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What is cake?

DeSpereaux

After a bunch of mental-acrobatics and complex-philosophical consideration. I have decided to challenge this idea, at least in my own mind, of what cake is..

Does a cake always have to be sweet, and not savoury, or can it also be savoury? If the former is true, who made it so, and are they correct..?

If there is no patron of the cake, if there is no rule on sweetness being the core-component, then is it we who have created this guise which enshrouds the true-nature and potential of cake. If there is a sin present, in the presentation of cake as savoury, have we not created the sin in believing that it so..?

So I ask you this, what do you see, when you envision a cake that is savoury and why?

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  • DeSpereaux said:
    Does a cake always have to be sweet, and not savoury, or can it also be savoury? If the former is true, who made it so, and are they correct..?

    Originally a cake is just a flatbread or roll, usually an individual portion. So it doesn't have to be sweet, no. There were cakes in Europe before we got sugar, but they were generally referred to as bread - like gingerbread, which we might think of as cake now. 

    Most of what we think of as cake now is gateaux. Cake is these days a very broad term.

    I shall stop talking about cake now! 

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  • DeSpereaux said:
    Does a cake always have to be sweet, and not savoury, or can it also be savoury? If the former is true, who made it so, and are they correct..?

    Originally a cake is just a flatbread or roll, usually an individual portion. So it doesn't have to be sweet, no. There were cakes in Europe before we got sugar, but they were generally referred to as bread - like gingerbread, which we might think of as cake now. 

    Most of what we think of as cake now is gateaux. Cake is these days a very broad term.

    I shall stop talking about cake now! 

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