I had an actual post, but I'm scrapping it because it makes me look crazy

[holdouttrout]

My question, brought on by boredom and a leftover cupcake from yesterday's birthday celebration, is this:

Would Jack count cupcakes as cake?

Because they really are cake, in one sense, but...they're cupcakes. I never think of cake and cupcakes as essentially the same thing, even though they are.

Right?

And now I've decided I want cake-themed fic. *trundles off to search the web*

Okay, so this post makes me look crazy, too, but trust me, the other one was crazier.

ETA: Wait! Have a couple of sweets before you go. I'll share! I'm nice!

A Stargate-Themed Wedding Cake.
aurora_novarum wrote What Would Jack Do? (A series of ficlets) that mentions cake. A lot. *grins*
aurora_novarum also wrote The Lollipop Guild, which ALSO mentions cake.
Jojo wrote Just Don't Eat the Cake, which is Sam/Jack under the influence of really delicious pastry, and one of the most hilarious fics EVER.

Comments

[ziparumpazoo]

Individually frosted cakes, according to Nerus. *g* Jack would just think of them as 'convenience cakes' because they don't require utensils. And you could throw one in the pocket of a TAC vest. Well, that's my take on it.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. This has potential. Although cupcakes might not fare too well over time in a TAC vest.

[annerbhp.livejournal.com]

And this one doesn't make you look crazy?

Cupcakes and cake are the same thing. One is just portable and doesn't require utensils. And stuff. (Much easier to smuggle into certain astrophysicist's labs as well.)

Why did I let you get me talking about this? Lol.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hey! I totally mentioned that this post was crazy, too. Or did I make that type too tiny?

Now that I've got you talking... why not try writing? Because smuggling cupcakes into astrophysicist's labs sounds like fun...

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

IMHO, the only crazy thing about this post is the fact that you tagged it as meta. I find that hilarious.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hee. Well, it STARTED as meta. And then devolved. But hey, cake!

[mrspollifax.livejournal.com]

I just think this icon should be on the page. That is all.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

good call.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I think of cupcakes as cakes, but I don't know that Jack would... I suspect he'd have some deeply-felt reason to insist that they totally don't count. I don't think he'd be satisfied by cupcakes if cake was what he wanted.

But then I think he'd also say that carrot cake didn't count, either.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

But then I think he'd also say that carrot cake didn't count, either.

On this, Jack and I are in perfect agreement. Carrot cake is not cake. It's vegetables (and fruit, if there are raisins, which is even more wrong) staging an ambush in an otherwise delicious food.

(Of course, I don't like coconut, and I bet Jack doesn't mind that.)

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Although perhaps he would count it as vegetable cake and thus serving double duty. You know, the Bill Cosby definition of nutrition.

"It has eggs! And milk! That's nutrition!"

And um...YAY! Cake!

Note to trout: Awww, thanks for the recs! I totally need to make a dessert tag for my fic, don't I?

[archersangel (from livejournal.com)]

But then I think he'd also say that carrot cake didn't count, either

i'd think so. i don't like carrot cake because i don't like carrots. *blech* it would bug my mom that she had to grate the carrots into powder for me to eat the thing. i don't like raisins either, so they were out as well.

[lizbet0.livejournal.com]

I can just hear Jack discussing it with Sam:

"They're cake, but...not."

"Of course, sir."

(Heh. This why I don't write fic. It kinda sucketh. grin}

Jojo's "Just Don't Eat the Cake" is one of my favorite fics *ever*!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah. I bet they had lots of discussions like that over the years.

[supplyship.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA, nope you don't sound crazy at all! ;)

I think Jack's an Equal Opportunity Cake-eater. He'd probably eat anything with "cake" in the name. Or pie. *use pie eating icon*

Good recs! And didn't someone have a good, smutty s/j, cake-made-them-do-it fic? Lyssie? Aeryn? *must investigate*

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

If you find that fic, you MUST bring it back. *g*

(Also, aurora also has a pie fic, just in case, and because I really wanted to sneak it in after she pointed it out to me: Pie Day (http://aurora-novarum.livejournal.com/50843.html).)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Oh, Aeryn has a cake-made-them-do-it fic! That one I remember. It's very smutty. *g*

Cake.

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

Did someone say cake?

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Maaaaybe?

[rdamel.livejournal.com]

I can't miss this opportunity to use this great icon, now can I?

And imho, Jack would consider cupcakes a useful form of cake, yet at the same time, never his first choice, which would be Cake. Eaten with a fork. And sharing with his team, if possible. Although he would have the largest piece.

And I think I've read all the fic mentioned, but I'm off to read and enjoy again.
Thanks for this!
Melissa M.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Although he would have the largest piece.

Of course! Sharing is good, but you can't go too crazy.

[archersangel (from livejournal.com)]

it's cake IMHO. in a you-don't-have-to-cut-it form.

oooo! and what about petit fours? too fancy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_four

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

It would seem that petit fours have a high probability of politicians attached... but they ARE cake. So. Jack might be conflicted. Hee.

[sg-betty.livejournal.com]

Sure! They're little handy pieces of cake that can go anywhere. Delicious portable cake!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Aw, man. Now I want cake. Again. Still. *grins*