Sheet cake or sheath cake?

Cake person here - SHEET cake lol. Or as so many people call them "SLAB" cakes.

However I never make them. If they want a slab cake for extra servings I'll make a proper cake tier that is the same as my regular tiers. I'm not Costco

Agreed!

No horse industry affiliation here, but it still brings that to mind!

Yep, agreed, nothing to do with horses but still not a word that goes with cake.

Have never heard "sheath" cake before.

What about it would be ‘sheath’ like in any way? Thats just odd



After reading the article I’m on the poorly fitting false teeth bench and it just caught on in a specific geographic region. - sorry if that is rude to anyone.

It’s just not a sheath cake? What is inside it if it’s a sheath?

I've never heard of "sheath" cake. And I definitely don't picture anything remotely baking related when I hear the word "sheath".

To me, personally, it sounds like a similar situation to instances when people call a dresser or bureau "chester drawers" as opposed to chest of drawers. It started off as people mishearing something, but then spread for some reason to the point where it's used with some regularity despite being incorrect.

Sheet cake

I’m old, but I associate the word “sheath” as in “Sheath Dress”.

Sheath dress - Wikipedia
In fashion, a sheath dress is a fitted, straight cut dress, often nipped at the waistline with no waist seam. When constructing the dress, the bodice and skirt are joined together by combining the skirt darts into one dart: this aligns the skirt darts with the bodice waist dart.

Not a horse person, but the mother of a boy. Much discussion was had regarding the removal of this sheath of skin. We had three boys in my family between my sisters and myself. Two had the surgery and the one that did not was eventually extremely resentful that his parents made the decision that they did. He ended up having it done as an adult. The sister that made that decision for her son did so because her husband didn’t have the procedure done when he was an infant. During a discussion about this topic, my own son stated he was thankful that I made the decision that I did way back then.

The very last thing I envision when hearing that word is cake! Maybe a sheath for the knife that cuts the cake?

Well DH tried to convince me there was a haircut called a "bull cut" the other day... "You mean bowl cut? Like Howard on Big Bang Theory?" "No, a bull cut." "Google says there's no such thing." "Well Google is wrong!" Eye roll from me. He would probably think there was such a thing as a sheath cake too if I asked:P

When my niece was learning to spell, she told me that she had always thought people said “jress” and “chree” instead of “dress” and “tree.” That is what she had always heard.  She was so interested to know what other words she had been hearing wrong.  I mentioned this to her mom and suggested that she have her daughter’s hearing tested. 

Then, many many years later, when I was taking my mom in to get hearing aids, the person suggested that the type of loss Mom had was typically inherited by female children.  I had always thought mine was diminishing because of those concerts I had attended.  She tested my hearing and mine was worse than my mom’s and she was in her 90s! We both bought hearing aids that day.  The next time I saw my sisters, I explained what I was told and had them try my hearing aids on.  Both were shocked at how much better their hearing was, even with my settings. They both made appointments to get their own.

I have no doubt that if four of us in one family, well possibly five including my niece, were dealing with a hereditary hearing loss, there had to be many more people out there.  We were told we had a very common type of loss.  So I have no doubt that someone might hear sheath cake when the person speaking actually said sheet cake.  And it spreads on from there.

Reminds me of my family---one day a bunch of the adults were discussing that as kids we all thought our Aunt, whose name is Anne Marie, was actually called Dan Marie.  Because when you put "aunT" and "Anne" together quickly, it sounded like "Dan" We all reached some point where we figured out her name on our own, but we never realized that nearly every other kid in the family heard it the same way.  

Some of us first wondered if we were supposed to being saying Dawn Marie while others just wondered why half of her name was a "boy" name.  

Right, that's exactly where my mind went to. No sheath cakes for me, thanks!

I work in a GP surgery. Sheath has an entirely different meaning to me!