Members of the BFD Sumps around the country have figured out how to keep Jacinda Ardern’s socialist friends from infiltrating their gatherings. It’s simple.
Grant Robertson recently spied a strawberry jelly lamington log being held by a protestor. You can see the lady ‘armed’ with the pink lamington log from 51 seconds to 1.14 in the below video.
This woman was ready to hurl it at Robertson when he stepped out of a building up North. Robertson knows he has ruined New Zealand with his out-of-control debt levels, he knows he is hated for supporting vaccine mandates that saw many Kiwis go broke and, worse, he nods in agreement with everything his boss says even when he knows it will not be good for the country.
Ardern is no longer popular in New Zealand, nor is Deputy Prime Minister Robertson. People do not like him, they do not like his politics and are ready to let him know that fact.
While the writer of this article does not condone anyone throwing anything at another except perhaps a fun snowball before climate change eliminates that possibility, there are lessons for us to learn. Whether the protestor was a fast bowler in a cricket 11 in her day, we may never know, but it’s advisable for all Sumps to have some lamingtons on hand when they next meet. Just spying them in the distance will be enough to keep lurking socialists from walking in. They will see the lamingtons and, like Robertson, take fright and run away.
The UK does not have lamingtons, so to enlighten other BFD readers, the origin of the lamington is another debate that goes on and on as does the one about pavlova. New Zealand or Australia? We eat a lot of them in New Zealand. They are made with light sponge (like the famous UK Victoria Sponge Cake) cut into squares, carefully dipped and covered with chocolate icing or strawberry jelly, then rolled with coconut.
Lamingtons now come in many colours and flavours, and a tropical mango flavour goes well with the coconut. The most popular by far is chocolate or strawberry. They can be eaten just like that, but you cannot beat them filled with fresh whipped cream, strawberry jelly and a slice of fresh strawberry on the pink ones.
Which country came up with the lamington first? They are from the South Pacific colonies for sure. But did New Zealand or Australia create them first?
It’s long been thought that the lamington was named after Lord Lamington, who served as the governor of Queensland between 1896 and 1902, and that the first known reference to a lamington was made in 1900, when a recipe for the chocolate and coconut cake was published in Queensland’s Country Life.
The treat quickly became a national favourite for Australians and was decreed a national cake, published in many more recipe books and magazines since.
But… surely the lamington is originally Kiwi?
Research completed by the University of Auckland in 2014 suggests that the famous lamington might be from New Zealand after all… and called a “wellington”.
An analysis of a collection of watercolours by New Zealand artist JR Smythe and found that a “lamington cake” is pictured in one portrait from 1888 called “Summer Pantry”.
Further to that, apparently our Lord Lamington visited Wellington in 1895 – and researchers uncovered a newspaper article from the year, stating that he was very taken “with the local sweets provided to him by local bakers A.R. Levin.” Among those desserts? A wellington: a double-sponge dessert dressed in coconut “to imitate the snow-capped mountains of New Zealand.”
It’s a contentious issue. But Aussie or not, we love the lamington, apart from Grant Robertson, that is. I doubt he will ever want to see one again.
