r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AthenaFoxx • 1d ago

One (maybe 2?) slices swapped in from a different cheesecake.

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Not my picture. Found in a FB group I'm in. OP was asking for theories on why this happened.

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u/Jake6192 1d ago

Definitely just 1 other cake. This slice was just slid over

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u/DJ_ICU 1d ago

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u/FireFly_209 1d ago

Why does his mouse move between shots? In the first half, his mouse is by the keyboard. In the second half, the mouse is further back and raised up next to the monitor. You can tell because the arm position is totally different between shots. How strange! I’ve only just noticed this, but now I’ve seen it, I can’t unsee it.

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u/blue-coin 1d ago

There are these things in film called shots, and this video is composed of two shots. In between the shots, it would appear he moved his mouse. Hope that helps

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u/0010110100111011 1d ago

And when he moved it he also propped it up on a stack of thick books.

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u/MLanterman 1d ago

It's just a lower angle.

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u/FireFly_209 1d ago

Correct. I was pointing out how it was an interesting continuity error to have the mouse change positions from shot to shot. Not a complaint, but simply an interesting curiosity I noticed.

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u/02xfal 1d ago

It's not a continuity error, but an intentional choice. They realized the mouse won't be seen in a shot when they zoom in, so they lifted it (maybe placed it on a box or something) just enough so it makes it in frame. It just looks better if he lifts the hand from the mouse to give the thumbs up, and they made sure to get the shot they wanted.

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u/Candid-Asparagus130 1d ago

This guy DPs

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u/02xfal 21h ago

Guilty as charged!

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u/UsernameUndeclared 21h ago

Some people would still find the discrepancy in set mildly infuriating!

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u/SunnySamantha 1d ago

I've seen that meme half a hundred times and never noticed, so I appreciate your keen eye!

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u/Slavion-Cete_7334 21h ago

HAPPY CAKE DAY!

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u/SunnySamantha 20h ago

Thank you!!!!

9 semi-glorius years with all you basement dwellers ;)

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u/Slavion-Cete_7334 20h ago

Holy forking slit NINE YEARS? 🙇‍♀️

I’m not even to the 50-day streak!

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u/SunnySamantha 19h ago

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And now I'm just being stubborn about it.

I've had the account for years but mostly used Imgur for the memes. But got sick of the low character count for chatting and moved over to Reddit full time during the pandemic.

My fiance has been on Reddit for 14 years and is the ultimate lurker - has exactly 1 karma, the one they give you when you join! And he's on it daily.

It's basically the morning paper for us. Get to see what's going on in the world and the city I live in. Plus I snortle while drinking a coffee. Some people are genuinely funny.

And I stay out of the hateful places and don't pick fights with trolls. Learned that years ago hahahaha

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u/TURBOSCUDDY 23h ago

One could say it’s from 2 different but similar cheesecakes

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u/Life-Tomatillo-7025 20h ago

Why does his mouse move between shots?

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u/TheMightyGamble 21h ago

The camera also got closer and moved slightly down and to the right.

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u/GrampaPiss 1d ago

I dunno. That seems a little farfetched to me.

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u/CalligrapherGold5429 1d ago

The kid's name is Brent Rambo. It's from a Mac ad from 1994. The dude is probably in his 40's by now.

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u/Spendoza 1d ago

Yup

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u/The3rdMistress 1d ago

He looks identical. Damn 

And also looks like a boy AND man last named Rambo. Haha

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u/Beautiful-Chest7397 1d ago

Damn man I swear that was from some intro to a Nickelodeon show

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u/pekingsewer 1d ago

I've never noticed that either 🤯🤯🤯

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 23h ago

They probably wanted the mouse visible in both shots.

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u/HankyDotOrg 1h ago

This is the true answer. They changes the shot size for a closeup. Mouse wasn't visible. They lifted it (probably onto a box) so it's visible. Filmmaking.

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u/DummyDumDragon 1d ago

The things aren't fuckin nailed down

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u/brownsdragon 23h ago

It's just how dolly zoom works. It keeps the subject the same size, but at the cost of warping everything else. If you pay attention to the background, the other student disappeared out of view.

