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There's a very fine line between the differences of a brownie and a piece of cake.
But both have their own traditions.
Here are the facts:
Brownies have traditionally been eaten using the hands as the primary utensil.
Cake has traditionally been eaten using a fork acting as both a slicing tool and a serving tool.
If one eats a Brownie with a fork, it is seen as an oddity.
If one eats a slice of Cake with their hands, it is seen as an oddity.
Then you throw the cupcake into the mix.
The cupcake is the portable cake.
It has a wrapper --> this is key.
The wrapper acts as divider between dessert-hand contact.
But where does the line get drawn between cake and cupcake?
Is it the shape?
If one were to take all the cupcakes out of their wrappers and put them in a cake pan, the public would be faced with a dilemma.
Do we treat these as cupcakes or slices of cake?
Hands or forks?
2 comments:
in this matter, size is everything.
except for maybe a world record sized cupcake, cupcakes are "bite (one or two) sized" and cake are like 80-100 bites-sized.
this should be Wikipedia'd.
What about brownies and vanilla ice cream? I see that as an exception to the brownie/hands rule.
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