Marble cake is a symbol of foolish compromise.
At the bakery, marble cake is the majority choice of people ordering cakes for special occasions. Very few people actually like marble cake, but the thinking is that since some people like chocolate and since some people like white, and since two cakes would be excess, marble is the logical middle ground.
No.
People who like chocolate cake get annoyed at the presence of white in the marble cake slice on the plate before them. People who like white cake get annoyed at the defilement of chocolate in their cake. And marble cake neither denotes the simplicity of white or the decadence of chocolate, but merely says “I’m a compromise that befits no situation.”
Few people are die-hard marble cake fans.
Marble cake is neither elegant nor desired. It makes no one happy and, in a strange way, solves the problem of fearing the offense of one group by angering or annoying both groups by trying to make them both happy.
Tomorrow is election day.
American politics is all marble cake, except most politicians seem to have lost their marbles.