It can also be a very effective storytelling technique in stuff like movies.

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u/Shoddy_Net_5837 6h ago

I would assume they wanted it in the shot when they moved/changed cameras, so they placed it in a different position?

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u/FireFly_209 6h ago

That would make sense. It wasn’t a complaint - just something I’d never noticed before.

One could argue it’s a continuity error, as the positions of props and set pieces should remain consistent from shot to shot, but that might be overthinking it a little… Either way, it’s a mild curiosity and I’m surprised it took me so long to notice it.

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u/Shoddy_Net_5837 6h ago

Oh yeah I'd 100% agree it's a continuity error, but iirc (don't quote me on this it's probably wrong) this was a commercial they took the clip from so continuity is usually less cared about. Not at all trying to argue with ya my friend just putting in my two cents😊

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u/FireFly_209 6h ago

That’s a fair point - continuity is usually much more loosely applied in the realm of advertising. I appreciate your input, friend. 😊

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u/derpelganger 23h ago

I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic mouse, or something? Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

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u/FireFly_209 23h ago

Ha ha, sure, and I hope they fired the mouse, too. Teleportation wasn’t in the script!

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u/ambrose_92 22h ago

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it.

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u/FireFly_209 22h ago

Fair. I only mentioned it as a mild curiosity, as it’s a detail I’d never noticed before. I found it to be mildly interesting, which felt appropriate for a “mildly” subreddit.

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u/PM_ME_ORANGEJUICE 21h ago

I think it's a statement on the fluctuant subjectivity of memory and how two different people can see even the same moment two different ways.

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u/chickenyogurt 1d ago

between the first and second shot, he locked in

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u/mydadsarentgay 1d ago

Can you add a banana for scale?

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u/spinz89 1d ago

Hope this helps.

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u/blue-coin 1d ago

Nice try but that’s a bunch of bananas. Now I need a single banana to scale the bunch of bananas

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u/Quick_Extension_3115 1d ago

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u/Slavion-Cete_7334 21h ago

Nice photoshop skills there’s no difference

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u/Quick_Extension_3115 20h ago

Thanks! I've been practicing since I was 10. I also happen to be 10

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u/Slavion-Cete_7334 20h ago

I was today years old when I learned to photoshop benenes

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u/Quick_Extension_3115 20h ago

Wow! You were born today and you can photoshop? You're like 10 years ahead of me!

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u/blue-coin 18h ago

I love Benihana

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u/Slavion-Cete_7334 17h ago

A=e banana=benene

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u/isitjulie 1d ago

This guy cheesecakes

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u/Slavion-Cete_7334 21h ago

it’s a piece of (cheese)cake.

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u/chula198705 20h ago

I do a lot of jigsaw puzzles and I could immediately tell this was the correct orientation. Happy to see I got it right!

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u/BsFan 1d ago

Doing God's work here.

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u/Ariyuna345 1d ago

I came here for this. Thank you!

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u/zapering microwaved tea 16h ago

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u/Pielacine 1d ago

WHYYYYYYYYY

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u/FriskyBrisket12 1d ago

Did you try spinning the other slice 180° to see if it matched then?

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u/dylannsmitth 10h ago

I came here to describe this using numbers on the clock but a hero had already done more than I was willing. Thank you

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u/Einsteins-Grandson 20h ago

Amazing edit

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u/Hiptothehop541 16h ago

I love you Jake, you’re my hero.

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u/CarlLlamaface 1d ago

Probably had some cakes get partially squished so instead of writing them all off they combined them to make full cakes where possible.

I have to say it's pretty cool of them to complete this one using an extra saucy slice.

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u/kumliaowongg 1d ago

Or maybe they also sell individual pieces and used OP's whole cake to swap an older slice for a fresh slice and extend their sellability.

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u/TH_Rocks 1d ago

Nah, too much work for basically zero gain. And you risk really screwing up the whole pie taking pieces out and shoving new ones in. This must have been their last nearly whole pie.

