# Cake or ice cream? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988 "2011-07-06T03:15:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/21 "2011-07-06T12:54:43Z")
The last time I was offers cake/ice cream was at a St Patrick’s Day megaparty. I put a chunk of cake and a spoon of ice-cream into a pint of Guinness and had a float. It was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/22 "2011-07-06T13:06:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. I thought about that, decided against it since it didn’t involve flavors of ice cream or recipes for cake. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/23 "2011-07-06T13:17:29Z")
If it’s _good_ cake, probably cake, but most birthday cakes aren’t good. That said, my feeling is, why choose? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/24 "2011-07-06T14:44:29Z")
Ice cream all the way. I’ll grudgingly eat cake without ice cream, but I’ll gladly eat ice cream without cake. But it’s a tricky question, as cakes vary wildly in goodness. I love butter cream frosting but loathe marshmallow frosting. I like yellow cake but am lukewarm at best to chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/25 "2011-07-06T14:55:17Z")
I loathe ordinary cake. I loathe the box cakes baked in a cruddy 9x13 pan almost as much as the disgusting half-sheet crisco-frosted things from the grocery store. (It’s OK if you’re, say, 10, and want frosting roses on it, but I gag just looking at it.) The thing is, there are beautiful and delicious cakes right in the same case - strawberry and whipped cream, carrot cake, red velvet cake, beautiful confections! but expensive, and maybe that’s why the fallback is the same old thing - something big n’ bland to fill up all those mouths. I’ll take a tiny piece just to be polite but I put a napkin over it and stuff it in the trash when no one is looking… The ice cream is OK, anyone can swallow a scoop of choklit or vaniller ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![CrimeThink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@CrimeThink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrimeThink)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/26 "2011-07-06T15:19:16Z")
Cake stinks, I have a birthday pies on my birthdays. With ice cream, of course. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/27 "2011-07-06T15:33:08Z")
Cake! I’ve got sensitive teeth. Ice cream bothers my teeth. I’ve grown to not be all that fond of ice cream. Plus, cake is awesome! ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/28 "2011-07-06T16:23:39Z")
If it’s that typical birthday cake that to me has no real flavor beyond ‘sweet’, it will be ice cream every time. In fact, off the top of my head, I van only think of a couple cakes that would beat ice cream-German chocolate, chocolate covered cherry cake, or carrot cake. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/29 "2011-07-06T16:27:15Z")
Cake. Ice cream is the kind of thing I only eat a couple of times a year. I don’t really care for it that much unless I’m really in the mood. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/30 "2011-07-06T16:31:11Z")
I love to bake cakes. I’ll take the cake every time. Especially if I’m the one who made it. 🙂 The fact that I’m lactose intolerant probably figures into my answer as well. Ice cream is almost never worth it. It’s a sad state of affairs. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/31 "2011-07-06T17:42:46Z")
Definitely ice cream, unless it’s vanilla frosting. I have [del]a love[/del] an addiction to vanilla frosting that is so strong I’ve been known to eat it off of other people’s plates if they discard them. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/32 "2011-07-06T17:53:54Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Ice cream cake? Bingo was his name-o ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/33 "2011-07-06T20:46:58Z")
Oysters or snails? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/34 "2011-07-06T20:59:51Z")
Unless it’s a special cake as opposed to a run-of-the-mill layer cake, I’ll go for ice cream every time. I loves me some ice cream! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/35 "2011-07-06T21:14:36Z")
Ice cream. I have finicky taste in cake (pie \> cake!). Most commercial frosting tastes like crap. But almost any ice cream can taste good. Especially green tea ice cream, yay! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/36 "2011-07-06T23:53:23Z")
I love cake, and I love ice cream, but at a birthday party, I only want cake\*. I don’t care much for ice cream on anything - it melts and does strange things to my dessert. I don’t like ice cream cakes at all. There, I said it, and I stand by it. 🙂 \*And no damned yellow cake, either - I don’t get to waste calories on cake every day, so it had better be chocolate! ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/37 "2011-07-06T23:57:29Z")
If it’s an actual, honest-to-god “good” cake, I will choose the cake. Otherwise, I prefer ice cream. Approximately 95% of the cakes I have been served at birthday parties are not good. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/38 "2011-07-06T23:58:32Z")
Ice cream, no question. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/39 "2011-07-07T01:03:58Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Ice cream. I have finicky taste in cake (pie \> cake!). Most commercial frosting tastes like crap. But almost any ice cream can taste good. Especially green tea ice cream, yay! Well, welcome back. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988/40 "2011-07-07T01:39:59Z")
> [@jamiemcgarry](#): > > Well, welcome back. Really? This was a fun thread. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-or-ice-cream/587988.md?page=3)