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What happened to yellow cake with chocolate icing?

Posted by vickyb, February 7, 2007

In the old days (late 1970s, perhaps early 1980s) any self-respecting coffee shop in New York City sold white or yellow cake with chocolate icing by the slice. Every coffee shop counter sported a two- or three-layer white cake with chocolate icing under a plastic dome. Nowadays one finds only chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Why did my favorite coffee shop dessert disappear?

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