New York Strip Clubs: Consumer Confidence
But how bad can things be, really, when we have not one, not two, but three cable TV series about bakers who make extremely complicated and expensive cakes? Ultimate Cake Off, in which “cake artists” compete against one another for a $10,000 prize, soon debuts on TLC, where it will give cake fans a second slice of cathode deliciousness alongside the network’s recent hit, Cake Boss. Meanwhile, the genre’s pioneer, Food Network’s Ace of Cakes, just started its latest season.
Remember the cakes of yesteryear? They came in two flavors: chocolate and yellow. With the exception of weddings and those occasions when strippers needed temporary shelter, nothing too fancy was required — a round, double-layer cake with some frosting and maybe a sloppily scribbled “Happy Birthday!” would suffice. In contrast, the cakes featured on Ace of Cakes and its brethren have moving parts. And their own internal plumbing systems. And they never look anything like a cake.