Sunday, June 07, 2009
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You know you must be A Highly Civilized Person when you can eat your various and sundry pastries off of a koi-themed plate. Better yet, just imagine the thrill you'll receive when you dig into a very large slice of cake, one that entirely covers the design underneath -- bite by bite, piece by piece, despairing calorie by despairing calorie -- only to discover, when your belly is slovenly-full and your plate is fully-revealed, that there is a koi fish lingering underneath it. "Congratulations," you will say to yourself! "It is like I have been eating off the surface of a fine porcelain pond, and now, this koi fish will surely devour my leftover crumbs! How handy, and how lily-pond chic!"

In all dreadful seriousness, though, I do like the plate, and I do like its relatively reasonable $12.00 price-tag. What I like most of all, however, is the title of said plate -- if only there were three koi on each plate, it could be called "Three Koi in the Fountain," à la Three Coins in the Fountain, of course -- and let's face it, ardent tableware fans: there's simply no better kind of smug than the smug one feels when bearing a dessert plate that seeks to reference classic cinema.