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BRUTAL HOAX PERPETRATED

It’s a fake cake! Not intended to be eaten! Display purposes only! AIEEEEEE!

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Ramsey and Adams now have their Saturday column material. Take the rest of the week off, boys.

Posted by Tim B. on 07/06/2005 at 08:44 AM
  1. It’s a fake cake!

    Yes, but is it plastic?!

    Posted by scott crawford on 2005 07 06 at 10:25 AM • permalink

  2. The original version of Wm. Harnett’s _After the Hunt_ had a fake sheet cake on a table too, but art historians don’t usually bring it up.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2005 07 06 at 10:35 AM • permalink

  3. Hey, I was at a wedding once (Whitby, Ontario, summer of 1977) where they had a fake cake, with a little slot in the side so the bride could be photographed ``cutting’’ it.  (The actual cake was presliced and distributed to the guests afterwards.) So the practice not only predates Dubya’s presidency but is found in non-US locales. If Adams et al want to get indignant about it, be my guest, but for God’s sake get a little perspective.

    Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2005 07 06 at 10:38 AM • permalink

  4. Bakers lied!  Diets died!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 06 at 10:46 AM • permalink

  5. Why is Bush wearing a frilly dress in picture 2?

    Posted by Rob Read on 2005 07 06 at 10:51 AM • permalink

  6. Is this one of those notorious stunt cakes?

    Posted by Blue Hen on 2005 07 06 at 12:18 PM • permalink

  7. Wait! America is the Great Satan. The Cake is simulated devil’s food. Coincidence? I think not.

    Posted by Blue Hen on 2005 07 06 at 12:19 PM • permalink

  8. In case anyone’s unsure, it’s a real cake.  In day to day food, the military is mediocre and uninspired, but when holidays roll around, it’s quite amazing what the cooks can do. 

    The standard procedure is to let everyone see it as they go through the line, then cut it up once most people have eaten.  (Assuming the chow hall is big enough to hold most of the people at once)

    When I was in Kuwait in 03, we never had a shortage of cake or ice cream.  We might not have gotten the ice cream we wanted… (Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Magnum Bars) but we always had something.

    Posted by Kevin on 2005 07 06 at 12:45 PM • permalink

  9. We used to play tricks on newbies to the office by covering sponges with chocolate icing and inviting them to cut themselves a piece.  Come to think of it, I’ve had a few pieces of wedding cake that were kind of like that.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 07 06 at 12:55 PM • permalink

  10. Are we saying that Iraq is a piece of cake?

    Posted by c. austin on 2005 07 06 at 05:05 PM • permalink

  11. mmmmm.  Cake.

    Posted by Achillea on 2005 07 06 at 09:21 PM • permalink

  12. Kevin, we still have the Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Magnum Bars here, but real ice cream is available now, sometimes in Baskin & Robbins flavors.  Doesn’t taste plastic at all!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 07 at 01:05 AM • permalink

  13. I would stack a magnum bar up against a Dove bar any day.

    I don’t think my taste buds were. We had a B&R on base, but the KDD stuff was so good, that no one ever got a regular ice cream there.  Usually a shake or a sundae - which meant the line was nice and slow.

    Posted by Kevin on 2005 07 07 at 01:10 AM • permalink

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