I buy myself a 8 inch cake one day a year. My birthday.
I’m in my 40s. But I love cake. But cake not great for health.
1 cake is acceptable.
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There really is one for everything huh
Then you do it, and your body punishes you for it this time, instead of your parents.
I remember one time as a young adult eating a cake for dinner, paired with a large beer.
I think realized in the midst of my severe tummy ache that perhaps there are reasons why my parents didn’t let me do such things 😆
Yeah, your body will only accept so much sugar before everything gets out of whack
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This is a dangerous realization for some.
Except the beetus demon.
Huh …. Then I remember all those cakes I made as a kid with my moms help were so much better than crap from a grocery, but I no longer have time or practice to do that
The girls that lived across the street from me had an Easy-Bake oven. Even as a kid I knew those little cakes were fucking terrible. I ate them anyway. Thank god for LED lightbulbs.
I sometimes remember this, but then I get to the store and a cheesecake is $17 and I suddenly remember I don’t actually need it that bad
I am a slut for cheesecake
Oh my goooooood……
The main ingredient in cheesecake is cream cheese, and you need like 2 lbs (32 oz) for an average cake, so that’s immediately like $9 before all other ingredients
At LiDL or Aldi an 8 oz. brick of cream cheese is like $1.50, so a little less. What blows my mind is that a 16 oz. plastic tub of cream cheese is like $8 at most places. Like, why the fuck does the plastic tub make it 5X as expensive?
yeah my mom makes cheesecakes to sell and never goes under 30 bucks. but i can guarantee it will be the best cheesecake of your life, and that is independantly verified
My local grocery store’s bakeshop sometimes puts up an 8-inch boston cream cake for only $12. I don’t know why it’s so cheap (a similar sized chocolate cake is $18-$22), but I can’t stop myself from buying it when it’s available. I can’t believe a cake that good costs just $12.
Cake mix is $5.
That’s way too much for cheesecake, who’s your cake guy?
Unfortunately I need to be gluten free.
Which makes it a $35 cheesecake thats also smaller. Fuck you shoprite, and fuck you gastrointestinal system in my body.
I’m not gluten free, bur I hate cheesecake. Just add sugar to old cream cheese with no crust. Problem solved.
I know the pain. Reminds me of my last road trip, where the best hot food option available was a pizza place that charged an extra $4 for a chickpea crust. $19 for a tiny, shittier pizza. No, thanks. Doritos and soda FTL.
Key lime pie is our benchmark, a new brand will appear for $7.99 or something, and then 3 weeks later they hike the price up to $14. I am not eating a $14 key lime pie from Kroger. Fuck right off with that.
It’s funny tho how junk food like pies, cakes, and especially CANDY have taken such an inflationary hike - it’s definitely got me eating better, and I am kind of glad for it (and we prove yet again that excise taxes work towards public health, these ones were just done for profit instead of funding waterways or clean air or some shit).
You can freeze leftover cheesecake.
Leftover cheesecake is my new favorite oxymoron.
I can attest that you cannot freeze leftover cheesecake simply because there never is any left over
As an adult, I can’t stand cake and refuse to eat it no matter whose birthday or wedding or whatever it is, and I don’t care who I piss off.
Why would I be pissed that you don’t eat cake? That’s more cake for me.
People get oddly offended about that sort of thing.
I hate this about growing up. Once you can do the thing, you no longer wanna. :(
Of all the opinions I’ve ever heard, this is certainly one of them.
I can kind of get it when overly generous people bring in food and want everyone to eat and join in the good vibes. Some can be rather pushy. But definitely too extreme.
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This is one of the best parts of adulthood. And drinking out of the milk carton. Often these things go together. 😉
Cake store closed :(
Tried this once while watching Matilda when I got to that scene. Paused it and went to the store and bought a gallon of milk, then stopped by portillos and got a chocolate cake.
Later that night I had big regrets
As an adult I’ve had enough stomach aches, and gained enough belly fat, and developed enough of a palette, to viscerally dislike eating lots of cake.
Yep, if I really want cake I’ll pay the ridiculous price for a single slice. Yes it’s expensive, but it’s cheaper than buying a whole cake, and I know after that one piece I won’t want anymore for a long time.
The child in me screams for cake
The stomach in my adult body screams for pepto
What’s pepto?
Pepto-Bismol.
Using science to fight bad decisions. It’s the American way.
buying poison and buying medicine to maximise profit
Bismuth subsalicylate, or pink bismuth.
