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Pumpkin cake may be as good as pumpkin pie, but I was reminded that no one would eat a chicken pot cake, or a steak and kidney cake.

Actually, I just picked up a copy of the Oregonian, ant it has in it a recipe for Chicken Pot Cake.

I'm just sayin'...

I haven't weighed in on this matter. If absolutely pushed to the wall, I would pick cake over pie; however, both must bow to the vast superiority of cookies.

There are no bad dessert choices. There are only (thanks to the evil of MegaloMart-style bakeries) bad desserts.

Let no class of dessert suffer unjust punishment for the misdeeds of individual desserts, for all are worthy in the eyes of the Supreme Sweet Tooth. Yes, that includes (in a pinch) cinnamon toast, not to mention the culinary wonder that is my Mom's recipe for Baked Apples.

Thank You, and have a great week, LMB.

I say this matter should be decided on quality of each individual dessert, not a blanket indictment against an entire type of dessert. A good cake trumps a bad pie, and a good pie is better than bad cake.

Don't judge a dessert only by a broad label!

All cakes (cake...blech) MUST BE DESTROYED!

Except, of course, cheesecake, which is essentially a confused pie.

And possibly red-velvet cake. Because it's just too much trashy fun.

Also, if we destroy coffee cake, we'll upset like a zillion old ladies. So I guess that one gets a pass.

But lemon-chiffon and bundt definitely MUST BE DESTROYED!

(bundt...blech)

I thought the Invaders wiped out the Bundt in the '40s.

Hurray!

(DIE, LEMON-CHIFFON!)

Bundt I'll give you. And angel food.

But German chocolate cake? Strawberry shortcake (not the cartoon)? rum cake? no way; they're keepers.

YES! They just surrendered angel food cake!

(Now, Kent, strawberry shortcakes - as anyone can tell you - are actually fabulously gay biscuits)

(depends on how they are made. they can be made with pound cake. or as an actual full cake, with layers of strawberries and cream)

mmm-hmm, mmm-hmm, that's interesting. But just remember the old saying: If it looks like a cake and acts like a cake, it's probably some totally trashed debutante in a really puffy ball gown.

Suddenly I crave trifle. I don't know why. I'm not even British.

Trifle is cake salad.

(blech)

Surely you jest. How else could one get away with consuming gelatine AND sherry together in mid-day-- in public yet?

Sends a Boston Cream Pie to Tamper Lad.

I present the following evidence in cake's defense. Pie is the real culprit.

With the film festival taking over the ritzy part of town, I suggest that this piece of coconut cream pie from Scaramouche is the real villain. Cake could not have possibly made you fat your Honor. It was this pie.

A tiny 310 gram slice of this pie has 65 grams of fat and 990 calories. Good thing too, at 13 dollars for the slice, it's pretty much all I'm eating for the day.

I would like to make the argument for balance.

Pie on Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday.

Cake on Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday.

Brownies on Monday.

Pie on Thanksgiving and Easter Sunday.

Cake on Chirstmas and my birthday.

No rooom for Jell-o???

with the main course. Jell-o is a protein, right?

I'm hearing from backroom channels that this would be unacceptable to the pie fanatics. They claim brownies are cake.

They would only accept if pie's savory allies: Danish, Croissant, Pot Pie, Wellington, Quiche and Jamaican Patty get to form the largest block in the rotations of mains.

Technically, brownies are a bar cookie and not a cake. If we make Monday cookie day (which by definition can include brownies), would that be acceptable to all?

Of course, if I had my druthers, every day would be cookie day.

Rocky, rather than searching for your missing druthers, you could always just capture all the Keebler elves and enslave them. That way, you'd be guaranteed a never-ending supply of cookies AND fudge.

(Hint: They're extremely loyal to their leader. You may have to have him executed.)

I don't know how well that would work. Most mass-produced cookies are meh!

Of course, Keebler does own the rights to Sunshine cookies and, so owns Hydrox, which are now longer made (except for a special run a couple years back to celebrate its hundredth anniversary). Taking them over could force them to bring back the original chocolate sandwich cookie that the silly usurper Oreo marketed into obscurity. Yes, you heard a-right. Hydrox was the original, beating Oreo out by four years!

Still, enslaving the Keebler Elves seems a bit extreme.

Rocky, Keebler cookies are "mass-produced" by magical elves who live in a hollow tree. If you enslave them, you could force them to mass-produce magical fudge bombs which you could then use to annihilate that shady Nabisco outfit.