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In high school I worked banquets for a major hotel chain - mainly setting up for weddings receptions and conferences. I only saw a handful of real tiered cakes in the hundred or so I worked.

What was more normal to see was a real and very well made top tier. This was for the cake cutting pictures and for the bride and groom. The remaining 5-6 tiers were identically decorated styrofoam.

After the cake ceremony, we wheeled the rest into the back, tossed it in a closet for the caterer to pick up, and served sheet cake.

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My mother has been a florist for 40 years and this is totally normal and has been for generations. I don't understand why this article exists. Everything old is new again?

I've seriously never heard of this, and am middle aged and married with kids, and lots of married friends.

A few friends had 2-3 tiered cakes, but they were always real cakes, just quite boring internally (plain vanilla sponge). At most, there were posts through the middle to round pieces of cardboard/wood/something in between the layers for support, for one wedding I went to. Most others were just big elaborate "normal" cakes.

I always assumed the crazy big American wedding cakes on TV were at least mostly real, maybe with supports and levels to structure it.

It's sort of a profile of a local business.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

I've been at some weddings in Poland, and I never knew. Now I wonder whether we don't do that here, or it was me who was just not paying attention.

I suppose this article exists because other people are surprised too.

There are places on this planet where not everything is a cheap Simulacrum.

I can't say I'm surprised learning about a new one from the USA Theme Park though.

Sadly this doesn’t surpise me and paints perfectly into the bigger picture of today’s america - home of deception.

that oriental Chineese soup is made by third generation americans that look like asians but never been to or heard a single chinese word. They got ingredients from local Cali’s market.

That CVS 100% natural aloe vera? It doesnt have any traces of real alovera at all!

Crab meat? I dint think so; its all immitation made from eatable sponge.

That naural honey? Its all high fructose corn syroupe.

The list go on and on ;( so sad that we as a society in whole accept this state of affairs ;(

I never got the why Asian Americans are so adamant about exclaiming the superiority of authentic Asian food. We get it: American Chinese food is not the same.

I think you may want to re-evaluate your cynicism. If you read the article they mention that baked tiered cakes for weddings are stale and mostly ineadible. I can believe this. I have baked a few layer cakes and anything more than a few thin layers (enough to make a good topper) is a serious challenge. This is pragmatism and guest enjoyment over deception.

I’d take the fresh sheet cake over a week old repeatedly frozen and thawed cake.

> baked tiered cakes for weddings are stale

Here's a radical idea then: let's stop deceiving guests they are eating such a cake.

Or, just eat the cake and move on with your life.

The cake is a lie. I can't eat it, that's the point.

> that oriental Chineese soup is made by third generation americans that look like asians but never been to or heard a single chinese word. They got ingredients from local Cali’s market.

So long as they enjoy the soup, why does anything else matters?

> that oriental Chineese soup is made by third generation americans that look like asians

Huh, okay, this is a genuinely new kind of racism to me.

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