Dateline: Somewhere in the 1960’s
My Aunt Shirley makes a few dozen of her legendary Cream Puffs for a holiday dinner she is hosting.
She tents the several dozen puffs with aluminum foil and sets them on her kitchen counter to rest until dessert.
My Uncle Bill arrives and surreptitiously reaches under the aluminum foil and pops a cream puff in his mouth. Just like with chips, no one could eat just one.
Fast forward post meal and Aunt Shirley enters the dinning room, holds up the tray and ceremoniously removes the foil to reveal……….an empty plate……
