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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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  • Technically a cake can be a range of things - the Websters dictionary definition (with a few added examples):

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cake

    1 -a
    : a breadlike food made from a dough or batter that is usually fried or baked in small flat shapes and is often unleavened
    1 - b
    : a sweet baked food made from a dough or thick batter usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (such as baking powder)
    1 - c
    : a flattened usually round mass of food that is baked or fried
    a fish cake
    2 - a
    : a block of compacted or congealed matter
    a cake of ice
    a urinal cake
    2 - b
    : a hard or brittle layer or deposit
    caked on dirt
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  • Technically a cake can be a range of things - the Websters dictionary definition (with a few added examples):

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cake

    1 -a
    : a breadlike food made from a dough or batter that is usually fried or baked in small flat shapes and is often unleavened
    1 - b
    : a sweet baked food made from a dough or thick batter usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (such as baking powder)
    1 - c
    : a flattened usually round mass of food that is baked or fried
    a fish cake
    2 - a
    : a block of compacted or congealed matter
    a cake of ice
    a urinal cake
    2 - b
    : a hard or brittle layer or deposit
    caked on dirt
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