In noticing that my previous post is loaded with food metaphors, I started looking beyond my own obvious food orientation for assurance that readers would themselves follow the implications of oatmeal and cheeseballs, for example.
Without digging into it too deeply, I come up with this justification that is probably fairly universal, and perhaps as well, a slight stretch in the use of personification: How long do we avoid slicing into the celebrant’s name on a birthday cake?
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