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life is a cheesecake. a study.

B recently found out about an (old?) hungarian expression which basically translates to “life is a cheesecake”. having little to no knowledge of hungarian language and folklore, we will try, by means of this blog post, to analyze the implications of this statement and, if possible, to demonstrate its validity.
because, here in the neverlands, we tend to believe that life is indeed a cheesecake.

before we begin, it’s safer to assume that the author doesn’t have much experience with either of the notions. she was granted however, at least one attempt at each of them during her previous studies. and while research is still ongoing on the life part, the cheesecake has proven to be a successful experiment and definitely worth further investigation.

now, after a thorough exploration of publications treating the current subject, we managed to extract three major ideas:

one young icelandic researcher created an extended model of the aforementioned claim. the new “life is a cheesecake – eat until you puke” model seems to state that life, or better yet, too much life can be intoxicating. but since you can’t really throw away perfectly good cheesecake, and only a very small number of individuals will actually try to stop living, intoxication is an expected side-affect. the majority of the population will probably settle for nausea, which still means you’re on the right track and big things are happening (feel free to consult previous work on this topic).

another distinguished colleague took on a more practical approach - she put together a cake with all the inherent cheesecake properties, but with the additional “hello panda” biscuits on top. the results of her experiment are still highly controversial and including the japanese biscuits into the formula opened a whole new line of study.

perhaps the most complete work so far started from the “life is like a box of chocolates” postulate and continued with a thoughtful comparison of the two models. the main conclusion was that since cheesecake aims at being more than chocolate and chocolate never aims at being more than cheesecake, we can safely say that life is more than a box a chocolates. which also means that life is less about randomness and more about tasty treats than we might have thought.

also, life tastes a lot better with chocolate sprinkles on top.