To be outraged at the size of this cake? (Light hearted)

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My supermarket shop has just been delivered and includes this cake which supposedly serves six people. I am not a big eater but even I find that idea laughable. As you can see it is smaller than my (small) hand and my phone!
I weighed it (no weight indication on the packet for good reason) and it weighs 228g, so each 1/6th slice would be 38g. I guess if I had elves or borrowers coming over that would constitute a reasonable portion, but in the real world I think offering people a teeny weeny slice like that would get me a repuation as a right tightwad!
Luckily it's just me and DH this weekend so it will be fine for the two of us, but it just made me laugh.

the shop pretends it is a cake for 6, so they can say things like "Healthy Eating!" "Slimmer's Cake!" "Only 20 calories per portion!"

What are the nutritional stats, OP? I'm wondering if they've based the portions on a calorie/sugar count?!

Looks similar in size to the small pug cake we looked at for our 11 year olds birthday last weekend.

We'd has his big brother's birthday 3 days before and had gone for 2 smaller cakes rather than one big one. Bought a birthday cake with icing balloons on for older child, removed balloons, made batman icing decorations, all good.

Went to shops for other cake, DS3 loves pugs so looked at Pabs the Pug cakes in Asda (used the big one for DS4s birthday last year). They serve 16, so looked for smaller one, it was supposed to serve 6 people, it was tiny. Actually felt insulted by it, so went for the cupcakes instead (icing was disgusting but when he saw them he loved them and they did get eaten, just not by everyone.)

I think, as with a lot of things, part of it is that manufacturers are reducing portion sizes rather than putting the prices up more. (Has been mentioned before on MN about things like clothes washing liquids going down in bottle size rather than up in price etc.)

Sadly I looked up a cake portion size and they reckon around 3oz or 84g so it’s 2 generous or 3 small portions for me

I think niceandwarm is probably right. Quoting a tiny portion stats make it look like a relatively healthy treat but IRL not many people would cut a slice that small.

I always laugh at the number of servings on cakes!

Well I just went and looked at the box for a cake I bought recently - a GF ready made cake from our local Aussie supermarket (a novelty here!) because I thought that was on the small side and would push to serve to more than 6 people - but even that cake is 500g!
Yours is ridiculously small for 6 people, unless they're tiny people on a diet!

That's not a 6 person cake. No way. 2 perhaps.

400calories for half of the cake - what people are calling "a portion" - of a treat item. That is a lot of calories for a cheap cake fix.

It's to keep the fat portion of the traffic light in the amber section. They know damn well you're going to eat half of it, but eating half of it puts ALL the nutrient portions in the red

That reminds me of the cakes you get from birds bakery,tiny.

Yep, that's the answer!

It's like the way they call big bags of crisps "share packets". Er. Ok then.... 🙈

Wow. The café I was in yesterday was serving single portions larger than that.

I'm always miffed at the size of ready meals, but when I look at the info of the packet its a third of an adult's daily requirements. I think we (well I, certainly) have portion distortion. Or it's because the ready meal is full of crap in lieu of flavour

That’s a cupcake!

Slightly embarrassed to admit I sliced dd2's 3rd birthday cake into portions that were about half that size for everyone. DH said that's big didn't stop him eating it or having a bun after though and he doesn't have a sweet tooth, unlike the rest of us.

I notice in an old cook book that recipes for things like a Victoria sponge or e.g. a lemon meringue pie, give quantities for a 7 inch - i.e. barely 18 cm - cake tin or pie plate. Were people just less greedy, a lot more frugal, or what?

Both, I think - but then it's probably natural that the generation who'd lived through rationing would feel this way

It also occurs to me that this is one of the problems with online shopping. If you saw such a tiddly cake on a shelf you'd laugh and leave it, but it's not always so easy to tell from a photo and many would perhaps read "serves 6", fail to probe any further and expect something very different

Reckon I could snort that whole up one nostril!

But it does make sense when you look at other "cakes" like a mini-roll 27g or a Kipling country slice 30g, Angel slice 33g. These are portioned individually.

Wouldn't dream of scoffing back 3 of them (or half of that cake in the OP).

DD's 1st birthday cake said serves 18.. DD (1 obviously), DS (2), DH, my parents and I polished 3/4 of it off in one sitting

We're not massive cake eaters! Honest!!

My 2 year old would eat the OP's cake in one go.