Originally Posted by Pemberley
- She has decided that she has "columns" so that she can still have dessert even if she is too full to finish her dinner. "My dinner column has gone down and my dessert column has come up."

In our family (from my grandfather, actually), that is known as the "pie space" -- it's a wedge-shaped spot that is always reserved for a piece of pie, after everything else is full. smile It can be filled with ice cream, to my kids' relief.