I sometimes remember this, but then I get to the store and a cheesecake is $17 and I suddenly remember I don't actually need it that bad

https://xkcd.com/418/

Then you do it, and your body punishes you for it this time, instead of your parents.

But can you consume the cake without suffering consequences?

Ah but you see I bike there, which means that it is healthy! Fitness is my passion.

I can do it without a car.

As an adult I've had enough stomach aches, and gained enough belly fat, and developed enough of a palette, to viscerally dislike eating lots of cake.

Tried this once while watching Matilda when I got to that scene. Paused it and went to the store and bought a gallon of milk, then stopped by portillos and got a chocolate cake.

Later that night I had big regrets

One time I was promised cake if I just did a series of tests on a prototype, though the tests seemed more like they were testing my problem solving skills rather than the prototype itself.

Anyways, the cake was great, so delicious and moist.

It was overall a very rewarding experience that I recommend everyone sign up for.

This is a dangerous realization for some.

Nice try cake making industry.

what's the relevance of the car. who is selling cakes in their car? do they eat the cake in the car? is this an american thing?

Pouring one out for all the folks out there who have to get in a car to go to a bakery

Forgetting is sometimes a survival instinct

As a kid, you have the time but not the money.

As an adult, you have the money but not the time.

Except the beetus demon.

I sometimes want to do this but then I realize I can make a better cake myself.

I had a patient who almost died from acute pancreatitis after eating 3 pounds of fudge in one sitting. So your pancreas may not stop you from buying or eating the cake, it can definitely stop you from doing it twice.

You could make one too.

When I was kid, I loved bananas, but my mom wouldn't buy them because she felt they were too expensive, so bananas became even more rare and precious to me.

I grew up, got my own place, and did my own grocery shopping. I remember walking through the grocery store, and passing the bananas, thinking they were too expensive, but I noticed they were 69 cents a pound. That didn't seem so much, so I weighed a few, and it was less that 2 pounds. I could buy a bunch of bananas for $1.50! That wasn't so much!

So I bought the bananas. That was many years ago, and I still buy bananas almost every shopping trip. That preciousness still exists though. Whenever I eat a banana, it feels like I'm eating a candy bar.

Every time I see this meme, I get sad that there's nobody selling cake in my car. But also glad, because why would they be in there?

Can also bake one.

As an adult, I can't stand cake and refuse to eat it no matter whose birthday or wedding or whatever it is, and I don't care who I piss off.

The death of innocence is reaching the point where you could do that, but it wouldn’t even make you happy because of health reasons.

Bypass that drama and eat the icing straight from the jar.

I buy myself a 8 inch cake one day a year. My birthday.

I'm in my 40s. But I love cake. But cake not great for health.

1 cake is acceptable.

Huh …. Then I remember all those cakes I made as a kid with my moms help were so much better than crap from a grocery, but I no longer have time or practice to do that

This is one of the best parts of adulthood. And drinking out of the milk carton. Often these things go together. 😉