I awoke in my bed and
suddenly remembered
I had left a pie
cooling on the windowsill!
***
I jumped up, hustled
into the kitchen,
opened the light, and gasped!
***
My pie was covered in ants!
***
I admit this surprised me.
For though I was aware
I had an ant problem,
I didn’t think they kept
such late hours.
***
Then I remembered
what a friend told me:
“Ants hate cinnamon.”
***
And while that is quite shocking,
I wasn’t looking for another reason
to hate ants.
***
It was time to take action.
But what to do? I once read
that if ants could record
their history, they could take
over the world in three days.
But who has time to teach
ants to read? Not I.
***
Help!
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Gracious!
Oh, chuckle chuckle! When we came back from a vacation there were ants in our trash and even in our freezer. That last one was truly bizarre. I made a blog post about it. They froze to death. I called them brave but stupid.
Sometimes you just have to know when to come out of the cold.
Snort!
Ha ha! True about the cinnamon though!
Cheers, Silent Hour. But you know what? Ants or no ants, some cinnamon toast is sounding pretty good right now.
It does, and how do you make one? Never had it.
Actually, I just added the directions into the piece. I think you might have just missed it (though I left out that you are supposed to mix the sugar with the cinnamon before adding it to the buttered bread, so that it is evenly distributed)
*** Since I have omitted the directions from the piece I will post it here. Mix the sugar with cinnamon. Spread evenly on buttered bread (one side only). Toast on top rack in the oven set to broil (so only top is being toasted). Eat. Enjoy. Or, feed to ants. Thank you.
Thank you, I’d like to try. Sounds great for breakfast.
This is so good! Now I also have another reason to dislike ants. 😄
Haha! Thanks so much, Craig
Haha! This is so good! 😂😂😂
Thank you, Sadje!
Always a pleasure
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Hilarious! Don’t be surprised if the ants put in an order for Cinnabons so they don’t have to travel to the airport.
I may have to join them. Sounds good!
Ant Jemima has an excellent recipe for pseudo-cinnamon toast.
Au contraire, in our world as in the ant world there are some pseudo and some pseudon’t
Can’t have it both ways, I suppose.
I’ve had a Dave Matthews tune on a loop in my head since I read this. You are the Devil.
Haha! I had to wiredoo * it to find the reference and my sincere apologies.
(* actually I googled it but I thought I’d give mc hammer a shout out)
Great. Now it’s “U Can’t Touch This.” I’m breaking out the Hammer pants.
Awww I use vinegar to deter them
It’s definitely safer than pesticides and fairly effective, too … for a day or two.
I pour some every so often or soak paper towels to keep the smell going
Or, you can try bathing in vinegar. Nothing more hardcore than that. The ants will stay far, far, away, as will virtually everybody else.
Lol that’s the ultimate social distancing!!
Haha!
Too funny that, and the accompanying pic :) :) :) Tref at its best.
I’m anti-ant and anti-vax, so unfortunately the latest ant bite vaccine is no use to me.
I have never been anti-ant, i mean, they did bring the grasshopper in from the cold and feed him and all for the price of some fiddle playing. Assuming that story is not apocryphal, anyway
There’s always exceptions to what ants like and what they don’t like. There’s one ant in every crowd.
I suppose that is true. If I have learned anything from all this it’s that cinnamon toast is the salve that may finally unite the insect world with the human world. And isn’t that what trefology is about anyway?
It certainly is.
FLY ADVICE TO ANTS / CATCH MORE HUMANS WITH HONEY / THAN WITH CINNAMON
I agree with this. I don’t really hate the ants. They are only doing as they were instructed to do. And while I will not bend a knee to their queen, I don’t mind them scavenging for the occasional crumb or whatnot, just DO NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE of my good-will, what.
There seems to be a plethora of life hacks regarding cinnamon. It really does seem like it is capable of so many things. I’m glad you tried this before I did. I would have been heartbroken to have lost the pie and the toast.
The cinnamon thing is an urban myth? I could have sworn I sprinkled some in the way of an ant marching area and they didn’t cross it….
but maybe I only convinced myself that happened!! :)
Haha. No it is totally valid, seliza, but not cinnamon toast which is mostly sugar & butter.
Ants probably aren’t epicures – I tried the cinnamon ant repellant and it failed miserably.
I don’t know about that, as an experiment, I left out two different types of cheese for the ants, and they definitely seemed to prefer the gruyère over the jack. Granted they ate both, but the ones that ate the gruyère seemed a little more self-satisfied about it.
Did they left a bigger tip? ; )
Ahaha. Dunno why this made my laugh. Is it supposed to be funny? I love it though. Very much. Well done 💕💕
Haha Yes, it was supposed to be funny & I sincerely thank you for laughing despite not being certain.
Very interesting Tref.. next time mix cinnamon with molasses together. The ants will undoubtedly stick around. Have a good weekend.
Hah! I will take that into consideration.
I love this clever ending!
Thanks, SS!
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