Candlelight, wine, music and location can all work together to set a romantic scene, but there are other things at play.  Fantastical, classical, magical, all definite words per Sir Webster, so what enables the common Joe to take such a literary license and add letters to the traditional term romantic.  Many will say there is no excuse for such a grammatical error you egotistical dim-witted dupe.  It is because of people like you that words like “irregardless” are now mainstream.  Look it up.  While listed in the dictionary, per widespread use in everyday speech, it will still ring incorrect by your ever faithful spell check.  Alas, I think Webster was a romantic and anything or anyone that can surpass the low expectations we’ve come to accept from the word is permitted, with proper execution, to use it in its heightened idealized romantic-al form.

Who's Romanticizing Now?

What makes this bread pudding oh so romantic-al you ask?  I think there are a number of attributes generally associated with more romantic or umm seductive foods.  There’s texture, smooth, dense and creamy.  The bread pudding, with the addition of ice cream, is all of these things.  There’s quality, decadent and rich.  Check.  And then there are external qualifiers including but not limited to size and presentation, the aforementioned setting and the company being kept.  The thought that goes behind the choice of recipe is key and if it’s in accordance with the other person’s tastes.   Additionally, is it in accordance with the rest of the meal or did you just consume ½ lb of bread in one sitting?  While you might feel quite satisfied after the consumption of breadsticks, a pizza and bread pudding I doubt you’re feeling very romantic, much less romantic-al.


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