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Post by peano on May 13, 2019 14:30:22 GMT
I'd just like to say that however I can get the most frosting is how the cake should be cut. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/tongue.jpg.gif) And I'd like to go off topic a little bit, (but not really) by talking about the last time we got a takeout pizza. When I went to pick it up, the girl at the counter asked me if I wanted it cut (huh?) and when I said yes, because how the hell else are people going to eat it, she proceeded to take the pizza cutter to the pizza like Jeffrey Dahmer. In other words, not nice, uniform wedges, but random slicing like a raging psycho. So we're talking a 2" sliver crust to crust from the far right of the pizza with virtually no pizza filling/toppings, square pieces, rectangular pieces, etc. We went back yesterday and ordered a medium pizza and told the girl at the counter we wanted it cut normally, mentioning what happened the previous time. She told us that's how they taught them to slice large pizzas. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/confused.jpg.gif) ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/blink.jpg.gif) ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/crazy.jpg.gif)
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Post by MaryMary on May 13, 2019 14:36:22 GMT
Sorry, not sorry. Bleck. I have never cared for cake.
Also, I’m pretty sure this letter is a joke.
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Post by cakediva on May 13, 2019 14:44:00 GMT
Cake is gross no matter how it’s cut. You have super cute kids and are usually such a nice person that I'll cut you some slack on this one.
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Post by sharlag on May 13, 2019 14:45:37 GMT
What does being a cake asshole have to do with OCD? My 76 year old mom does this, on cakes she bakes to consume in her own home. I do believe the elderly can get away with some things, and of course, this is at HER house for consumption by her and dad, so that's different. I tend to think the middle-cutting writer to Miss Manners is self-indulgent when he cuts his first piece from the middle, but then am mostly agreeing with Susie_Homemaker , that it's not worth fussing over.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on May 13, 2019 14:53:09 GMT
I'd just like to say that however I can get the most frosting is how the cake should be cut. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/tongue.jpg.gif) it sounds like the person in the letter to Miss Manners was just being an a$sh0le, in my opinion. I can't believe anyone would EVER cut a cake like that on purpose. (and now I want store-bought decorated cake, too... Costco is pretty good, for the price.)
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 13, 2019 15:01:50 GMT
I'd just like to say that however I can get the most frosting is how the cake should be cut. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/tongue.jpg.gif) it sounds like the person in the letter to Miss Manners was just being an a$sh0le, in my opinion. I can't believe anyone would EVER cut a cake like that on purpose. (and now I want store-bought decorated cake, too... Costco is pretty good, for the price.) I agree with you on the Costco cake, but those cakes are way the heck too big for the three of us. We’re better off with their cupcakes CUT IN HALF because they’re also way too big! (But in a good way.) At least you can freeze them and then pull one out every so often when you’re in the mood for a little cake. On a related note, they freeze exceptionally well! We had some leftover after a party so I froze them then wrapped each one individually with Press N Seal wrap, put them back in their little pod and popped them back into the freezer. Every so often we’d thaw one out and they were always fine. I got brave and ate the last one FOURTEEN MONTHS later, and it was STILL GOOD!
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Post by schizo319 on May 13, 2019 15:05:46 GMT
I don't like frosting, so I deliberately make sure I'm NOT the first person, so I can choose a piece with less frosting. Sounds like the letter writer is one of "those" who needs to do quirky things for attention.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on May 13, 2019 15:13:26 GMT
I will add that one of my favorite things is having a cake that's mine- as in my birthday cake- and I know no one else is going to want any of the leftovers and I can take a fork and just eat willy nilly all over the place whatever pieces and parts I feel like! I've had a delicious chocolate cake with super chocolatey ganache and other decorations and I know that I can just eat all of the yumminess till I puke ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/laugh.jpg.gif)
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Post by lucyg on May 13, 2019 15:54:18 GMT
MORE likely a man. A very OCD man, I’d say. I bet he pushes lots of his co-workers’ buttons, not just about the cake. Unless it’s just a joke. What does being a cake asshole have to do with OCD? Cake asshole. Warning: I am not an expert. But there’s a lot of OCD in my family. It feels very OCD to me to insist on taking the first piece out of the middle of the cake when you know it annoys everyone else, and not because you’re trying to annoy them. I still think it’s probably a joke, though.
