egg today EVEN THOUGH the coffee shop was selling Divine dark chocolate Fair Trade eggs.

— EdinburghEye (@EyeEdinburgh) April 6, 2012

As an atheist, I suppose I ought to have made this post on the vernal equinox. But who’s thinking about chocolate eggs then?