People need to have less cake at their birthday party. Feat Amanda Maryanna Gordon
Summary
Amanda Maryanna Gordon brings a birthday party economics lesson to Kareem: people need less cake. Way less. Her argument? It's supply and demand. Too much cake kills the hype, and nobody wants buttercream from Key Foods after shots of tequila. She's seen full cakes abandoned outside clubs. The solution is ice cream cake for smaller crowds because it melts, creating scarcity and turning dessert into the Hunger Games. Kareem loves it. They land on a formula: inviting 40 people? Get a cake for 20. It's anti-food waste, and it's genius.
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So, what's your take? People need to have less cake at their birthday party.
100% disagree. Less cake. I love cake. There's always too much cake. And I feel like it's a supply and a demand problem. Like cake is the resource, right? If there's too much supply, the demand goes low. You need to generate hype and scarcity around your birthday cake so more people want it.
That's actually pretty damn smart because one thing I've noticed about cakes at birthday parties is that they're never eaten. Especially like at a bar birthday party like nobody wants to chase a shot of tequila with like key foods buttercream cake.
I mean I would. I feel like the host and like their goons are always trying to boast it on you. They're like please like we cake we we need you to eat it. Did you get a like I don't want it. Half the people there are on OMIC. They don't have the appetite.
They don't have the appetite. I feel like it's child abuse. It's like you know that scene in Matilda with Mrs. Crunchville. That's how I feel when I'm at a birthday party and there's too much cake and they're like trying to get rid of it.
That's so funny, bro. They always come with a big cake. And then there's the annoying person who probably was associated with acquiring the cake. Yes.
And now their job is forcing everyone to eat the cake. And then you know what happens at the end of the party? What?
Anybody want to take cake home? No one wants to take one cake. I've seen a full cake be left outside the club.
Who brought cake to the club? The birthday person.
They brought cake to the club. Nobody ate it at the first location. So they like brought it in the mover.
So, you think that the solution to this is is just getting smaller cakes? Yeah, get a smaller cake. Also, by the way, get an ice cream cake because that melts, so it has to go. I had an ice cream cake at my birthday party. It was like the Hunger Games. People wanted my ice cream cake so bad. Like the losers. It's like it's sad, but it's cake. So, it's like you'll get over it, but like the people who get it will be really happy.
Yeah. Cuz they're like, I got the cake. Yeah.
So, I want to give everyone a formula out there. Like, if you're inviting 40 people to your birthday party, get a cake that will feed 20. You know what? 100% agree. I'm in. This is a anti-food waste take.