My mother has been a florist for 40 years and this is totally normal and has been for generations. I don't understand why this article exists. Everything old is new again?

I've seriously never heard of this, and am middle aged and married with kids, and lots of married friends.

A few friends had 2-3 tiered cakes, but they were always real cakes, just quite boring internally (plain vanilla sponge). At most, there were posts through the middle to round pieces of cardboard/wood/something in between the layers for support, for one wedding I went to. Most others were just big elaborate "normal" cakes.

I always assumed the crazy big American wedding cakes on TV were at least mostly real, maybe with supports and levels to structure it.

I've been at some weddings in Poland, and I never knew. Now I wonder whether we don't do that here, or it was me who was just not paying attention.

I suppose this article exists because other people are surprised too.

It's sort of a profile of a local business.

There are places on this planet where not everything is a cheap Simulacrum.

I can't say I'm surprised learning about a new one from the USA Theme Park though.

Sadly this doesn’t surpise me and paints perfectly into the bigger picture of today’s america - home of deception.

that oriental Chineese soup is made by third generation americans that look like asians but never been to or heard a single chinese word. They got ingredients from local Cali’s market.

That CVS 100% natural aloe vera? It doesnt have any traces of real alovera at all!

Crab meat? I dint think so; its all immitation made from eatable sponge.

That naural honey? Its all high fructose corn syroupe.

The list go on and on ;( so sad that we as a society in whole accept this state of affairs ;(

I think you may want to re-evaluate your cynicism. If you read the article they mention that baked tiered cakes for weddings are stale and mostly ineadible. I can believe this. I have baked a few layer cakes and anything more than a few thin layers (enough to make a good topper) is a serious challenge. This is pragmatism and guest enjoyment over deception.

I’d take the fresh sheet cake over a week old repeatedly frozen and thawed cake.

> baked tiered cakes for weddings are stale

Here's a radical idea then: let's stop deceiving guests they are eating such a cake.

Or, just eat the cake and move on with your life.

The cake is a lie. I can't eat it, that's the point.

> that oriental Chineese soup is made by third generation americans that look like asians but never been to or heard a single chinese word. They got ingredients from local Cali’s market.

So long as they enjoy the soup, why does anything else matters?

I never got the why Asian Americans are so adamant about exclaiming the superiority of authentic Asian food. We get it: American Chinese food is not the same.

> that oriental Chineese soup is made by third generation americans that look like asians

Huh, okay, this is a genuinely new kind of racism to me.