When there's war, poverty and so much doom and gloom in the world, sometimes you yearn for a light-hearted distraction... so here we go. We're big fans of Birds Bakery's cakes in our house, especially a big choux bun filled with cream and topped with chocolate.
Last time we went into the shop in Beeston and requested one by the name we've always known it by, an elephant's foot for obvious reasons, the assistant corrected us, calling it a cream puff. Well, the outrage. What's going on? Has Birds changed the name? It warranted a tongue-in-cheek post on social media asking what you called them and quite frankly the response was astounding.
Paul Robey, of Boom Radio, said: "Being brought up in Clifton, it was always a special treat for birthdays and other big occasions. My mum’s favourite cake and her mum’s too - going back to when they lived in the old Meadows. Even working at the Pru on Maid Marian Way, in the 80s, they were 'the' cake for birthdays and no one ever called them anything but an elephant’s foot.
