Lamington fun facts for kids

The chocolate Lamington is as Australian as meat pies, kangaroos and Holdens.

(Who else remembers that song/chant from way back when - "Football, meat-pies, kangaroos and Holden cars...?")

For years lamingtons have been a way of putting stale or over-cooked sponge cake to good use, but where did it actually start?

The story goes that the humble lamington was created as the result of an accident by a maid servant on the staff of Lord Lamington, the 8th Governor of Queensland.

While working at Government House in Brisbane, he maid-servant accidentally dropped the Governor's favourite sponge cake into some melted chocolate. Lord Lamington was not a man to waste food and suggested it then be dipped in coconut to avoid getting chocolatey fingers.

According to Hansard, in 1998, an elected delegate by the name of Paul Tully, suggested that from his research on the previous Australian Governors, the colonies and states had produced evidence of only "one, single, solitary, positive achievement of any Governor since the First Fleet arrived in 1788" - Lord Lamington's creation of the lamington.

http://www.funfacts.com.au/a-lesson-in-lamingtons/