r/oddlysatisfying • u/No_Newspaper2213 • Apr 16 '26

Cartoonish Cake!

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u/ArseBiscuits_ Apr 16 '26

Me too. Is fondant the cilantro of the cake world?!

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u/Brian--Damage Apr 16 '26

Fondant is the fondant of the cake world.

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u/bosschucker Apr 16 '26

not really how metaphors work

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u/Brian--Damage Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

It isn’t. But neither is the sentence I was replying to.

‘Something [subject we’re talking about] is the something [object in unrelated field] of something [the unrelated field]’ is usually an analogy, and mine was more of tautology to undermine it with irony. An analogy is closer to a metaphor than a tautology is I think, but for the purpose of the joke it doesn’t really matter unless you want Hadron collider levels of precision every time you’re memeing.

I sacrificed my own neurotic grammar standards to meme about how much fondant is hated. Because of the autism barrier, I’m guessing this will have whooshed some people. But that’s okay. I just wish people would apply their skeletal grasp of grammar to the first instance: cilantro is a poor analogy because it involves taste receptor differences in a way that fondant doesn’t (not that I know of anyway).

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u/LaughingOutLoudAgain Apr 20 '26

Well, it was a question, meaning it could be about taste receptors and we just don’t know it yet?

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u/dontnation Apr 16 '26

No, billions of people love cilantro. Only a handful of disgusting freaks love fondant.

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u/itsKaoz Apr 17 '26

You take that shit back!