In some regions, cake is synonymous with cake.
A cake is a dough made of flour and other ingredients that is cooked over low heat and has a rounded shape. In any case, the use of the word varies depending on the country.
In Argentina , Bolivia , Chile , and other South American nations, a cake is a sweet pastry that is baked in the oven and is usually filled with layers of some type of creamy confection . Cakes are used in ceremonies such as birthday parties and weddings.
Concept of cake according to the country
In this sense, cake is usually used as a synonym for tart , except in Argentina , where a tart is a smaller, flat cake, usually made with puff pastry.
In Mexico , a cake is a type of sandwich that is very characteristic of the country's fast food . The cakes can be filled with meat, ham, chicken, cheese, sausages or seafood, for example, and include condiments such as mayonnaise or mustard.
For the Spanish, a cake is a type of sponge cake or a type of flattened bread . On the other hand, Argentines and Uruguayans eat fried cake , which is a sheet of dough that is fried in fat and made with flour , salt, water and fat.
For Mexicans, a cake is a type of sandwich.
Other uses of the notion
Leaving food aside, we call a slap in the face or a blow or fall a cake: “Juan hit the car and is hospitalized.”
However, we cannot ignore the fact that cake is also the term used to define the drunkenness that a specific person is experiencing. Thus, a clear example of this meaning would be the following: “What a cake Juan was wearing when he left the nightclub in the wee hours of the morning.”
We can also mention that cake is, in certain regions, short for tortillera , an insulting way of referring to a lesbian .
Expressions with the term cake
In the same way, we must highlight the existence of a series of expressions that we use in colloquial and daily language that include the concept that we are now in charge of analyzing. One of those would be the one that says “eat cake.” It is an adverbial phrase with which what we want to express is that we do not understand what is being said.
A meaning of the latter that is closely related to that of another of the adverbial phrases that make use of the term. More precisely, we are referring to “no cake” , which we could say is synonymous with “nothing” . A phrase that can serve as an example to understand it is the following: “Manuel did not understand a single thing that the Science teacher explained in class.”
To all these expressions we should add one of very general use that we have surely all used at some point in our lives. It is specifically the one that says “not even half a cake” . With it, what we want to make clear is that someone is weak. In this way we can use it as in this example: “Pedro doesn't even have half a cake, his opponent in the ring is going to defeat him quickly.”