History PlayingWith / FakeFood

** Charles undergoes a FaceHeelTurn [[DisproportionateRetribution because of the fake cake]]. As a villain, he later [[TheBadGuyWins murders Alice, Bob, and]] [[KillEmAll most of the other characters]].

* '''Deconstructed''': The problem with FakeFood is that [[CaptainObvious Styrofoam is a vastly different substance from actual cake]]. What's pictured in the magazine is likely to be ''very'' different when translated into actual cake. Not many prospective buyers know this, and that can lead to disappointment and disillusionment.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

** Charles undergoes a FaceHeelTurn because of the fake cake. As a villain, he later [[TheBadGuyWins murders Alice, Bob, and]] [[KillEmAll most of the other characters]].
** [[TwinSwitch As the result of a mix-up]], the ''real'' cake was left out in the heat while the ''fake'' one was refrigerated in the kitchen. [[KillEmAll The wedding guests all die of food poisoning]], and when AliceAndBob see the corpses, they think that their friends were murdered.
* '''Deconstructed''': The problem with FakeFood is that [[CaptainObvious Styrofoam is a vastly different substance from actual cake]]. What's pictured in the magazine is likely to be ''very'' different when translated into actual cake. Not many prospective buyers know this, and that can lead to disappointment and disillusionment.
* '''Reconstructed''': The pastry chef makes every effort to make the cakes he/she actually makes look as good as the ones in the magazine, and explains to customers that while he/she will put in a lot of work to make it look great, the "cake" illustrated in the magazine is made of Styrofoam and therefore does not look exactly like the real thing.

** Alternatively, Carrie and her team make a completely real and edible cake (albeit on a smaller scale), and eat it after the photoshoot. That way, the photoshoot showcases what she can actually do and what the cakes actually look like, but the cake doesn't cost too much to make or go to waste after the photoshoot.

** [[ComicalOverreacting Charles kills Alice and Bob over the fake cake]].
* '''Played For Drama''':

* '''Unparodied''': AliceAndBob talk about the cake as if it were "The Emperor's New Cake", but it turns out it's the real thing after all.

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* '''Exaggerated''': The actual cake on display at Alice and Bob's wedding is nothing but Styrofoam ''painted'' to look like it's iced.

* '''Averted''':
** See "Defied"
** The bakery or pastry chef relies on word-of-mouth advertising only.

** AliceAndBob have a cake on display during the reception that is 100% real cake. This cake is eventually cut and served. If the wedding is outdoors and food poisoning is a risk, they may omit the display part until just minutes before the cake-cutting.

* '''Conversed''': "Look closely. That cake is fake." "Of course it's fake! If they left it outside during Alice and Bob's weeding, people would come down with food poisoning."

** [[TwinSwitch As the result of a mix-up]], the ''real'' cake was left out in the heat while the ''fake'' one was refrigerated in the kitchen. [[KillEmAll Everyone at the wedding dies of food poisoning.]]

'''Basic Trope''': Items that ''look'' like real food are used as a display to ''sell'' the real food.

* '''Exaggerated''': ''The actual cake on display at Alice and Bob's wedding'' is nothing but Styrofoam painted to look like it's iced.
* '''Downplayed''': A wedding cake displayed in a bridal magazine uses fondant, while the real one being advertised would have buttercream icing, or could if the couple wished.

** AliceAndBob are having an outdoor wedding in summer or tropical weather. In order to save money,or to prevent a buttercream-frosted stacked-layer cake from falling over and/or guests coming down with food poisoning from leaving it in the heat, Alice has opted for a "rental cake": The display cake is mostly Styrofoam, with the exception of the bottom layer, which is cut. After the cake-cutting, the "cake" is wheeled back into the kitchen "to be served", and replaced with sheet cake in the specified flavor and style.
* '''Inverted''': The bridal magazine features a picture of a real cake, either made just for the occasion, or the pastry chef opted to have his/her work done for Alice's wedding displayed in the magazine.

