Guarantee an End to Winter: Party With a Kringle

"Spring officially begins..."Oh who cares when spring OFFICIALLY begins? Wisconsinites want spring NOW! Even if you're out-of-state, you probably heard groaning from us Wisconsinites a few days ago when our meteorologists said we'd be back in the deep-freeze this week. "Well, good news," they said today. "Today... TODAY!!!" they said, "is the last day of frigid cold. Starting tomorrow temps will reach the 30's and we'll all really start to thaw come the weekend!" Do you hear us cheering now? Ol'Jimmy the groundhog from Sun Prairie, WI said we'd have six more weeks of winter, and we did. But for this celebrated rodent to be truly correct, then our Wisconsin winter must be over by Tuesday. We're all rooting that Ol' Jimmy is smarter than he looks.
Well, I've got a secret trick to tip the scale in Jimmy's favor. Perhaps you'll say it's just superstition, but what are the desperate if not superstitious? I learned a way to shimmy past fate decades ago in a small apartment in Evanston, IL. Thank heavens we were moving out; that apartment had ROACHES! As we packed up, my husband packed a disgusting, squishy, large, rubber roach. My questioning eyes could not hide my disgust. He replied, "This will be the only roach we take to our new apartment." And he was right. It worked! No roaches at the new place, - or ever since.
So, where am I going with this? If we don't want Old Man Winter to follow us into spring, we need to carry a talisman (Webster's dictionary defines talisman as "an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune.") So what talisman will keep Old Man Winter back with his March lion and far away from our spring lambs? We must carry something "wintry". Or perhaps we should pretend to revel in something symbolizing the depths of winter.
But I've never been good at pretending to revel. I prefer actual revelry to virtual revelry. So I'm going all out. Time for a killer, end-of-winter party! We'll eat all the favorite winter foods that we won't want again until next November. And I know the perfect food to say winter: A Christmas tree made out of kringle. Yes, Wisconsinites, be they in-state or out-of-state, say Christmas with kringle. I know this because last December hundreds of people ordered kringles from Wisconsinmade.com to give as gifts and enjoy at home on Christmas day. People told me that this light flaky Danish pastry filled with fruit or nuts says winter celebration.
But looking at this kringle Christmas tree causes conflict within me. I do love kringle. I like it in almond flavor, pecan flavor, raspberry, blueberry, and apple. I like cherry cream cheese kringle, and just plain cheese kringle. As a friend said, "How can you have a bad kringle?" There is no such thing. So I think a party featuring kringle is a marvelous idea. But can I bring myself to follow my superstitious advice and eat a kringle Christmas tree? Fear of further winter urges me to try. What to do?
PUNT - eat both, eat all, eat kringle.