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Post by hop2 on May 13, 2019 16:13:07 GMT
I'd just like to say that however I can get the most frosting is how the cake should be cut. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/tongue.jpg.gif) And I'd like to go off topic a little bit, (but not really) by talking about the last time we got a takeout pizza. When I went to pick it up, the girl at the counter asked me if I wanted it cut (huh?) and when I said yes, because how the hell else are people going to eat it, she proceeded to take the pizza cutter to the pizza like Jeffrey Dahmer. In other words, not nice, uniform wedges, but random slicing like a raging psycho. So we're talking a 2" sliver crust to crust from the far right of the pizza with virtually no pizza filling/toppings, square pieces, rectangular pieces, etc. We went back yesterday and ordered a medium pizza and told the girl at the counter we wanted it cut normally, mentioning what happened the previous time. She told us that's how they taught them to slice large pizzas. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/confused.jpg.gif) ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/blink.jpg.gif) ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/crazy.jpg.gif) Was that in Maryland? I had a similar experience in Harve de Grace with my niece.
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Post by peano on May 13, 2019 16:20:27 GMT
I'd just like to say that however I can get the most frosting is how the cake should be cut. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/tongue.jpg.gif) And I'd like to go off topic a little bit, (but not really) by talking about the last time we got a takeout pizza. When I went to pick it up, the girl at the counter asked me if I wanted it cut (huh?) and when I said yes, because how the hell else are people going to eat it, she proceeded to take the pizza cutter to the pizza like Jeffrey Dahmer. In other words, not nice, uniform wedges, but random slicing like a raging psycho. So we're talking a 2" sliver crust to crust from the far right of the pizza with virtually no pizza filling/toppings, square pieces, rectangular pieces, etc. We went back yesterday and ordered a medium pizza and told the girl at the counter we wanted it cut normally, mentioning what happened the previous time. She told us that's how they taught them to slice large pizzas. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/confused.jpg.gif) ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/blink.jpg.gif) ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/crazy.jpg.gif) Was that in Maryland? I had a similar experience in Harve de Grace with my niece. No. A local branch of one of the two venerable old New Haven apizza restaurants.
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Post by AnastasiaBeaverhausn on May 13, 2019 16:24:22 GMT
So as someone with OCD tendencies, it's possible that the next people to cut from that cake won't be able to line up the cuts around the oblong hole. Meaning pieces are going to be odd shapes and sizes where this person took a chunk from the middle. That is enough to make my brain explode.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 13, 2019 16:53:40 GMT
I will add that one of my favorite things is having a cake that's mine- as in my birthday cake- and I know no one else is going to want any of the leftovers and I can take a fork and just eat willy nilly all over the place whatever pieces and parts I feel like! I've had a delicious chocolate cake with super chocolatey ganache and other decorations and I know that I can just eat all of the yumminess till I puke ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/laugh.jpg.gif) This is why I choose to make my own birthday cakes every year. That way I get exactly what I want, but I don’t just dig in with a fork because I’m a great baker and everyone else will want to eat it too.
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Post by kibblesandbits on May 13, 2019 16:58:17 GMT
Cake is gross no matter how it’s cut. Hear, hear. I thought i was the only person on the planet that won't eat cake.
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Post by hop2 on May 13, 2019 16:59:50 GMT
Life it too short to give a shit where someone cuts the cake! Eat it or not, cut it in the middle or the edges... who truly cares?! well, you can have the fillingless piece of pie my MIL leaves next thanksgiving. As much as I hate when MIL mangles a cake or pie I only say something when the filling or integrity of surrounding pieces is at risk. Dear MIL it looks like you need help with that. Kind of thing which was once. After she had left 2 pieces of pie without filling at the previous celebration I saw her go tocut pie and jumped to help
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 13, 2019 17:00:40 GMT
Cake is gross no matter how it’s cut. Hear, hear. I thought i was the only person on the planet that won't eat cake. LOL. I guess you both found your tribe!
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Post by rickmer on May 13, 2019 20:58:47 GMT
i get some people don't like icing. so it's simple to say "oh, i'll wait, serve others as i prefer a middle piece with less icing". or take the outside piece and just don't *eat* all the icing. suddenly, i want cake. this person would tick me off. it's just a control thing. gotta get there first but gotta get the piece i must have and everyone else be damned. ugh. all that is wrong with this world, right there... ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png)
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 21:33:55 GMT
A. Aren't all letters to Miss Manners et al fake?
B. Lunchroom cake is going to get mangled/poked/dried out on the edges no matter how it's cut because it's lunchroom cake.
C. People will complain and be annoyed and even be really upset by the mangling of a lunchroom cake right before they eat it.
