One of my Favorite Souvenirs

This isn’t some sappy play on words where I say that Mihret is my favorite souvenir from Addis. But this is a love story, of sorts.

But first, some background…

Growing up, my favorite flavor of cake was orange cake. I especially liked it with either cream cheese or sour cream flavored icing.

It’s the best. thing. on. Earth.

I would ask for it on any special occasion. Shoot, it was even the flavor of my Groom’s Cake at our wedding.

Yes, I love Orange Cake!

Unfortunately, the cake mix is impossible to find. I’ve looked in Tennessee and now I’ve looked in Muncie. A quick glance at their websites shows that Duncan Hines still makes the mix, but I can’t find it anywhere on Pillsbury’s site. This has left me sorely disappointed.

Distraught, even.

So imagine my surprise when we went to the corner market in Addis to buy the formula Mihret was drinking (Bebelac, to be specific) and other foods when the clouds opened up and a light came down from heaven, filtering through the windows and shining directly upon the top shelf. That’s when I saw it.

Orange Cake Mix!


I had to fly thousands of miles and search to the ends of the earth to find it. Oh, Orange Cake…I’ve missed you so!

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Howdy. I'm Matt. My wife, Christy, and I have four kids and two dogs, I'm passionate about orphan care. I'm a die-hard fan of the Evansville Aces, the Indiana Hoosiers, and Star Wars. I'm trying to live life by the Todd family motto: "It behooves us to live!"
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