Let Them Eat Cake

[ithildin]

Pillaged from mosellegreen

Have You Ever Baked A Cake Beside A Mass Grave?

A wonderful way to while away the hours. See what happens when one unsuspecting soul asks what cake topping is called in the UK.

Later: The Cliff Notes Wiki version.

Comments

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that they need to explain what "cake" means to the British too. I'm getting the feeling they mean little hand-hand held things.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, some people were specifying "sponge cake," but it wasn't necessarily pointed out as a referential difference.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

My grandparents were from England, and at least for me growing up, 'cakes' meant smallish handheld things you'd eat with tea, and 'a cake' meant the big thing you cut into pieces with knife and eat with a fork. [g]

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

Our biscuits are certainly quite different :)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Now there's a debate! [g]

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

Y'think?

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/blog/068-jaffa-cakes/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7340101.stm

It's not a debate, it's a tax issue!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Oh.My.Lord!! See? Just proves my theory that anything involving beaurocracy is a Monty Python sketch.

Oh, and... MMMMMMMM! Jaffa Cakes!!

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

When you say "cake" to an American we generally think round or sheet cake that is cut into pieces and served to a number of people. The icing is often, but not always, soft, and the cake is eaten with a fork.

BTW: whether a person says "icing" or "frosting" in America is a regionalism. I can't remember which is from where, but it came up in a meme quiz a while back.