D. Because cake.
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Post by salem on May 13, 2019 21:35:00 GMT
i get some people don't like icing. so it's simple to say "oh, i'll wait, serve others as i prefer a middle piece with less icing". or take the outside piece and just don't *eat* all the icing. suddenly, i want cake. this person would tick me off. it's just a control thing. gotta get there first but gotta get the piece i must have and everyone else be damned. ugh. all that is wrong with this world, right there... ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png) Damn, I think I work with this middle of the cake cutting PITA! Always gotta be first cause God forbid they miss out on something, but if they just waited a few minutes for someone to cut the outside, nothing gets mangled. Ugh. Me? I want ALL the frosting! Bring. It.
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Post by sharlag on May 13, 2019 21:41:20 GMT
B. Lunchroom cake is going to get mangled/poked/dried out on the edges no matter how it's cut because it's lunchroom cake. Yeah, everyone knows lunchroom cake is notorious for low standards in general.
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Post by kels99 on May 13, 2019 21:46:54 GMT
Life it too short to give a shit where someone cuts the cake! Eat it or not, cut it in the middle or the edges... who truly cares?! Completely agree! I have lots of things to fret about---how someone cuts a cake is definitely not one of them!
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Post by catmom on May 13, 2019 21:55:25 GMT
B. Lunchroom cake is going to get mangled/poked/dried out on the edges no matter how it's cut because it's lunchroom cake. Yeah, everyone knows lunchroom cake is notorious for low standards in general. I LOVE cake. But lunchroom cake is just a travesty and a tremendous waste of calories. That I eat every time anyway. Because cake.
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on May 14, 2019 0:23:25 GMT
I think this was just covered on Blackish. Rainbow cut a circle around the center of a cake, then cut slices from the intact outside which left a small cake without frosting on the sides in the middle. I'm wondering if that is what the firefighter is trying to describe. He/she never said they take a slice from the middle, just that they make the first cut of the cake around the middle. Rainbow was mad becasue it's "common knowledge" that is how a cake is cut.
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Post by magenta on May 14, 2019 3:02:41 GMT
Cake is gross no matter how it’s cut. Hear, hear. I thought i was the only person on the planet that won't eat cake. Nope. I'll gladly join you and MaryMary . But I do care how it's cut.
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Post by librarylady on May 14, 2019 3:10:06 GMT
I think this was just covered on Blackish. Rainbow cut a circle around the center of a cake, then cut slices from the intact outside which left a small cake without frosting on the sides in the middle. I'm wondering if that is what the firefighter is trying to describe. He/she never said they take a slice from the middle, just that they make the first cut of the cake around the middle. Rainbow was mad becasue it's "common knowledge" that is how a cake is cut. Wedding cakes are often cut this way. But the letter from the person says Not the same.......
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Post by librarylady on May 14, 2019 3:12:23 GMT
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on May 14, 2019 13:08:46 GMT
As much as I hate when MIL mangles a cake or pie I only say something when the filling or integrity of surrounding pieces is at risk. Dear MIL it looks like you need help with that. Kind of thing which was once. After she had left 2 pieces of pie without filling at the previous celebration I saw her go tocut pie and jumped to help That's a whole other ball game! Don't cut the pie and take out the filling from all of the surrounding area, that's just wrong!
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 14, 2019 13:46:58 GMT
As much as I hate when MIL mangles a cake or pie I only say something when the filling or integrity of surrounding pieces is at risk. Dear MIL it looks like you need help with that. Kind of thing which was once. After she had left 2 pieces of pie without filling at the previous celebration I saw her go tocut pie and jumped to help That's a whole other ball game! Don't cut the pie and take out the filling from all of the surrounding area, that's just wrong! LOL. DH would ‘cut a b!tch’ if someone left him a piece of pie with no filling! Pie is his kryptonite. A couple years ago he declared on Memorial Day weekend that it was The Summer of Pie and I would say he requested a different kind of pie just about every other week, all summer long! It’s a good thing I bake or we would go broke. A whole pie at the little restaurant and bakery out there at the lake is something like $36! ![:shocked:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/JvSt42CUoZ9LG952aAaF.jpg) I usually let DH do the honors with cutting pie, he’s a bit of an expert.
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Post by Country Ham on May 14, 2019 13:57:12 GMT
And yes as a baker the correct way to cut a round cake is around the edge. At our birthday parties we cut into the center of a round cake and removed a cylinder shaped piece making it easier to cut into slices.
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Post by miominmio on May 14, 2019 14:03:15 GMT
And yes as a baker the correct way to cut a round cake is around the edge. At our birthday parties we cut into the center of a round cake and removed a cylinder shaped piece making it easier to cut into slices. We cut into the cake the same way, but we don’t remove the center part.
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