• Jesus_666@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I once attended a wedding in the States once and I still distinctly remember the wedding cake. It was the worst cake I ever had.

    It was pretty, mind you. But the texture sucked and it tasted like sugar and fat and nothing else. It was embarrassingly bad. For some reason none of the Americans present saw anything wrong with this monstrosity.

    A wedding cake celebrates one of the most important moments of two people’s lives. It’s ridiculously expensive. And Americans either fully accept that it’s a barely edible piece of decoration or they actually have no standards regarding baked goods at all.

    (The success of Twinkies does suggest a most unhappy conclusion here…)

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      5 hours ago

      Well, my Mark of the Beasus friend, for a country that consumes insane amounts of treats, fats, and sugar, we’ve got really shit tastes. Like, we wanted a strawberry cream cheese icing with strawberry slices in the center with lemon poppy cake. Instead, we got yellow lemon-flavored cake with pink fat 'n sugar icing. I swear, it was like a child made it.

      But it sure looked pretty!

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah, we just kinda accept that wedding cake often is aesthetics over taste. Over on the other site, r/fondanthate is a thing that exists so yeah it’s bad. We still eat the shitty wedding cake out of politeness and because it’s still cake.

      (The twinkie profits weren’t enough to save Hostess from bankruptcy so they’re not that successful.)

    • jballs@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      I seen people do two cakes: one that’s expensive but is just for looks and one that’s cheap but tasty.