Difference between revisions of "Cake"

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When, in the course of human events, an individual desires something extra-special which he doesn't really need, something for dessert, after he's already consumed a sufficiently sized, and ineffably satisfing meal, he will therefore find it neccesary to create a confection unlike any other previously concevied food.

Cake is the product of five thousand years of people striving to make a delicious thing to eat which no one truly needs. Thus it is the very essence of human gluttony.

It is originally derived from bread, only with different sweet things added to it. The Egyptians had honeycakes, the Greeks had "plakous"; the name came from the word for "flat". This also used honey and nuts. Cake gradually evolved to a smaller, sweeter, more expensive form of bread: bakers used only the finest ingredients avalible. If a man ate cake on a semi-regular basis it was a status symbol. You had to be a rich man.

With the Industrial Revolution ingredients became cheaper, and the common could indulge in Cake. Now cake is eaten pretty often ^[1] and in all sorts of flavors and sizes; and in many different countries. The freedom of excess is more accesible than ever before in human history.

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