The Great Cake Debate

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So last night J and I popped round to see the Moores for "tea and cake". Amonst many pleasant discussions, we got involved in a rather protracted argument about the nature of cake. For Dave had gone out and bought a cheesecake, a fact which both Tamsin and I were a little confused about, since we would classify it as a dessert, and would expect something more traditional like a Victoria sponge, if we were having tea and cake.[Poll #1598802]

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the criteria I was working on was "can I dip this in my tea if I so choose?". if the answer was yes, then it was ok, if the answer was no, it wasn't.

One of my colleagues used the classification of "if you'd find it on the dessert menu of a restaurant, then it's not tea-and-cake cake, it's a dessert" which precludes choc fudge cake, cheesecake etc but not the rest of the cakes, just as you've said.