Comments on: Eat your cake and have it, too.

By: jeg

jeg — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:02:54 +0000

Lemon Square cheese cupcakes are yummy. Im actually toying with the idea of using them as crust for a dessert instead of the usual graham-cracker-and-butter I use. Maybe for a cheesecake. (Cheesecake with a cheese cupcake crust. Yes, there is no off position on the genius switch.) Im inviting you guys to try it, too. Just dont forget where you heard the idea first. Thank you. :-)

(Are you like me? Do you also feel guilty about pronouncing graham correctly instead of pronouncing it gray-ham?)

By: Maikeru76

Maikeru76 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:00:12 +0000

Cake for the lower rung of our society, myself included, are those “Twinky”-wannabees (Lemon Square company, potential endorser alert!!) that are common place at your nearest sari-sari store.

They might not taste as good as the “commercial” bakery bring-home goodies, but these “wannabe Twinkies” surely makes us in the “lower caste” have a taste a bit of the cakes the “upper rung” eat AND makes us aspire for more expensive and more mouth-watering fare; cakes that you see being eaten by movie stars on the silver screen (or 30″ LCD TV, by the way, courtesy of our OFW neighbor.)

I can have my mini-cake (Inipit or what have you) AND eat it, and I LOVE it!

P.S.: If the Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, had these mini-cakes, he might have chosen baking as his profession ;)

By: Constance

Constance — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:56:01 +0000

Some of the middle class bake their own cake. But they let you know very loudly that their ingredients are not ordinary chocolates or cheap butter, and don’t try to pass your cake off as special, they can tell the difference. They also let you know that they’ve spend the whole day baking the thing because it’s not easy to make moist, soft cakes. You never get to taste them though. You’re poor. You can’t return the favor.

Then true to any culture or income bracket, you celebrate certain events. You the miserable lower class try to share your food to your kind. The middle class would then come down from their high places to try to mingle with your celebrations. They just pick at your food. Then they make all sorts of comments: “you should have used mozzarella on your lasagna! or “where are the meat in the pancit?”

By: volume-addict

volume-addict — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:38:18 +0000

Nowadays, I don’t think “real” rich people even buy things. Things are given to them gratis. Look at all those gift baskets they hand out at televised award shows.

By: jeg

jeg — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:31:20 +0000

The middle class is the most insecure of all the classes. I think the entire fashion industry is dependent upon the insecurity of the middle class.

And while we’re on the subject of misquotes, did Marie Antoinette really say, ‘Let them eat cake?’ And if she did, is ‘cake’ an accurate translation? Maybe she said something like, ‘Walang tinapay? Pakainin nyo sila ng puto’.

By: eilish

eilish — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:11:24 +0000

You know I never understood that expression “have your cake and eat it too.”

Of course you will eat the cake once you have it otherwise there’s no point of it falling under your list of possessions. So far I don’t know of anyone who would go through all that effort to obtain the pastry and then put it on display until it decomposes.

Very strange idiom.