13th July 2016, 11:55 AM
Cookie, icecream, and various other snack makers of the world, listen up.
There is no such thing as "birthday cake" flavor! There's nothing special about cakes on a birthday that cakes at any other time don't already have, and the cake someone gets on their birthday, traditionally, is WHATEVER THEIR FAVORITE FLAVOR IS! There is no absolute standard of what "Birthday Cake" is!
You COULD have just said "cake flavored". It would still be pretty nonspecific, but no, you had to go and invent the concept of "birthday cake" as a flavor. The only thing I can figure is some idiot in marketing said "people like birthdays, so we should call it birthday cake to associate the flavor with something people like".
This has been another random rant on something that doesn't matter.
There is no such thing as "birthday cake" flavor! There's nothing special about cakes on a birthday that cakes at any other time don't already have, and the cake someone gets on their birthday, traditionally, is WHATEVER THEIR FAVORITE FLAVOR IS! There is no absolute standard of what "Birthday Cake" is!
You COULD have just said "cake flavored". It would still be pretty nonspecific, but no, you had to go and invent the concept of "birthday cake" as a flavor. The only thing I can figure is some idiot in marketing said "people like birthdays, so we should call it birthday cake to associate the flavor with something people like".
This has been another random rant on something that doesn't matter.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)