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This isn't news. The story about the donation has been making the rounds for a few days. The article about the donation did not appear in DCist until this morning, though.
by Rachel Kurzius in Food on Jan 23, 2017 10:12 am
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One of the moments at Friday's A Salute To Our Armed Services Inaugural Ball at the National Building Museum featured Vice President Mike Pence cutting into a tall cake with a sword after a long applause.
Charm City Cakes' Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes, found a striking similarity between that cake and his baked creation for the Obama inauguration in 2013, and tweeted as much.
It's no coincidence. ... Buttercream Bakery owner Tiffany MacIsaac, whose shop made the cake, told The Washington Post that the client had a photo of the Obama cake and asked for an exact replica. She asked if they instead wanted the photo to serve as "inspiration" for a new creation. ... They said, Nope, they want this exact cake. Its perfect. And we said, Great," MacIsaac said.
She declined to name the client, who asked for a cake that couldn't be eaten. She told the Post that "Its just a Stryofoam cake. Its not for eating," with the exception of one three-inch slice at the bottom. ... Buttercream Bakery has pledged the profits from its creation to Human Rights Campaign. It said on Instagram that it decided on HRC because "basic human rights are something every man, woman and child~ straight, gay or the rainbow in between~ deserve!"
underpants
(182,934 posts)It was a stage prop? Duff, like all the cakes I've seen made in the Food Network, makes a complete cake. It can be eaten. You know, like a cake.
Fake/stolen crowd pics
Fake writing of a speech and fake photo
4 flat out lies in Saturday's presser
Alternative facts
Cheering sections for press conferences and speeches
Stolen convention speech
I'm sure I've missed other verified fake things
I'm pretty sure some of the violence at the rallies was staged
I get that he's from a fake reality show but this isn't TV anymore. Holy cow. I must have missed that it was a fake cake.
malaise
(269,203 posts)and the tiny hands are real - so is the triple chin - everything else is fake including the 'alternative facts'.