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The cake so good you'll eat it even if no one's having a birthday
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Cake is kinda like sex or pizza. Even when it's bad, it's good. A lot of people settle for the Duncan-Hines boxed cake, and that's fine on a budget or in a pinch. Whether it's quick and easy or made by overblown Italian pseudocelebrities from Jersey City and covered in nigh-inedible fondant, cake almost never feels like an everyday dessert. It's for special occasions, because it's so moist and decadent. There's a reason why they put Marie Antoinette's neck on the guillotine for her tone deaf dismissal of the poor in France saying "let them eat" it. There's a reason why cake is almost always the food of choice when a filmmaker or television director wants to show a depressed woman trying to cheer herself up. It's reserved for birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and funerals. Bad cake is still mostly sweet and moist if flawed. Good cake though? Much in the same way that good or great pizza or sex leaves an impression, the best cake always leaves you wanting more even if you've eaten it all, or more pointedly, even if you've eaten too much of it and can't fit a single morsel more into your belly.