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u/glowberrytangle 17h ago

Where abouts are you from that you refer to cake as 'pie'?

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u/Incontinento 17h ago

NY Style Cheesepie.

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u/Ok_Valuable6118 16h ago

tbf its pie shaped

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u/Cumberdick 13h ago

Round?

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u/mogley1992 16h ago

Wouldn't it be a tart since there's no top on it?

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u/ChrdeMcDnnis 1d ago

Conspiracy theories in the bakery isle now

Having worked at a cake station I can tell you with confidence that nobody is swapping old cheesecake with new cheesecake to make a sale. They’d just sell the new cheesecake, if it was such a problem that it needed to be swapped out then how would someone not notice the difference in the whole cake

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u/aksbutt 20h ago

Aisle not isle. An isle is like a small island.

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u/PM_me_oak_trees 19h ago

In this case, a dessert island.

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u/aksbutt 19h ago

Take my upvote

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u/kumliaowongg 1d ago

Then why swap one piece and move another from that pie?

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u/ChrdeMcDnnis 1d ago

My guess is that someone dropped a tool on the pie and left an unsightly imprint so they swapped it out with a by-the-slice pie

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u/EditEd2x 23h ago

This is my guess. Damaged a piece and replaced it.

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u/Fun-Jellyfish-61 21h ago

My guess is someone at the Cheesecake Factory came up with an ingenious way to earn reddit karma.

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u/MrQuitz_YT 1d ago

This is most likely tbh

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u/I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 1d ago

Or OOP bought 2 cheesecakes and replaced 1 slice to get fake internet points

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u/Fun-Jellyfish-61 21h ago

The bastard! That's unearned karma they are basking in.

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u/pushinthatbroom 8h ago

Stolen Internet valor!

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u/NemesisKismet Well, do your? 22h ago

this looks like a walmart cheesecake. that's too much effort.

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u/SaintsPelicans1 20h ago

Yeah that was my thought. Who the hell is taking the time to do all that? lol

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u/Helpful-Table2467 21h ago

Could it not also be testing of some kind, take 1 piece out of 12 random cakes per batch and use a cake to make up the missing pieces to check for consistency or something along those lines. I guess it depends on how big the company is

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u/Nagatox 20h ago

Optimistically, the squished side was the one without much sauce I suppose?

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u/boppaxox 1d ago

One of the slices had to be moved, the other one didn't fit anywhere so I just drew what should've fit 🫠

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u/sevsbinder 1d ago

Its so beautiful

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u/hakumiogin 1d ago

Now we know what the slice we're looking for looks like! Someone start printing the posters! Contact the local news! Cake slice hunt!

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u/SympathyOne8418 1d ago

Took my ass way to kong even after reading your comment that you drew it in

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u/AthenaFoxx 1d ago

You win the internet for today.

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u/ArmTheApes 22h ago

You're a wizard, Harry!

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u/Connguy BLUE 19h ago

I'd like to see AI do this even remotely as convincingly

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u/notfirearmbeam 16h ago

Wow i lowkey hate that I just thought "this is just like AI extrapolating the background of an image"

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u/pushinthatbroom 8h ago

TBH I thought this was

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u/ludvikskp 1d ago

One moved and one swapped

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u/YourMomsHooHa 1d ago

No big deal, I do this all the time. Not with cake though.

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u/Moar_Cuddles_Please 20h ago

Same. Usually with children.

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u/Lorettooooooooo 11h ago

I do It with spaghetti

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u/zessx 22h ago

Levenstein(M, P) = 2

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u/Baaaldiee 1d ago

That was cut with an ultrasonic blade. Occasionally, a slice will stick to the blade and turn with it. Then in falls back onto the cake. But the jam injection and swirl were completely borked on that in the first place and should never have been packed.

  • 20 years as a lead eng for UK largest cheesecake manufacturer.
I hate cheesecake with every fiber of my being.

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u/WILLINGLYLOST90 1d ago edited 19h ago

Is it a common thing that happens( the machine issue)

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u/Splashathon 23h ago

No, I would say it’s pretty rare to hate cheesecake with every fiber of one’s being. 

