{"id":1389,"date":"2010-12-04T00:04:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2011-01-02T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T21:55:18","slug":"euro-strawberry-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Euro Strawberry Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHappy December Junkies! This run of snacks is brought to you by an unknown benefactor on campus. While going home with oft Guinea Pigs Badmovie and LunarGeography, we spied a 20 dollar bill lying on the ground. LG, being the most socially advanced of the group, asked a passer by if they had dropped the money. I was too busy looking at the $20 and thinking “Holy crum! A TWENTY dollar bill!” to really do the right thing and Badmovie was…doing whatever it was that Badmovie was doing. As it turned out, the passer by had not lost a 20 and there was no one else around so we pocketed the lonely bill and started to plan our fortune. At first it was going to dinner, then maybe a movie but then we all came to our senses and decided the Asian Snacks Gods had dropped us a 20 so we could go out and get more snacks.<\/p>\n

That we did because who wants to piss off the Snack Gods?<\/p>\n

Each of us chose a couple of snacks to review as well as a couple of snacks for snacking so there were a lot of snacks. My Second Favorite Asian Grocery Store has very good prices and the 20 went a long way. The first of the snacks is Euro Strawberry Cake which, after a fairly lengthy prologue, I’ll now get to reviewing.<\/p>\n

The cakes come individually wrapped in a box and when you open the individual wrapper, there is a profound olfactory smacking in the nose of strawberry Quick. My goodness are these strawberry. When I eventually came to after having been strawberried into a stupor, I noticed that the cakes looked like rounded Twinkies. They have a spongy yellow cake outer layer similar to Twinkies and the cake texture is pretty much the same. Twinkies might be a tad moister and a bit denser but other than that, Euro Cake could be the airier continental version of a Twinkie.<\/p>\n

In the center of the cake is a small dollop of strawberry cream which is much heavier than what you might find in a Twinkie (and also strawberry flavored). It is a strange texture that is thumpier than Twinkie cream but not as dense as pudding, not as sugary as frosting but airier than a ganache. I’d almost say that if you mixed whipped cream with frosting gel you might have what is inside a Euro Cake. It tastes of strawberries as imagined by Quick and also a tad of chemicals. Or perhaps it is the sponge cake that tastes a little manufactured. It’s hard to tell since the dollop of goo is very small compared to the amount of cake.<\/p>\n

Some of the Guinea Pigs liked these, some didn’t and some could take or leave them. I’m a little disappointed by the slight chemical taste and the small center of strawberry goo. Other than that, this is a pretty solid filled cake entity if you don’t mind the strawberry Quick flavor.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/a> of 3.5 wasabi peas<\/strong> out of a possible 5 wasabi peas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35-peas","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}