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Its got frosting, berries, and what looks like a vanilla base. The only problem I could anticipate with a Minecraft cake is that it would be dry. But the cake is big which I interpret to mean it is a sheet cake. In my experience sheet cakes tend to stay moist.
...I really want to eat the Minecraft cake now.
The cake is a lie.
The Minecraft cake is likely vanilla not chocolate therefore the Minecraft cake is probably not a lie.
If chocolate cake is a lie
If vanilla is the opposite of chocolate
Then:
Cake(portal) = chocolate => Cake(portal) =lie
Cake(Minecraft) ≈ vanilla => Cake(Minecraft) ≈ true
Gotcha 🔥
But is chocolate truly the opposite of vanilla?
Let's take a moment to define vanilla:
"A commercially important extract of the vanilla bean that is used especially as a flavoring"
Now let's define chocolate:
"A food prepared from ground roasted cacao beans."
Notice that both foods are extracted from beans. If both are extracted from beans, then they are of a similar nature and cannot be opposites.
To further drive this point home, we have this blurb from Word Hippo which describes what might be defined as antonyms of the word "chocolate":
"The word chocolate typically refers to a sweet confection made from ground and roasted cacao seeds.
There are no categorical antonyms for this word.
However, one could loosely use unrelated, and especially savory, foodstuffs as antonyms, e.g., omelet, fries, chicken, etc."
Note that at no point does it describe vanilla -- which also belongs to the "sweet" category of flavor sensations -- as a potential opposite.
Therefore, if Cake(portal) = chocolate = lie, then it also stands to reason that Cake(minecraft) = vanilla = lie.
The bottom line is, all desert cakes belong to the "sweet" flavor category, and cannot be opposites of one another. So, no matter how you slice it, the cake will always be a lie.
I have been thoroughly schooled 😔
Texture is such an important part of taste. The cake from Minecraft may look amazing, but the the rock hard block texture of the Minecraft world would make this cake not at all tasty.
"The most extreme textural revulsion occurs when we feel something unexpected in our mouths. If you pop in a chunk of chocolate only to find that it doesn't melt, or you're immersed in the gloopy wonder of a mushroom risotto and suddenly bite down on some grit, you get a rude awakening. An unsettling moment of panic that your food is rotten, or contaminated with something gross."
I feel like this perfectly describes what a Minecraft cake tasting experience would be like.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/jul/02/food-texture-how-important
But... if you could eat the Minecraft cake you'd be in Minecraft, which means you'd be a Minecraft character with entirely different expectations as to what 'cake' should taste like.
Which begs the question as to whether OP is answering as a human or as their projected Minecraft character.
ahh this is a good point, I was thinking that if we took the Minecraft cake and portalled it into the real world it would taste good. So I'm answering as myself.
But I also think that just because the Minecraft interface is blocks (low res) doesn't mean that the constituent parts of the items in the world are also blocky. I think that there are organic and inorganic items in Minecraft which implies that the actual structure of the item has little bearing on its function or consumption by the avatar.
Maybe the different physics/logic of Minecraft wouldn't translate well into the real world which is where I'd say @jape is right, but I think it would translate well into our physics/logic system which is why I think it'd taste good.
So I think the speculative "would" of the opinion confirms that OP is looking at this as a human. As cake is generally seen as delicious for humans we can suppose that Minecraft characters would also find Minecraft cake delicious. The real mystery is if humans would find Minecraft cake delicious.
Making a cake in Minecraft requires the bare minimum of ingredients for what we would consider an eatable cake in the real world. The directions for preparing a cake in the crafting grid goes as follows:
"Place three buckets of milk across the top three slots.
Place one sugar to the left of the center slot, and one to the right.
Place the egg in the center slot.
Place the wheat in the remaining three bottom slots of the grid."
Although the texture and visual ingredients might indicate a vanilla base with a handful of berries on top, there is no evidence of these components ever being required to produce a cake. The existence of the base and berries purely relies on the interpretation of the observer but is not supported by the cake's recipe.
The cake would simply be a lump of wheat, egg, milk, and sugar.
Official Minecraft Wiki. (n.d.). Cake. Retrieved January 21, 2021, from https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Cake
WikiHow. (2020, October 17). How to Make a Cake in Minecraft. Retrieved January 21, 2021, from https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Cake-in-Minecraft
This is a very good point, now that I looked into it (beyond just looking at the cake) it seems like the cake is a sponge cake.
The recipe provides insight on the base of the cake that I hadn't considered. But I think the visual representation of the cake is relevant because there are no red berries in the recipe, only in the final product.
Therefore in Minecraft, the recipe doesn't totally reflect the finished product. I'll concede that I hadn't considered the actual ingredients when creating my initial response, but I do not think the recipe information trumps the visual impression the Minecraft cake gives.
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