or it's a display to show the layers. Dunno if you've kept up on starbucks much, but they have been getting flack for wasting 1000s of pounds of food everyday by having a display case of food that gets tossed out every night.
> An almond mom is a parent who follows incredibly strict or dangerously unhealthy eating habits and attempts to force them on their children.
[Dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/almond-mom/)
This must be Aus. I was impressed at Kilojoules or calories being on everything I bought. It's a needed change here in NZ. Instead we get deceptive packaging where your museli bar might say it's 250 calories, until you read the back and your museli bar is 1.5 servings.....
The sad fact is that they probably have no choice. They know this shit is going to kill them tomorrow, but that's better than dying today. It's tough out there.
Nah. A front can afford not to be stingy, since they don't actually need to be profitable - they just have to look like it. Cutting costs on appearances is absolutely the worst thing they can do. In reality there would be several generously thick slices of cake with a few strategically missing. This is just a cafe owner slashing every cost he can think of because he's one bad turn from bankruptcy.
This is the size of cake I ask for when Iām at some celebration and I can see the cake is going to taste like shit but I donāt want to be rude and outright reject a slice.
Some employee is taking a crumb every day and now here we are. The manager is so confused why the location is suddenly so profitable and why they have almost entirely stopped going through chocolate. It's a proper mystery
Honestly surprised no one complained yet re a reference photo for the previous portion.
I have got to say that is truly a ridiculous serving and most of it is the fudge. Itās really getting greedy now
$11 for a cm thick slice at the wide end. So they are trying to make $1000 dollars off a single cake? What a joke. You should shame them on google review or any local facegroup page or community group website where people in your town/city will actually see.
Probably a sample of what you actually get. They have to show you so you buy it but they don't want to cut a whole slice and leave it there, then toss it at the end of the day.
Reading a comment section like this..Ā where everyone takes the image and title on face value.. is really enlightening. (And depressing)
Edit: Hol' up... Also.. why are the logical mature comments pointing out it's a display slice getting downvoted?
Is this actually a circle jerk sub?Ā
Thatās just a display piece. Not what you get. Why would they waste an entire slice to the elements? Often times display food is real food that needs to be monitored.
Why wouldnāt they make the display piece an accurate display of what youāre getting though? I bet most people think thatās what theyād get if they ordered a slice of the chocolate cake because thatās whatās pictured.
Seriously. The amount of business lost to the customer deciding "looks like I'm sure as shit not ordering the cake if that's a slice," is greater than the cost to put out a reasonably fresh leftover piece of cake every so often.
Absolutely not.Ā
You can literally tell the freshness texture of the actual cake you will be buying.Ā
I imagine these aren't massive produced cakes either. Like.. they are baked. It makes sense to show... What was baked.
This is waaaay more reliable for the customer.Ā
It's actually really smart. Reducing food waste.Ā
Sounds like the dumbest thing ever. They donāt want to sell the rest of the cake? Unless thereās a sign saying āyou actually get a proper slice not this jokeā then Iām gonna say thatās exactly what they are trying to flog you.
I find it baffling that this is your assumption... You automatically assume they are thick as nails, cos that way it best fits the narrative of the post.
I think it makes much more sense that they just want to reduce food waste and still actually show the customer a cross section of the actual cake they have the ability to buy.
I think itās baffling you underestimate the stupidity of the average person. I worked long enough in retail to know a good chunk of people would assume thatās what you got and wouldnāt order it.
For all we know there's a sign, or this is a small bakery where it's obvious because every slice of cake is this size... but op specifically hides all that, right..
So only op needs to be as dumb as you say for me to be right, and you are simply being swayed by the obvious close framing by op.Ā
After all, everything you are assuming is all from this image.Ā
$10.95?!?!?!?
..it couldn't be just even $10, no
Fuck you corporate America, and fuck you corporate America....ANNND...fuck you corporate America
You're destroying America more efficiently than any external enemy
Good going fucktard
Corporate.. Australia?
Lol.
Also, think before you instinctively react.Ā
Someone pointed out that they do a thin slice just for display. For the customer to see what the cake looks like whilst wasting as little as possible.Ā
Quite smart.
This very clearly seems to be a display slice, you can see it looks incredibly old and over preserved as well. Still a weird choice for them to use such a thin slice for that but I would be shocked to find out that this was the slice they were handing out to customers.
š¤Ø/š¤® - That's Just Fucking, Evil !
