At last a cake we can all dig into
I was clicking through a blog about cake disasters that have befallen professional cooks, when I came across a post about the cake above. The post is titled: “Cake” Cruelty. Seems the cake is actually made of meat, and the blogger isn’t happy about it. Writes she:
Once sliced, you will note that these “cakes” are not cakes at all. Instead, they are layers of various meat and mayo-based salads, bread, and then – here’s the worst part – “iced” with cream cheese. Note how the creators of these twisted impostors then push the deception even further by decorating the “cakes” with little roses, vines, and piped borders.
I ask you, fellow carb-lovers, are we to allow such cake defamation to stand? Will we sit idly by while our children and grandchildren are subjected to cakes that are not cakes? And if so, what next? Liverwurst doughnuts? Tuna-filled eclairs? Meat pies? (Oh, wait…)
Nay, I say, nay! We shall rise up, and as one declare that our butter cream icing must remain unsullied, our baked goods pure in sugar. Join me, and together we can make our world a place of fat, sugar, and dairy-based products for all!
I suppose it would be a nasty surprise for a carbaholic lusting for a sugar rush to fork down a big bite of one of these. But for us low-carbers, it would make a great treat.
To get some insight into the minds of carbophiles everywhere, take a look through the many comments. It’s easy to see why there is an obesity epidemic.
Maybe it comes from living in SoCal too long, but “meatcake” sounds almost obscene. But not as obscene as the comments on that blog, obviously made by many (addicted and obese) Sugar Sheep.
I have made the meat cake that Tresses and mrfreddy linked to. I used mashed cauliflower as frosting (the cauliflower also contained some turnips, garlic, Gruyere, butter, etc). It’s a fun cake to make for dinner. The kids actually love it once they get over the initial disappointment.
It’s a great trick to play on kids.
Another thing I make for the kids are “meatheads”. You can really get creative with meatheads, using olives for eyes, spaghetti squash for hair, red pepper for lips, etc.
I agree, “it’s easy to see why there is an obesity epidemic”. People think it’s normal to eat sugary cake and abnormal to eat one made of meat. Numerous posters stated the same thought as this one: “Sorry, but there is just something so inherently Wrong with this!” Actually, what is wrong is that our whole society thinks it’s totally normal to eat huge amounts of sweets in our diets and that anyone who doesn’t is abnormal and wrong.
One commenter posted this link to spaghetti made with meat. Now, this is something I’d be interested in: http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/1985924
I would be interested, too. Thanks for the link.
Yeah, eating a piece of cake will kill you. Nobody who eats real cake could possibly ever be healthy. The only way to way to maintain a normal weight is to stuff your face with eggs and bacon every morning… blah, blah blah
Hi Alison–
Welcome to the blog. I’m glad to see that you truly understand proper nutrition.
Cheers–
MRE
Bob Blumer is a chef that specializes in these ‘not what they seem’ types of recipes. I saw him on TV making lamb cupcakes so I looked him up on the web. Check out the pictures of ‘duck parfait’, ‘meatloaf surprise’ and ‘cheese cake’. The bacon and eggs consists of vanilla ice cream, an apricot half, raspberry sauce and white and dark chocolate.
I think you have to buy his book to get the recipes though……..
http://www.bobblumer.com/sgdishes.html
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
Cheers–
MRE
Here’s a headline from our local newspaper’s business section – “Study: Statins don’t boost cancer risk.” According to researchers at Tufts Medical Center, although low LDL does correlate with a higher cancer risk, it appears that statins do not increase that risk. In this study, there were 12.7 cancers for each 1,000 patients given statins and 12.6 per 1,000 in the group not given the drugs. (The full study can be found in the Journal of the Am. College of Cardiology.)
How long is it going to take for the medical community to recognize that low LDL is dangerous? Of course, that challenges their notions about the lipid hypothesis, doesn’t it? Sort of sounds like more cognitive dissonance……
Sounds like a lot of cognitive dissonance.
I say let them have their cake and eat it too! I am happy with out it.
I think the disgust factor comes from the cake being something it is not. It forces your brain to visually combine two things that shouldn’t be combined: pastry and meat. Most people find the idea of eating a slice of meat with cake disgusting. This forces you to overlap those images in your mind, thus it is disgusting.
It would be like if it were shaped like dog feces, but “relax, it’s just meat”. Uh, no thanks.
If the cake didn’t look so “sweet” with candy-looking flowers and all, it would be far less disgusting. If it were decorated with ham slices and olives and things like that, it would be totally different. I am a die hard low carber and carnivore and I agree the cake is repulsive to me.
In a store I once saw a candy hamburger made of marshmellow and other things. That too was very disgusting, as my brain imagined the empty lead-headed sugar-gorging sweetness of halloween from childhood, because the “food” forced me to imagine eating candy in the way one should eat a hearty healthy meal like a hamburger.
(Although the hamburger marshmellow was less disgusting than the meat cake, because the hamburger marshmellow looked fake so I wasn’t forced to imagine eating candy and meat together. On the other hand, the meat cake looks so real, my brain is envisioning ice cream and strawberries and whipped frosting… then to combine that image with meat loaf is just nasty).
Besides, I think the human brain is automatically wired to reject anything remotely disgusting & meat related, too; people are much more sensitive to disgusting meat things than disgusting non-meat things, evolutionary reasons for that are obvious (meat, if slightly off, can be rapidly fatal). If we view cake + meat is disgusting, then it is absolutely disgusting by this rule.
Sorry but the thought of eating that makes me want to gag. I’ll take a day of IFing after binging on the real thing, thank you!