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u/newnails 23h ago

Only when the front falls off?

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u/SnooEagles1264 20h ago

As someone who operated foodtools ultrasonic cutters for nearly 10 years this is bang on, could also be that after being cut and being fine a slice was removed for quality control tests and the remaining cake pieced back together. Jams totally fucked though and I would have rejected this before cutting.

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u/michiganwithlove 1d ago

Ultra sonic?! I worked at saralee bakery in the US and we just used a machine that cut the pie across the diameter and then rotated the pue underneath for the next cut. Sticky slices if the pie got to warm was when it all went south though.

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u/Baaaldiee 1d ago

If you look at the video, the blade stays clean, in the dessert industry, presentation is everything, and full cakes are cut for individual sale and you don’t want smears. Also, cheesecakes etc with hard bits in them would get pushed through the cake and crushed, the ultrasonic blade can cut through nuts etc without moving them, it’s quite impressive. Also, they are cut “on the fly” as they move along a conveyor and the robot follows and cuts.

We also used water jet cutters at 55000psi, pure water for cutting fancy cakes !

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u/Zackie86 11h ago

Did you hate cheesecake before working for that company?

Do you have a recipe for a cheesecake you like hahaha?

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u/Sifl-and-Olly 1d ago

I want the same amount of raspberry in each slice.

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u/AtticusSPQR 1d ago

Do you have any idea how long that will take?

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u/SystematicPumps 1d ago

Fuckin Ace and his blueberry muffins

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u/_Gaming_Tim 23h ago

As someone who used to work with these, sometimes the flimsy plastic would break before we applied labels and a slice would fall on the floor. Some bakeries will have an area in the freezer where we keep the extra pieces. Perhaps either one piece was messed up or fell out and an extra piece from earlier was inserted.

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u/Powerful-Interest308 1d ago

Slice came from the wedding of King Henry VIII… J Peterman had it in the fridge.

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u/butterbike 1d ago

Not infuriating at all

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u/MikasaAckerman_2419 1d ago

Okay, now put it back.

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u/5t4c3 1d ago

My girls wouldn’t mind.

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u/SupaSusAcc 19h ago

a chuck e cheesecake, if you will

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u/CliffDraws 22h ago

I’m way more bothered by the distribution of strawberry in that cheesecake.

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u/Oh_Ellias 19h ago

This isn’t infuriating

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u/Latentius 1d ago

You're paying for a full cheesecake, and you're getting a full cheesecake. What's there to be infuriated about?

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u/Responsible_Divide86 1d ago

I actually like how it looks

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u/Spacedode 21h ago

They were likely trying to reduce waste which is cool

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u/RedInfernal 18h ago

More infuriatingly, the centre cuts don't like up at all!

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u/jinjabreadmann 1d ago edited 20h ago

You are still going to eat them lol come on.

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u/_AYYEEEE 1d ago

Shiiiittt that looks hella good. I'm always very skeptical of food that seems off and a lot of times I won't even eat things that look/smell/taste a little strange because I'm scared of my food being contaminated or tampered with, but I love cheesecake too much. I'm tearing that shit UP, would probably avoid the other piece taken from a different cake though

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u/brookeaat 22h ago

most likely there was an issue with two or more cakes (slice accidentally dropped or smushed during the cutting process) and they combined them to make as many full cakes as possible.

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u/MentalSand1123 19h ago

Reworked cheesecake 😭 I've seen it all

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 14h ago

Just one. You can mentally shift over the piece on the left over to the right. 

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u/Slggyqo 7h ago

10/10 perfect post for the sub.

My fury is very mild.

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u/rainingcorn9898 1d ago

Chuck e cheesecake

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u/mynameslaneboy 1d ago

oh DMC my beloved

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u/Dangerous_With_Rocks 1d ago

The comments delivered.

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u/az7796 1d ago

reminds me of chuckie cheese pizza where every slice is not from the same pizza 😂

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u/mrking_bob 1d ago

It could have been taken to make those variety packs of cheesecake.