* '''Double Subverted''':

** AliceAndBob have a cake on display during the reception (and eventually served) that is 100% real cake. If the wedding is outdoors and food poisoning is a risk, they may omit the display part until just minutes before the cake-cutting.

* '''Conversed''': "Look closely. That cake is fake."

* '''Deconstructed''': The problem with FakeFood is that [[CaptainObvious Styrofoam is a vastly different substance from actual cake]]. What's pictured in the magazine is likely to be ''very'' different when translated into actual cake. Not many prospective buyers know this, and that can lead to disappointment and disillusionment.
* '''Reconstructed''': The pastry chef makes every effort to make the cakes he/she actually makes look as good as the ones in the magazine, and explains to customers that while he/she will put in a lot of work to make it look great, the "cake" illustrated in the magazine is made of Styrofoam and therefore does not look exactly like the real thing.

* '''Exaggerated''': ''The actual cake at Alice and Bob's wedding'' is nothing but fondant-covered Styrofoam.
* '''Downplayed''': A wedding cake displayed in a bridal magazine uses fondant while the real one being advertised would have buttercream icing, or could have that if the couple wished.
* '''Justified''':

** In order to save money,or to prevent a buttercream-frosted stacked-layer cake from falling over and/or guests coming down with food poisoning from leaving it in the summer or tropical heat at the outdoor wedding, Alice has opted for one of those rent-a-cake things: The display cake is mostly Styrofoam (with the exception of the bottom layer for the cake-cutting), and then the "cake" is wheeled back into the kitchen "to be served" and replaced with sheet cake in the specified flavor and style.

* '''Lampshaded''': "That's no cake! It's just Styrofoam covered in fondant!" "Alice must have ordered a fake cake."

** AliceAndBob have a cake on display during the reception (and eventually served) that is 100% real cake. If the wedding is outdoors, and they are concerned, they may omit the display part until just minutes before the cake-cutting.

* '''Deconstructed''': The problem is, [[CaptainObvious Styrofoam is a vastly different substance than actual cake]]. What's pictured in the magazine is likely to be ''very'' different when translated into actual cake. Not many prospective buyers know this, and that can lead to disappointment and disillusionment.
* '''Reconstructed''': The pastry chef makes every effort to make the cakes he/she actually makes look as good as the ones in the magazine, and explains to customers that while he/she will put in a lot of work to make it look great, that it may not look 100% like the ones in the magazines.

** Bob bites the fake cake and asks Alice, "What's wrong with this stupid cake?"
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice has a {{Bridezilla}} meltdown when she sees that the cake doesn't look ''quite'' as pretty as the one in the picture.

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* '''Exaggerated''': When Alice orders the cake for the wedding, the actual cake is mostly fondant-covered Styrofoam.

* '''Lampshaded''': "This isn't cake! This is Styrofoam covered in fondant!"

* '''Discussed''': "This doesn't look like the one in the magazine..."
* '''Conversed''': "Well of course it doesn't look ''exactly'' like the one in the bridal magazines; those are Styrofoam; this is real cake."

Back to FakeFood

* '''Enforced''': See "Justified"

* '''Invoked''': Carrie's Cakes is taking out an advertisement in ''{{Bridezilla}} Magazine'', to showcase her wedding cakes and hopefully get business from brides-to-be (and grooms-to-be)... But she doesn't want to spend all that time and money making a cake that no one's actually going to eat and will probably just wind up in the trash after the photoshoot.
* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Played For Laughs''': The cakes Carrie makes are ''exactly'' like the Styrofoam cakes in the magazine... Because Carrie is a CordonBleughChef and couldn't bake her way out of a paper bag!

* '''Downplayed''': A wedding cake displayed in a bridal magazine uses fondant while the real one being advertised would have buttercream icing.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Parodied''': [[TheEmperorsNewClothes "It looks like Styrofoam, but it's actually the most delicious and moist cake in the world! Only fools will think it's Styrofoam!"]]

