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    • Posts: 5,132 Member
      Bry_Lander wrote: »
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      Not directed toward you specifically, just ponderings about the cake-thinking culture in general

      But who posts daily (or even weekly) pictures of cake? I'm not friends with anyone like that.
      Maybe a professional cake decorator posts daily pictures of their creations?
      Otherwise...I don't know how realistic it is to ponder on what daily cake talk says about our culture if there is no daily cake talk...
    • Posts: 8,934 Member
      GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »
      I can't even remember the last time I had real cake (this doesn't count protein cheesecake). I think it was maybe two Thanksgivings ago? I made a cheesecake? Maybe? My memory isn't always the best. Cake just doesn't factor into my life that much.

      Not near as much as trying to get a rise out of people using straw men by the two of you does, apparently.

      Had one bite of Cheesecake last week. I had already planned my food day and didn't want to give anything up but a friend we were visiting makes a great Cheesecake so I tried a bit. Before that, I think my last piece of cake was at my nieces wedding a year ago last May. I'm not a big sweets eater but I had to jump in here for the food demonizing and shaming on general principles.

      Now, if someone want to start ice cream shaming, we gonna have a little problem here......
    • Posts: 958 Member
      Carlos_421 wrote: »
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      But who posts daily (or even weekly) pictures of cake? I'm not friends with anyone like that.
      Maybe a professional cake decorator posts daily pictures of their creations?
      Otherwise...I don't know how realistic it is to ponder on what daily cake talk says about our culture if there is no daily cake talk...

      Some of my buddies and I post up weekly pictures of what we have on our grill. Quite possibly those "cake people" <shudder, cake, bleech> post up, but you're not in their "society".
    • Posts: 5,283 Member
      Carlos_421 wrote: »
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      Yesterday is not every day. I neither think nor talk about cake every day or even most days.
      I'm not sure I've ever posted a picture of cake...except the meat cake I served my dog for his birthday...put that one on the internet (it had peanut butter for icing and he sat nicely waiting while we sang to him).

      I admit I'm thinking about cake right now, but that's because I just slid a honey-apple cake into the oven for the Jewish New Year. P.S. It's only 140 calories per serving (1/12th of an 8x8 pan). See... I do bake every week, but my goal is to find desserts that come in at under 200 calories/serving and don't taste like I just spread sugar-free jam on a rice cake. (No offense to those of you for whom that's a favorite treat. It's not one of mine.)
    • Posts: 15,532 Member
      edited September 2017
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    • Posts: 1,025 Member
      jdlobb wrote: »
      I absolutely resent my parents for letting me get overweight, eat poorly, and be lazy when I was a kid. I still love them of course, but I'd be a fool not to acknowledge the years of damage they let me do to my body and all of the ways that my poor childhood habits held me back as a young adult.

      This. It's hard to admit, but yeah. At least it's helped show me one kind of parent I don't want to be.
    • Posts: 13,575 Member
      lemurcat12 wrote: »
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      It's kind of boring to post photos of your every day food, IMO. Especially since there is no need to illustrate to other posters what an "omelet" is.

      Obviously not everyone feels this way. There is a thread in the Recipes section asking for pics of everyday food. It has over 15k replies.
    • Posts: 1,025 Member
      sijomial wrote: »
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      But it can be the perfect food for someone eating a high calorie nutritional diet.

      My favourite cycle ride of the year is hosted by three cycling clubs who provide food and drink along the way.
      About the ninety mile mark you arrive at the beautiful village of Chiddingfold where the cricket clubhouse is used to host the afternoon stop. The smell of homemade cakes hitting you as you walk in the door is amazing.

      Homemade scone with clotted cream and jam, plus a rock cake washed down with a couple of cups of tea is the perfect pick me up and fuel for the last 40 miles.

      Three cereal bars (salted caramel flavour - yum!) and 3 Soreen (individual) malt loaves also eaten along the way.

      621g of carbs, 185g of protein and 129g of fat that day. A substantial calorie deficit too.

      Context is important.....

      Which ride is this? I'm only in Berkshire and need a ride to work up to. I've done one through the Surrey hills (Palace to Palace, 45 miles) so I'll need to build to this, but sounds wonderful!

      And very good point re: context. A good reminder.
    • Posts: 13,575 Member
      katsheare wrote: »
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      This. It's hard to admit, but yeah. At least it's helped show me one kind of parent I don't want to be.

      Yeah, it breaks my heart how many of my friends and relatives feed their children to obesity. More and more often it seems the norm around here. I just want to shake them and scream "Can't you see what you are doing to your children?!" I don't, of course.
    • Posts: 1,639 Member
      estherdragonbat wrote: »
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      I admit I'm thinking about cake right now, but that's because I just slid a honey-apple cake into the oven for the Jewish New Year. P.S. It's only 140 calories per serving (1/12th of an 8x8 pan). See... I do bake every week, but my goal is to find desserts that come in at under 200 calories/serving and don't taste like I just spread sugar-free jam on a rice cake. (No offense to those of you for whom that's a favorite treat. It's not one of mine.)

      NOW we are getting into some cake culture--that sounds delicious! Best wishes for a sweet new year!
    • Posts: 6,771 Member
      katsheare wrote: »
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      Which ride is this? I'm only in Berkshire and need a ride to work up to. I've done one through the Surrey hills (Palace to Palace, 45 miles) so I'll need to build to this, but sounds wonderful!

      And very good point re: context. A good reminder.

      Crystal Palace? So you're one of the lycra clad cyclists I'm trying not to mow down every weekend? (I live in Palace)
    • Posts: 19,809 Member
      edited September 2017
      katsheare wrote: »
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      Which ride is this? I'm only in Berkshire and need a ride to work up to. I've done one through the Surrey hills (Palace to Palace, 45 miles) so I'll need to build to this, but sounds wonderful!

      And very good point re: context. A good reminder.
      @katsheare
      It's the Ditchling Devil Audax event - stunning scenery.

      Starts from Wimbledon Common, heads down to Brighton via Turner's Hill & Ditchling Beacon, up and over Devil's *kitten*, back through the Surrey Hills AONB and normally ends up in Richmond Park. This year it ended in a pub instead. What a shame! :)
      Friendly atmosphere and lives up to the description of Audax events as being "eating competitions held in beautiful countryside".

      http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/17-888/

      I'm in Surrey so the start and finish is local for me.

      (Hah! The dumb profanity filter doesn't like the word that starts with D and ends with yke! It's a place name folks not an unpleasant slang term.....)
    • Posts: 5,283 Member
      French_Peasant wrote: »
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      NOW we are getting into some cake culture--that sounds delicious! Best wishes for a sweet new year!

      Thank you kindly!
    • Posts: 958 Member
      stevencloser wrote: »
      In Germany we got "Kaffee und Kuchen" time between lunch and dinner, around 4 or so. It's coffee and cake.

      I'd be in heaven if it was "Hefeweizen und Brätwurst".
      Maybe I need to start a culture shift for that very thing B)

    • Posts: 8,934 Member
      edited September 2017
      AnnPT77 wrote: »
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      Or one if those nice pumpkin spice roll-up cakes with the cream cheese filling, homemade, of course: Ya got yer veggie, yer protein, yer fats, yer carbs . . . also spice, so everything nice. Yup,like pizza. Which is technically pie, so we should have one for dessert after the nutritious pumpkin cheese roll thingie.

      Oh man! Yer killing me here!!
    • Posts: 237 Member
      VintageFeline wrote: »
      *Raises hand timidly

      Can I just check that nobody is contaminating these carrot cakes with walnuts?

      Or coconut.
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