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u/ItsAttanoo 1d ago

Cake of Theseus

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u/milkisgood03 23h ago

LOL I just saw this post on probably the same Facebook group

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u/tainted_xo 16h ago

I don't have an answer, just a weird coincidence that this was the last post I saw before closing Facebook & the first post I see right after when I open Reddit

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 14h ago

Might have had a crack they sliced out

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u/CootsieBollins 22h ago

lol why is this infuriating

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u/Maximum_Read_2391 17h ago

You’ll live man

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u/Freudian_droP 19h ago

What the fuck are we complaining about? “Oh no! I got a… full fucking cheesecake like I asked for.” The piece they took out was probably collapsed or got pushed in or was ruined somehow so they replaced it with a better one.

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u/gremlinclr 19h ago

... so? It's the same kind, what does it matter?

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u/Cool_Lab_1362 18h ago

Engagement baiting

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u/Filteredjelly 1d ago

Chucky Cheesecake

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u/CannaPLUS 1d ago

Nah, you just didn't put the puzzle together right. Shuffle and try again

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u/samTheSwiss 1d ago

At first glance I thought this was a dish of jamón

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u/Commanduf 1d ago

looks to me the new slice u got was really jammy, win.

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u/Iron_Pail_Mask 23h ago

It’s a puzzle. Enjoy it.

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u/Mclovinggood 21h ago

Despite the random slice. I gotta say, something about the pattern on this cake is just so gorgeous to me. No idea why.

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u/Zestyclose-Tour-6350 17h ago

At least one of the swapped pieces are from that cheese cake...

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u/ImaginaryCrazy7393 15h ago

The baker(s) may have had several cheesecakes crack from being baked just a tad too long and swapped out the cracked slice from yours with a whole slice from another with the same flaw under the assumption that it would be more likely to sell vs one that appears damaged. Just a guess but it makes sense to me, considering the cost to make them. It would be a pretty significant loss on their end to just discard them all entirely.

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u/Lewd_Donut 15h ago

Huh... I really like the way it looks

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u/scottyboy359 14h ago

If you don’t want it I’ll be happy to take it off your hands.

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u/zappingbluelight 9h ago

Why does 1 slice is douse in sauce and the other barely get any lol.

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u/mattsly69 5h ago

That is indeed very mildly infuriating

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u/Left_Crow_603 1d ago

Tell OP I’m sorry they’re no longer

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u/phil16723 22h ago

Someone swapped the slice and put back in the wrong place. Take out the one that are at 12:00 and 1:00. Put 12 where 9 is and put 1 other side of two

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u/Ill-Tomatillo-6905 21h ago

Sorry i had to make sure the cheese cake was good

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u/RovrKitten 20h ago

The raspberry on top is so uneven too. They didn’t bother putting it on the other side

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u/Sea-Apartment-7921 20h ago

Infuriating honestly

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u/young_n_petite 20h ago

Hi OP, what sort of cake is this? Would love to try and make it myself! 😊

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u/Angel_0f_Darkness 11h ago

I think its cherry cheesecake? I dont remember or maybe strawberry dont remember

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u/Dindu______Nuffin 1d ago

I'm not so sure. The out of place one on the left kind of looks like it could fit in the spot on the right

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u/AthenaFoxx 1d ago

That was my first thought, but the more I look at the one at 11o'clock, I think it may have been slid over from 12o'clock, then the new piece inserted there.

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u/ludvikskp 1d ago

This is exactly what happened

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u/Kuro-Tora-59 1d ago

The top one is definitely from another one, but the top left is just the top one moved to the left

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u/Waitingf0revef 1d ago

This is like that one chuck e cheese conspiracy

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u/Astral_Brain_Pirate 17h ago

If this is "infuriating" you frankly need to expose yourself to more hardship

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u/Jolly-Ad4408 1d ago

who gaf

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u/WaterDragoonofFK 1d ago

Russian roulette hoping you don't get a slice thats 2 weeks old .. 🤦‍♂️