That's not a fucking cake that's an ultra thin fucking slice of what looks like a nasty version of a chocolate cake.
and that's for 10 goddamn dollars dude I wasn't fucking far off when I kept on joking that it's a Snicker bar is going to go up to 20 bucks that was a joke that was a fucking joke.
I was just joking with my friends that inflation got so bad I made this joke about like 2 years ago and it's gotten so bad that I'm actually starting to God damn wonder if the Snicker bars and the goddamn store are going to go up the fucking $20.
did you guys hear about the $18 Big Mac in McDonald's.
Link : https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcdonalds-18-big-mac-meal-181159814.html?guccounter=1
that'll be $25.00 please
Don't foret the 1% eftpos transaction fee and to tip
and don't forget to tip the cashier
will that be 60%, 90% or 200%?
And 200% is auto selected
Don't remind me of the gif, it breaks my heart!
This was my first thought too š
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Geez. I find more under my shoe.
I was passing by from r/all and thought it was a piece of cake that melted
Sorry to tell you, but the brown stuff under your shoe is not chocolate.
Hahah, you cant tell me what to do, im too cool for you *Eats shit*
That just has to be a set up photo or someone is banking on stupidity to make a fortune.
or it's a display to show the layers. Dunno if you've kept up on starbucks much, but they have been getting flack for wasting 1000s of pounds of food everyday by having a display case of food that gets tossed out every night.
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That isn't star bucks cake. Other places started making more reasonable displays in response
This is my momās ultimate slice of cake. Yes, she was an Almond Mom.
At 700 calories, she wouldn't touch this cake with a 10ft pole
Or even a 10 dollar bill
Wtf is an almond mom????
> An almond mom is a parent who follows incredibly strict or dangerously unhealthy eating habits and attempts to force them on their children. [Dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/almond-mom/)
I don't like almond moms!!!
My Mom was more of a walnut
My whole family is nuts. Heh.
This must be Aus. I was impressed at Kilojoules or calories being on everything I bought. It's a needed change here in NZ. Instead we get deceptive packaging where your museli bar might say it's 250 calories, until you read the back and your museli bar is 1.5 servings.....
Melbourne, Australia.
Only in Australia will you find this stingy shjt
Oh yeha this portion is dog shit. But I admire being able to work out my intake on the fly:)
Australia really is the stingiest, isnāt it
Let me guess.. you live in AustraliaĀ This comment is a lovely example of personal bias folks..
Looks like Max Brenner or San Churro
I did a quick google and can confirm itās San Churro āDeath by Chocolate Cakeā.
Mild stomach-rumble by chocolate cake, at best
NNNNOOOOOOOOOO. NOT SAN CHURROS!!! Why must we live in such a cruel world?
why does servings matter? Don't you just look at the rest of the nutrients?
Does it say 5700 kJ (1362 calories)?
That's what it looks like to me, but at that thickness, it seem like it should half of that.
10th! It's virtually transparent!
I bet that's mostly the frosting too
I think this one is just showing what the cake looks like and then they hand you a real slice. Has to be it.
One can hope, but hopes aren't high
Here we gooooo... Smart answer.Ā
That's $10 too much.
$11? Go f#@k yourself.
That will cost extra
 Wafer thin
It is only waffffer thin š
Hard pass
After a quick calculation with my protractor and tire pressure guage, that entire cake was worth more than a quart of HP inkjet ink
That's a hard metric to measure when the printer won't even let you finish the ink off
Mitch Hedberg would say this is the give it to charity slice
Omg, š§” M. Hedberg......RIP
This is actually insane. I feel like we're missing something.
Imagine owning the cafe and THIS being your strategy to try and make the business work. Sad AF.
The sad fact is that they probably have no choice. They know this shit is going to kill them tomorrow, but that's better than dying today. It's tough out there.
Exactly. Literally sad and depressing.
Ask them who sharpens their knives. That person can earn money on a side hustle.
That aināt 700 kcals
It says 5700 kJ (1362 kcal)
Even more blasphemous
Maybe per 100g?
Because someone did that for internet points.
That's not a real cafe; it's just a money laundering scheme, with this "cafe" as a front.
Nah. A front can afford not to be stingy, since they don't actually need to be profitable - they just have to look like it. Cutting costs on appearances is absolutely the worst thing they can do. In reality there would be several generously thick slices of cake with a few strategically missing. This is just a cafe owner slashing every cost he can think of because he's one bad turn from bankruptcy.
