I am a slut for cheesecake

Unfortunately I need to be gluten free.

Which makes it a $35 cheesecake thats also smaller. Fuck you shoprite, and fuck you gastrointestinal system in my body.

That's way too much for cheesecake, who's your cake guy?

The main ingredient in cheesecake is cream cheese, and you need like 2 lbs (32 oz) for an average cake, so that's immediately like $9 before all other ingredients

Key lime pie is our benchmark, a new brand will appear for $7.99 or something, and then 3 weeks later they hike the price up to $14. I am not eating a $14 key lime pie from Kroger. Fuck right off with that.

It's funny tho how junk food like pies, cakes, and especially CANDY have taken such an inflationary hike - it's definitely got me eating better, and I am kind of glad for it (and we prove yet again that excise taxes work towards public health, these ones were just done for profit instead of funding waterways or clean air or some shit).

My local grocery store's bakeshop sometimes puts up an 8-inch boston cream cake for only $12. I don't know why it's so cheap (a similar sized chocolate cake is $18-$22), but I can't stop myself from buying it when it's available. I can't believe a cake that good costs just $12.

Idk, depends how good it is. In today's market, ≤$2/serving is actually pretty good even for middling handmade baked goods. One slice at a restaurant would be 3 times that, on the low end, the high end could be the whole $17 or more. But also, yeah, no one needs cheesecake lol.

You can freeze leftover cheesecake.

Cake mix is $5.

I remember one time as a young adult eating a cake for dinner, paired with a large beer.

I realized in the midst of my severe tummy ache that perhaps there are reasons why my parents didn't let me do such things 😆

The me with cake in me is a better me than the me without cake in me. There is no suffering from cake.

There really is one for everything huh

Yep, if I really want cake I'll pay the ridiculous price for a single slice. Yes it's expensive, but it's cheaper than buying a whole cake, and I know after that one piece I won't want anymore for a long time.

i just take breaks in my cake eating binge to binge tacos. get enough protein in there and you're fine.

I run often, and unfortunately it's a lot harder to stay thin as I'm pushing 40 than it was when I was pushing 20. And by stay thin I mean stay average.

Kurzgesagt had a good video on exercise that basically talked about how, if you exercise regularly, your body basically doesn't burn the calories the same. If you're a couch potato and then you start to exercise, you will get a benefit, but then there's diminishing returns from continuing to exercise, to the point your body now says "hey, this is my new normal," and essentially burns the same calories whether you're on the couch or exercising. There's a lot more nuance to it in the video.

It seems we're all doomed to just get old.

This is a lie

I actually installed it this week to give it another go, this timing is golden haha

Are you a lab mouse?

or the metabolism

I use the example in the meme a lot. As adults we're in a post-scarcity mindset. If you tell a kid you can eat chocolate ice cream for 3 meals a day and don't do it because you don't want to (because you know you shouldn't), it would blow their minds. You're growing up when you get access to things and stop thinking "if you can" and start thinking "if you should".

option C)

Instead of "I will do such-n-such", they have to say "I will get in my car and do such-n-such"

when i first moved out, i realized i could fry and eat an entire pound of bacon in one night. i found out that just because you can, doesnt mean you should. lmao

Shit, in my fat phases over the years I would eat in the neighborhood of 6000 calories a day (I would be literally gaining a pound a day since that's 3500 calories over my normal daily intake). It's easy to do when you can basically inhale a box of Little Debbie's zebra cakes in one sitting. It never really occurred to me that I was literally risking immediate death from this behavior.

On top of probably tasting better, it's also more fun.

"Eat the icing from the jar" in the style of "let the bodies hit the floor".

The girls that lived across the street from me had an Easy-Bake oven. Even as a kid I knew those little cakes were fucking terrible. I ate them anyway. Thank god for LED lightbulbs.

Yeah! I get baked at home!

My local supermarket has a lot of fresh cake in stock, usually half of the display is 40% off because of the expiration date is "today" or some goof held the box at a silly angle causing a visually ruined cake.

I'll happily snack away on the poor whip cream squashed sugary treat. Especially when it's super cheap.

They said cake; they did not specify good cake.

I'm thinking that I might be making a ridiculously moist chocolate cake in my future. I'm thinking last week of September, I'm sure I could make it for $20 I hope haha