Visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras and if you’re lucky, you’ll get tossed a strand of purple, green, or gold beads or maybe even one strand with all three and get to enjoy a slice of king cake ...
A king cake is a wreath-shaped cake similar ... along with gold, green and purple sugars. Collectively, these shades are the official Mardi Gras colors, and you can’t know what king cake is ...