Just as my daily 4pm sugar craving started to set in, I heard pandemonium coming from the common area of my workplace. Since sugary snacks are a staple at any celebration, I naturally put work on hold to investigate.
I delightfully discovered a group of people gathered in a semi-circle, eating cake. After carefully assessing the group, I decided I knew enough of the attendees to insert myself into the celebration. I smiled, nodded, and made a few clever remarks as I navigated my way through the crowd toward the cake. When I finally reached my destination, I looked down at the cake and noticed it was a “Goodbye, We’ll miss you” cake. In my experience goodbye cake is never as good as birthday cake, but still worth eating in my opinion. At second glance I noticed a large piece pre-cut just for me. (You can see it in the above photo.) Yes, it was a strange shape, but cutting a new piece would draw too much attention. And, not knowing who I was supposed to be saying goodbye to, I happily took the weird jagged piece and quickly made my way back through the crowd toward my desk.
Now, I know a Ralph’s cake when I see one, and because I find supermarket cakes less-than-super, I typically shy away from them, especially the kind with the mystery jelly inside. But the cake was chocolate/chocolate and jelly-free, so I expected something fairly decent.
I was 100% accurate in my expectations. The cake was “fairly decent”. The frosting was light and tasted authentically fake, just as I expected. And the cake was juuust moist enough to continue eating bite after bite. I have to admit, some chocolate milk would have really set this thing off, but all in all, I deem it “fairly decent” which constitutes 2.5 out of 5 plastic forks.
*edit - After having a sugar crash strong enough to make me want to kick a puppy, I am Reducing this evil cake .5 plastic forks, taking it to a final rating of 2 out of 5 plastic forks.
