# I bought a used cake **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345 "2026-05-24T04:06:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/1 "2026-05-24T04:06:39Z")
I bought an Entenmann’s All Butter Cake. When I went to eat it I noticed the end flap had been opened and a slice neatly cut off with a knife! Do you eat it? ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/2 "2026-05-24T04:15:09Z")
Nope! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/3 "2026-05-24T04:17:19Z")
How poor and hungry are you? Mostly, unless you need it to sustain your life until you can get something else to eat, I’d say no. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/4 "2026-05-24T04:30:11Z")
Of course not. You can’t buy your cake and eat it too. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/5 "2026-05-24T04:32:32Z")
Ewwwww! Don’t eat it. Go gripe at the store. Get a refund. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/6 "2026-05-24T04:36:43Z")
That’s bad, but better than where my mind went when I read the title. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/7 "2026-05-24T04:39:50Z")
Ewwww! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/8 "2026-05-24T04:44:47Z")
[![](https://assets.penny-arcade.com/comics/20050729-oAnIuesG@2x.jpg) ](https://assets.penny-arcade.com/comics/20050729-oAnIuesG@2x.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/9 "2026-05-24T06:24:55Z")
I wouldn’t eat it and I would return it to the store where I bought it for a refund or replacement. Although I’d be prepared for the possibility that they would treat you poorly, regardless of whether they do anything to make you whole. Decades ago, I bought some pork chops from a major grocery store that turned out to be just … weird. They had these strange black spots on them. I took them back to the grocery and got a pretty icy reception; they did replace them, but they acted like it was all my fault, somehow, and they were doing me a favor. It was humiliating; I felt like they believed I was trying to cheat them somehow, which I most certainly was not. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/10 "2026-05-24T06:34:31Z")
Well, darn. Turns out the wife ate a piece. She never eats cake. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/11 "2026-05-24T11:41:22Z")
Wait six hours and if she survives, eat the rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/12 "2026-05-24T11:45:26Z")
Obviously it said Eat Me. 😀 Did she become 10 feet tall after eating it? ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/13 "2026-05-24T12:21:14Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Well, darn. Turns out the wife ate a piece. She never eats cake. I guess you can’t return the cake then. You could try returning the wife. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/14 "2026-05-24T12:56:58Z")
We got a used cake for my brother’s second birthday. Someone had ordered it for the previous day and never picked it up, so it was marked way down, and my mom decided, quite reasonably, that since my brother couldn’t read, he wasn’t going to care that it said “HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA NIMMY.” She did scrape off the “Grandma Nimmy” part before serving it to guests, although that didn’t do much good, since six-year-old me thought it was hilarious and insisted on telling everyone 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/15 "2026-05-24T13:05:26Z")
Re-heat and Re-Eat. The Mantra of Leftovers. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/16 "2026-05-24T13:53:36Z")
Cute story. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/17 "2026-05-24T16:31:44Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > How poor and hungry are you? Mostly, unless you need it to sustain your life until you can get something else to eat, I’d say no. This. If I’m poor and hungry, i cut off an intermediate slice, sniff and examine it, and then i eat it. But I’m not poor and hungry, so i don’t eat it. I might or might not bother to return it. > [@mixdenny](#): > > Well, darn. Turns out the wife ate a piece. She never eats cake. 😆 Good thing you didn’t just throw away the rest, then. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/18 "2026-05-24T17:02:34Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Wait six hours and if she survives, eat the rest in peace. Or if it kills her, eat some and you can both rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/19 "2026-05-24T17:26:07Z")
Or if it kills her, then don’t eat some and rest in the peace and quiet of newfound singlehood. I was going for maximum ambiguity and pun potential there. Thanks for playing along. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345/20 "2026-05-24T17:53:52Z")
mixdenny: “Did you eat a piece of this cake?” mixdenny’s wife: “mmfmfmg…NO!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-used-cake/1030345.md?page=2)