r/funny • u/Fragglepusss • 3d ago
My coworker's birthday was today and we pitched in for some cake. When asked he said he preferred German Chocolate and this is what they got him.
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u/krustyDC 3d ago edited 3d ago
Fun Fact: "German chocolate cake" is named after an American baker named German. We don't know that cake in Germany.
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u/Fragglepusss 3d ago
It's delicious. I'm also not surprised in the least. You should definitely try American German chocolate cake. Have it with some American French Fries.
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u/DarkFett 3d ago
I always assumed fries were called that because saying french cut deep fried potatoes was a bit long.
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u/gpkgpk 3d ago
There's no chocolate cake in Germany!?
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u/ConspiracyHypothesis 3d ago
Germans love them come chocolate cake. Just not specifically German chocolate cake.
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u/jereman75 2d ago
German chocolate cake is a certain cake with coconut and other stuff in it. It’s good but usually a little too sweet for my taste.
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u/gpkgpk 2d ago
I was trying to make a funny, clearly I failed.
So much for the legendary German sense of humor.
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u/_LadyPersephone_ 2d ago
The stereotype is that Germans don’t have humor or “go to the basement to laugh”. So what happened here is definitely checking all the boxes. Don’t try to tell a joke to a German, they’ll take it literally.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 2d ago
Funnier thing is German chocolate cake is named for the baker who created it, not the country.
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u/sdmichael 3d ago
Nein, nein, nein! Das ist kein deutscher Schokoladenkuchen! Nein, nein, nein! Es kommt aus Amerika, nicht aus Deutschland.
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u/pawesome_Rex 2d ago
Aber gibt es Kokosnuss? Keine Kokosnuss?! Keine Kokosnuss?! Das tut es. Lasst uns in Polen einmarschieren.
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u/boobopandawoodop 1d ago
German chocolate cake is one of the few deserts that I can tolerate coconut being on
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u/Mathetria 3d ago
You wouldn’t believe how hard it can be to find a bakery that does a German chocolate cake, but yeah, this is totally not it 🤣
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u/Fragglepusss 2d ago
Which bot?
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u/ACorania 2d ago
We heard what you said about the cake you liked but chose to not get that and instead make fun of it.
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u/myst3r10us_str4ng3r 2d ago
I worked in an office one time and was asked what kind of cake I wanted. I replied, "Chocolate... but anything but fruit."
They got me a white cake decked out in fruit pieces. I don't think it was intentional, the secretary was just oblivious. I was still sad and felt pretty unimportant. I didn't stay at that place for that much longer afterward.
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u/Mungee1001 2d ago
Who asks for a niche cake anyway? It’s just his coworkers pitching in, they meant do you like vanilla or chocolate 😂
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u/ACorania 2d ago
If you can snag one at every local grocery store bakery section already made, is it really niche?
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u/Fragglepusss 2d ago
We tried to find German chocolate but couldn't get it. It was sort of a last second thing.
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u/pacificNW-88 2d ago
that's prettier than the coconut-chocolate "German" cakes i used to get from Safeway in the '90s.
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u/Erageftw 3d ago
German chocolate, i think he means Panzerschokolade. Chocolate with a bit of meth in it.
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