* '''Invoked''': Carrie's Cakes is taking out an advertisement in ''{{Bridezilla}} Magazine'', to showcase her wedding cakes and hopefully get business from brides-to-be (and grooms-to-be)...but she doesn't want to spend all that time and money making a cake that no one's actually going to eat and will probably just wind up in the trash after the photoshoot.

* '''Played For Laughs''': The cakes Carrie makes are ''exactly'' like the Styrofoam cakes in the magazine...because Carrie is a CordonBleughChef and couldn't bake her way out of a paper bag!

'''Basic Trope''': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: items that ''look'' like real food are used as a display to ''sell'' the real food.

* '''Basic Trope''': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: items that ''look'' like real food are used as a display to ''sell'' the real food.
* '''Played Straight''': A wedding cake displayed in a bridal magazine is little more than Styrofoam covered in fondant.

* '''Justified''': The picture in the magazine is only an advertisement for a bakery, a caterer with a pastry chef on the team, etc.; it's just not worth making an actual cake (which costs more) that no one's actually going to eat just to take a few pictures of it.
** Cakes are fragile (particularly chocolate cakes and/or cakes frosted with buttercream frosting), and the hot lights of a photography studio could result in the cake melting and falling over, dyes running, etc.
** In order to save money,or to prevent a buttercream-frosted stacked-layer cake from falling over and/or guests coming down with food poisoning from leaving it in the summer or tropical heat at the outdoor wedding, Alice has opted for one of those rent-a-cake things: The display cake is mostly Styrofoam (with the exception of the bottom layer for the cake-cutting), and then the "cake" is wheeled back into the kitchen "to be served" and replaced with sheet cake in the specified flavor and style.

* '''Subverted''': The fake cake appears alongside other foodstuffs on display at the wedding, and AliceAndBob cut the cake together.

* '''Double Subverted''': But they only cut through the bottom layer, the only part that was actual cake and not Styrofoam. The cake served to their guests is sheet cake, back in the kitchen.

* '''Deconstructed''': The problem is, [[CaptainObvious Styrofoam is a vastly different substance than actual cake]]. What's pictured in the magazine is likely to be ''very'' different when translated into actual cake. Not many prospective buyers know this, and that can lead to disappointment and disillusionment.
* '''Reconstructed''': The pastry chef makes every effort to make the cakes he/she actually makes look as good as the ones in the magazine, and explains to customers that while he/she will put in a lot of work to make it look great, that it may not look 100% like the ones in the magazines.

* '''Averted''': See "Defied"
** The bakery or pastry chef relies on word-of-mouth advertising only.
* '''Enforced''': See "Justified"

* '''Defied''': Carrie takes pictures of the finished cakes ''just'' before they are put on display, and keeps them in a portfolio, so that couples will look at them and see ''exactly'' what kind of work she can do. She submits a few pictures to the magazine to be used in the ad.

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice has a {{Bridezilla}} meltdown when she sees that the cake doesn't look ''quite'' as pretty as the one in the picture.

** In order to save money, Alice has opted for one of those rent-a-cake things: The display cake is mostly Styrofoam (with the exception of the bottom layer for the cake-cutting), and then the "cake" is wheeled back into the kitchen "to be served" and replaced with sheet cake in the specified flavor and style.

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* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Parodied''':

* '''Averted''':

* '''Invoked''': Carrie's Cakes is taking out an advertisement in {{Bridezilla}} Magazine, to showcase her wedding cakes and hopefully get business from brides-to-be (and grooms-to-be)...but she doesn't want to spend all that time and money making a cake that no one's actually going to eat and will probably just wind up in the trash after the photoshoot.

** Alternatively, Carrie and her team make a completely real and edible cake (albeit on a smaller scale), and eat it after the photoshoot.