Caluda's Ill-Fated Joe Burrow King Cake

It's Carnival Season in New Orleans which could mean many things to many people. Parades, drinking, eating, parades, drinking, beads, drinking, parades and so forth. It also means it's legal to have King Cake for breakfast! Snacktion News is here to King Cake walk you through some of our favorites. 

A few days after the conclusion to the Super Bowl, I'm finally ready to kick off our King Cake celebration week despite shame eating several feet of Cincinnati Bengal orange and black icing. Sacrilege, you yell! They chant "Who Dey!" you, um, chant. Yes, viewer, shut up. I'm still nursing a hangover. Joe Burrow will never buy a cigar in Louisiana again after dominating college football en route to the LSU National Championship in 2019. 

So, when the 2020 first overall pick by the Cincinnati Bengals led them to the Super Bowl with 2021 Offensive Rookie of the Year and fellow 2019 National Champion Ja'Marr Chase in tow, New Orleans was bound to celebrate local football heroes. That was a two page teleprompter disaster of a sentence. Run the footage of what King Cake is... 

It comes in a number of styles. The most simple, said to be the most traditional, is a ring of twisted cinnamon roll-style dough. It may be topped with icing or sugar, which may be colored to show the traditional Mardi Gras colors of purple for justice, green for faith, and gold for power.

There's more history to it that you can google on your own or ask the pretentious guy at the party who went to Tulane. His name is Brad. Back to Joe Burrow. All of New Orleans rallied around Burrow and the Bengals after the Saints missed the playoffs. 

And Caluda's Bakery was able to rise to the occasion. *pause for yeast joke applause*

Caluda's created an orange and striped black icing to go with the purple and yellow sprinkles over traditional white icing, To celebrate bengals both from Cincinnati and the Bayou, respectfully, while making hand over fist dough. I'm going to win so many Emmys.

THE SCORE: Rams 23 - Bengals 20

THE REVIEW: While Burrow fell short of winning the Super Bowl to go along with his Heisman Trophy, National Championship, Comeback Player of the Year after tearing his ACL at the end of his rookie season and becoming Joe Cool III after Namath and the cigarette donkey. I'm being told Joe Cool II was Joe Montana and not a chain smoking camel in a leather jacket. Did Montana come in menthol, though?

Right, so Caluda did a fantastic job with the Burreaux King Cake. Visually stunning. Timely. Jinx-y, perhaps. The cake itself is nice and well cinnamon'd even though it was gigantic. The orange and black icing was surprisingly good despite not containing any hint of that famous Cinci chili flavor only Kat Terrell claims to enjoy. They didn't offer fillings for it but they have tons of options if you aren't going there for a specific news article that is well over a week late of being news worthy. 

I'm still getting reimbursed though? Right? Right?

All right, viewer, yes, you can order from Caluda year round in case you want to throw your drunk aunt in Denton, Texas a Mardi Gras themed birthday party in June. I'm going to get back to shame eating my final elbow of Burrow Cake.