Texas A&M Men’s Basketball hosts LSU tonight, and some PR gurus decided to make this a MARDI GRAS-THEMED EVENT even though it’s not quite February 28th yet. Because LSU is from Louisiana, you see.
Anyway, some poor social media intern made the crucial error of misidentifying a food item on line, one of the gravest sins imaginable in this modern age.
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The diligent citizens of Twitter were quick to point out that this is not actually a King Cake. A quick Google search confirms that yep, this doesn’t look anything like one:
The king cake of the Louisiana tradition comes in a number of styles.