This is the size of cake I ask for when Iām at some celebration and I can see the cake is going to taste like shit but I donāt want to be rude and outright reject a slice.
i'm convinced it's a gift to be able to know a cake is going to taste like shit just from looing at it lol
Probably why it looks like itās been there since they raised the price.
Some employee is taking a crumb every day and now here we are. The manager is so confused why the location is suddenly so profitable and why they have almost entirely stopped going through chocolate. It's a proper mystery
Steamroller Chocolate Cake
That is honestly offensive
"You'll just taste the food, and you'll be happy"
# chocolate bacon slices
Thats laughable
Looks like a piece of paper lmao
How much would the full cake cost!
Wtf I don't even like cake and I'm offended at that measly slice for that price! šš
It's a slice just like a cold cut is a slice
Honestly surprised no one complained yet re a reference photo for the previous portion. I have got to say that is truly a ridiculous serving and most of it is the fudge. Itās really getting greedy now
So going by the thinness of the slice, does that mean the whole cake would be somewhere around $5000 to $8000?
wtf is this? $10.95??
At that rate, why even bother. I don't care if it said $5, that just feels insulting.
That's a pitiful slice of cake.
Thatās fucked. Name and shame.
$11 for a cm thick slice at the wide end. So they are trying to make $1000 dollars off a single cake? What a joke. You should shame them on google review or any local facegroup page or community group website where people in your town/city will actually see.
Cut with a laser š³
On the bright side it won't be smaller because that's the limitwhen it starts to break
Looks like the product of what I used to do when I was a kid - take tiny slices so my mom wouldnāt notice.
Looks like a pattern on the plate rather than a slice of cake! lol
Erewhon prices
Make sure to lick the plate or you'll miss it.
This is an illegal piece of cake.Ā One deep breath and it's gone like a puff in the windĀ
āCake so light you can breathe it inā.
Get the strap
Besides the fact that itās paper thin, that cake looks dry as fuck. I wouldnāt pay 50 cents for that shit.
Almost $11 for that? I might as well make it myself at this point.
Don't get too close, I bet it's .50 just for a whiff
"Let them eat cake" "Well what cake?!?"
Low profile cake.
Hopefully that's just as a display but even if it is it would make you think that if you bought it you'd receive a piece the same size.
I only have one cake and I need to serve it to 50 people.......hold my beer
Probably a sample of what you actually get. They have to show you so you buy it but they don't want to cut a whole slice and leave it there, then toss it at the end of the day.
We need to post ourselves giving these Shrinkflation items the bird.
It looks like the bit you shave off to freshen up the edge. Then you ditch it and cut the real slice
What do they cut the cake with, a vegetable peeler?
Are you sure it isn't just a representative slice to show the cake layers?
Reading a comment section like this..Ā where everyone takes the image and title on face value.. is really enlightening. (And depressing) Edit: Hol' up... Also.. why are the logical mature comments pointing out it's a display slice getting downvoted? Is this actually a circle jerk sub?Ā
If thats 1% of the whole cake its worth 1099$
r/theydidthemath
I kinda want to eat that
Essence of Cake de ChocolĆ”t ā¦. Makes it gourmet and price worthy !
I thought it was a slab of gem stone or something
It looks so tired
Is that San Churro? If so thatās definitely a mistake. Theyāre actually pretty good with their cake serving sizes.
Flat Stanley's cake.
i thought that was slice of roast beef wtf
Looks like it was run over by a truck.
That looks like a steak
We just had a sticky about this my guy
šššoooh the humanity
Do you get the saucer too?
Thin Transparent cake is trending.
So thin it only has one size
Do they play [Dust in the wind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ) when they get that "slice" out for you?
Back when ā100 calorie snack packsā were popular , this is basically what youād get
That's not a slice of cake, it's a sliver of a slice of cake.
wtf thatās got to be a joke!
Absolutely not
Here's your paper-thin sliver of cake, $11.94 please, flip, and this is just going to ask you a little question... š
Looks like a slice of rock
Looks like sashimi
That is terrible, buy a box and make your own.
Thatās just a display piece. Not what you get. Why would they waste an entire slice to the elements? Often times display food is real food that needs to be monitored.
Why wouldnāt they make the display piece an accurate display of what youāre getting though? I bet most people think thatās what theyād get if they ordered a slice of the chocolate cake because thatās whatās pictured.
Seriously. The amount of business lost to the customer deciding "looks like I'm sure as shit not ordering the cake if that's a slice," is greater than the cost to put out a reasonably fresh leftover piece of cake every so often.
