actuallyclintbarton:

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replied to your photo “Dear UK tumblr: WHY THE SHIT ARE THESE BRITS EATING CAKE WITH THEIR…”

Australians do this too? I think it’s because we don’t generally cover our cake in so much frosting as Americans, so it’s more like eating a muffin or a doughnut and less like eating something with the consistency of melting ice cream with a small amount of baked good inside with our fingers.

I actually wasn’t even thinking about the frosting, more that cake is soft and moist and crumbly and what kind of dense monstrosity are y’all eating that you can just pick up a slice like it’s a muffin?????

Well, I can’t speak for your cake, but ours is pretty nice, so, nice cake? that we can pick up? I mean, obviously something like mudcake is dense and holds together really well, but a victoria sponge sandwich is like the opposite of that, and you can still hold that if you want to. I will also say that it’s kind of rare for a cake to have more than two layers, often it only has one (with no filling), and so it’s more structurally sound than something that is super tall and has three or four or more layers stacked with thick layers of buttercream or ganache or something. I’m not saying eating a cake off a plate with a fork or a spoon is unheard of, but often, at a birthday party, someone will just cut you a slice and you’ll eat it with your hands from a paper napkin, and somehow we survive with only about as much dessert carnage as any other nationality.