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Jun. 17th, 2021 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI love this column.
The issues are petty and trivial, and the answers rise to the challenge.
Karen writes: My husband, David, hates Bundt cake. I believe he was scarred by grotesque Bundt-shaped 1970s recipes. But he likes cake. Please order him to try it.
I appreciate David’s phobia, as I just happened to watch the YouTuber B. Dylan Hollis use a Bundt pan to make a 1969 recipe for tuna Jell-O salad. Content warning: traumatically gross. Hollis’s channel is devoted to making all kinds of weird, antique recipes (tomato soup cake, ground pork fruitcake, etc.) and certainly confirms the Bundt pan’s repulsive midcentury intersection with gelatinous “salads.” But the Bundt is just a shape, a vessel that cannot be blamed for its disgusting passengers. If David eats standard cake, I order him to eat one in the delightful Bundt format. In fact, make it Hollis’s re-creation of 1956’s chocolate mayonnaise cake, which actually looks amazing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/magazine/judge-john-hodgman-on-fearing-the-bundt-cake.html
The issues are petty and trivial, and the answers rise to the challenge.
Karen writes: My husband, David, hates Bundt cake. I believe he was scarred by grotesque Bundt-shaped 1970s recipes. But he likes cake. Please order him to try it.
I appreciate David’s phobia, as I just happened to watch the YouTuber B. Dylan Hollis use a Bundt pan to make a 1969 recipe for tuna Jell-O salad. Content warning: traumatically gross. Hollis’s channel is devoted to making all kinds of weird, antique recipes (tomato soup cake, ground pork fruitcake, etc.) and certainly confirms the Bundt pan’s repulsive midcentury intersection with gelatinous “salads.” But the Bundt is just a shape, a vessel that cannot be blamed for its disgusting passengers. If David eats standard cake, I order him to eat one in the delightful Bundt format. In fact, make it Hollis’s re-creation of 1956’s chocolate mayonnaise cake, which actually looks amazing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/magazine/judge-john-hodgman-on-fearing-the-bundt-cake.html
