RayBonga |
05-20-2006 02:21 PM |
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Originally Posted by Screaming
whats a space cake?
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Alice B. Toklas brownie
A sweet cake or cookie containing cannabis, like a hash cookie, is variously known as an Alice B. Toklas brownie, bud brownie, magic brownie, hash brownie, or special brownie. Eating such a brownie can result in a similar psychoactive effect or "high" as smoking marijuana, although it may be delayed or mitigated due to slower absorption of the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) through the digestive tract. It is also seen as a smoother "high". Products containing cannabis are widely available in cannabis coffee shops in the Netherlands (and various European cities), where consumption use of marijuana is effectively legal.
Other terms for an Alice B. Toklas brownie include "bud brownie", "space cake", "pot pie", "Scooby Snack", "hash brownie", "special brownie", or "magic brownie". The latter term has been used as a source for just about any other food item that contains marijuana or "magic" mushrooms: "magic tea", "magic cake", etc.
The term Alice B. Tokin' brownie may have started as a pun on the word Alice B. Toklas brownie; combining imagery from the stoner-classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in which the eponymous heroine eats different foods to strange effect, with the concept of to be tokin'/toking from the stoner vernacular to toke, or to smoke cannabis. Hence, an "Alice is getting high (Alice be tokin' ) brownie". However, it is equally likely that the Alice be tokin' explanation is a folk etymology created by people who mis-heard Alice B. Toklas as Alice B. Tokin' , without any doubt due to the ubiquitous association of the works of Lewis Caroll with all things psychedelic.
"Toklas" may also be read as "Toke-less," as the brownies are smokeless.
The brownie, rather than the writer, lent its name to the 1968 film I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, in which a character portrayed by Peter Sellers becomes disillusioned with his mainstream life after falling in love with a free spirit, only to become just as disillusioned with the hippie subculture. Marijuana-spiked brownies are a key plot element.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_cake
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