"Birthday Cake" flavor...

[A Black Falcon]

I presume the generic type would be a standard (somewhat flavorless) yellow cake...

I've never been a big cake fan, I prefer pie, particularly blueberry, apple, or strawberry rhubarb, but growing up my favorite cake for my birthday was [homemade] French chocolate cake; it's very rich stuff, and really good. I don't love chocolate either, but it's good in certain forms -- chocolate candy, that kind of cake, and such. Not ice cream, though, I have never liked chocolate ice cream. But anyway, yeah, to me "birthday cake" is not a yellow cake. (Oh, my sister's favorite birthday cake growing up was angel food, I believe.) But that is basically the standard kind of cake, so it makes sense as a default.

Why call these cake-flavored cookies and such "birthday cake" and not "cake" flavor, though? I presume it's just a marketing tool to get more attention since it sounds more interesitng. Plus, people associate cakes with birthdays, so why not?

I've lost a lot of my taste for hyper-sugary treats, and they sometimes make me sick to my stomach.

One thing I absolutely revile is sodas that are sweetened with HFCS, which accounts for about 95% of non-diet sodas. I drink diet when I feel like drinking soda at all (not often, I drink mostly water).

Duno about birthday cake flavoring, but no such flavored item has ever appealed to me.

You can tell the difference between HFCS and sugar, really? I highly doubt I ever could, they seem the same... Regardless though, I definitely agree with reducing sugar intake in whatever form, as the science against added sugar is pretty strong now. However, I don't believe in the "HFCS is particularly terrible" idea; really, I think that people who focus strongly on HFCS are forgetting how bad sugar itself is for you. Yeah, HFCS is bad, but that's mostly just because sugar is! Health-wise the only real difference, I think, is that HFCS might being slightly worse for you thanks to the higher fructose content.

As for soda, I never drank a lot (just maybe one with meals in college), but I stopped drinking soda a few years ago because apparently liquid sugars are the worst kind, and it definitely was a good idea, if that's why I haven't had many cavities since... my teeth are still terrible of course (bad teeth run in the family, and I have fillings in near-every tooth, etc.), but it's been a while now since my last cavity, and I'd guess dropping soda helped there.