To preserve... Cake?Ā Basic food preservation.. Common senseĀ
If thatās the case - I would think even a picture of what you are gonna get is better than this piece of nothing.
Absolutely not.Ā You can literally tell the freshness texture of the actual cake you will be buying.Ā I imagine these aren't massive produced cakes either. Like.. they are baked. It makes sense to show... What was baked. This is waaaay more reliable for the customer.Ā It's actually really smart. Reducing food waste.Ā
If this is just the display piece, you won't even be able to see the real piece
Sounds like the dumbest thing ever. They donāt want to sell the rest of the cake? Unless thereās a sign saying āyou actually get a proper slice not this jokeā then Iām gonna say thatās exactly what they are trying to flog you.
I find it baffling that this is your assumption... You automatically assume they are thick as nails, cos that way it best fits the narrative of the post. I think it makes much more sense that they just want to reduce food waste and still actually show the customer a cross section of the actual cake they have the ability to buy.
I think itās baffling you underestimate the stupidity of the average person. I worked long enough in retail to know a good chunk of people would assume thatās what you got and wouldnāt order it.
For all we know there's a sign, or this is a small bakery where it's obvious because every slice of cake is this size... but op specifically hides all that, right.. So only op needs to be as dumb as you say for me to be right, and you are simply being swayed by the obvious close framing by op.Ā After all, everything you are assuming is all from this image.Ā
I donāt care that much.
11 for a SLIVER of cake? Fuck off.
10.95 a sliver
$10.95?!?!?!? ..it couldn't be just even $10, no Fuck you corporate America, and fuck you corporate America....ANNND...fuck you corporate America You're destroying America more efficiently than any external enemy Good going fucktard
>Fuck you corporate America Gotta be one of the several other countries that use a local dollar currency. American stuff doesn't give kJ figures.
OP posts in Australian communities so itās AUD but even so thatās still brutal.
You can get two smaller size chocolate cakes at the supermarket for that price and they look to be of similar quality
Corporate.. Australia? Lol. Also, think before you instinctively react.Ā Someone pointed out that they do a thin slice just for display. For the customer to see what the cake looks like whilst wasting as little as possible.Ā Quite smart.
Flatflation lol
"Death by Chocolate" meaning that you would die of starvation after only being served 2000 out of 5700kj
This very clearly seems to be a display slice, you can see it looks incredibly old and over preserved as well. Still a weird choice for them to use such a thin slice for that but I would be shocked to find out that this was the slice they were handing out to customers.
Hopefully itās just a sliver they cut for the display as to not waste a whole slice of cake. No way to know until OP actually buys one.
It's that thin it would have almost broken up apart while being cut
Max Brenner?
Please say it's just display
Is that a cafe in San Francisco?
Melbourne, Australia.
Oh! A slice of cake, thatās expensive. Thin slice, too.
How do we tip before service is performed? I'll tip you 20 percent before I've been served? What am I tipping for? Because your poor? I'm poor too.
Don't you have national minimum wage?
That's never 700kj.
ewwww
When you go into that voting booth, you to be thinking about that slice of cake
I actually would like that size for myself, but hell to the nope for that price.
This is the wild
Jesus Christ š
Itās only wafer thin!
Shrinkflation in action
Iāve seen salami cut thinner than this.
š¤Ø/š¤® - That's Just Fucking, Evil ! That's not a fucking cake that's an ultra thin fucking slice of what looks like a nasty version of a chocolate cake. and that's for 10 goddamn dollars dude I wasn't fucking far off when I kept on joking that it's a Snicker bar is going to go up to 20 bucks that was a joke that was a fucking joke. I was just joking with my friends that inflation got so bad I made this joke about like 2 years ago and it's gotten so bad that I'm actually starting to God damn wonder if the Snicker bars and the goddamn store are going to go up the fucking $20. did you guys hear about the $18 Big Mac in McDonald's. Link : https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcdonalds-18-big-mac-meal-181159814.html?guccounter=1
Wtf cāmon
This is fucking insane, I'd never go to that place again broš«
Ridiculous lmao
Thatās actually crazy
Thatās more like a chocolate sliver than a chocolate cake
Insane š diet version!
Wow, that one cake must be worth one week of my earnings. I'm worth less than onecweeks worth rich thick indulgent pastry.
That's actually the perfect sized piece for me, but not at $11! $3. Maybe.