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In the video today, we're looking at how the practice of women jumping out of cakes got
started.
Almost everyone has seen depicted the bizarre bachelor party tradition of a scantily-clad
woman jumping out of a giant cake.
It turns up most often in decades-old films, TV shows, and comics, but it still persists
today at lavish Vegas shindigs—though the cakes are now usually made of flimsy cardboard.
Younger folks may have first encountered the ritual via The Sims: House Party, in which
the player could buy a huge cake, then choose a command to hire an entertainer.
If you're thinking it's a tradition that dates back to the swanky cocktail-fueled,
pre-feminist Mad Men era, you're only partly correct- humans have been putting odd things
in their food for entertainment purposes for centuries.
No one threw a dinner party like the Ancient Romans did, and they may have been the first
to seriously combine food and entertainment; that is, the food often was also the entertainment.
Wealthy banquet-throwers tried to outdo one another with exotic dishes, serving up peacocks,
ostriches, dormice, and rare songbirds.
Stuffing one animal inside another was a particular delight, so that a guest might carve into
the belly of a cow to find an entire roasted pig inside.
Inside the pig?
A lamb, a rabbit, a chicken, and a mouse.
(Today this practice is still alive in this rather curious dish that starts with a camel
and works on down.)
Beyond cooked animals stuffed inside other animals, Petronius wrote of dishes staged
to make the animals appear as if they were still alive: fish arranged as if they were
literally swimming in a sea of sauce, and a rabbit with a fowl's wings attached, posed
to look like the mythical Pegasus.
Medieval royals continued the hosting of banquets so elaborate as to be almost grotesque, and
they, too, had a penchant for staging tableaux that made cooked animals appear to be in action.
Peacocks, for example, were seasoned and roasted, then arranged and decked out in their original
plumage.
Grilled roosters were dressed in miniature armor constructed of paper, and perched atop
a suckling pig, complete with jousting sword, as if ready to do battle.
Alcohol was set alight to create a fire-breathing effect from the mouths of unlikely creatures,
such as swans or fish.
The stereotypical apple that is so often thrust in the mouth of a roasted pig hails from this
era—seemingly an attempt to suggest activity, as if the animal were still living and casually
munching a bit of fruit.
The use of actual live animals was a natural evolution from all the mimicry.
The tradition of the entremet—a between-courses dish served more for entertainment than for
eating—was in full swing by the end of the Middle Ages, with wine fountains, castles
made of meat, and live actors and musicians rolled in on replicas of ships, re-enacting
scenes from recent history.
Living creatures, (especially birds and frogs) placed into giant pies became such a popular
entremet that a recipe features in an Italian cookbook from 1474.
Maestro Martino explains how to make a hole in the bottom crust of a pie, stuff it with
a smaller pie, and then:
" ...In the empty space that remains around the small pie, put some live birds, as many
as it will hold; and the birds should be placed in it just before it is to be served; and
when it is served before those seated at the banquet, you remove the cover above, and the
little birds will fly away.
This is done to entertain and amuse your company.
And in order that they do not remain disappointed by this, cut the small pie up and serve."
The trend continued into the 1600s, with famous families like the de Medicis surprising guests
with live birds in pastry crust for a wedding party.
Robert May, author of a 1660 British cookbook, describes how the birds would tend to flap
about and seek the light, extinguishing all the candles, and how the hopping frogs cause
the ladies to shriek, creating "a diverting Hurley-Burley amongst the Guests in the Dark!"
The phenomenon ultimately may have inspired the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence,"
in which four-and-twenty blackbirds are presented in a dish to the king.
Today the practice lives on, in a way, in the form of "pie birds"—small, ceramic
birds placed in pies to allow steam to escape.
Even though the live-bird pie trend ultimately fizzled out, some royals hardly missed it,
as they had already taken it to the next level.
At a banquet hosted by famed French engineer Philippe Le Bon, among the many ostentatious
entremets was an enormous meat pie containing a reported twenty-eight musicians, who played
as the giant crust was opened.
In 1626, the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham presented Charles I with a pie from which
emerged a dwarf.
Sir Jeffrey Hudson was given as a gift while he was still quite alive, though internet
stories continue to perpetuate the rumor that he met his demise by being baked in a pie.
By the 1800s, the humans buried in pastry seemed to be limited to attractive women,
as some of the most decadent parties of the era were those given by wealthy men to entertain
other important males while their wives stayed at home.
One of those hosts was Stanford White, a rich architect who threw a debauched dinner party
in New York City in 1895 for a gathering of other distinguished men (including illustrator
Charles Dana Gibson and inventor Nikola Tesla).
The feature attraction of the dinner party was an enormous pie, out of which, according
to famed model Evelyn Nesbit, popped a 15 or 16 year old beauty, Susie Johnson, wearing
only a piece of see-through gauze.
Along with the girl, Nesbit reported that there were "a lot of birds" that when Johnson
jumped out "flew all about the room."
Nesbit also later stated that, "I told Mr. White I had heard [later] he had ruined the
girl that night, but he only laughed."
Just a few years later, "The Pie Girl Dinner," as it came to be known, was front-page news
after White was murdered by the enraged husband of Evelyn Nesbit, the latter of which came
to be known as "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing."
White had reportedly raped the teenage Nesbit a few years before while she was unconscious
in his home after drinking champagne with him.
She then became White's mistress for about a year before breaking the relationship off
and later marrying the enormously wealthy Harry Thaw.
Thaw was supposedly none too pleased that Nesbit wasn't a virgin which he found out
while obsessively courting her.
When she told Thaw this, she also explained to him that she lost her virginity to White
when he raped her.
Ultimately this didn't stop Thaw's pursuit of Nesbit and after a lengthy courtship, she
gave in to Thaw's continual attempts to get her to marry him and the two wed.
However, Thaw now harbored extreme hatred towards White, culminating in Thaw murdering
him after yelling something to the effect of "You've ruined my wife!"
(There are conflicting accounts from witnesses as to whether he said "wife" or "life" before
shooting White.)
The whole country read the details of the "Pie Girl Dinner" as transcripts came out
of the first case of the 20th century the media referred to as "The Trial of the Century."
While this may not have been the first time a wealthy man had thought to have a girl jump
out of some large food item, it certainly popularized the practice.
After reading about it in the news, it didn't take long for regular folks to think that
their parties would be better with a woman inside some sort of baked good.
By the 1950s, it became downright mainstream for bachelor parties, office wingdings, and
conventions to feature an attractive woman in a giant cake—usually in a skimpy bathing
suit, or completely nude, depending on the audience and event.
The cakes were decidedly real, though you can find modern (otherwise reputable) sources
that mistakenly believe otherwise, perhaps thanks to today's cardboard recreations.
For instance, an AP newspaper article in 1975 interviewed a longtime San Francisco baker
who made his living charging $2,000 a pop to construct elaborate layered confections
with empty cylinders inside, just large enough to hide an exotic dancer.
(A cake jumper could make as much as $50 at the time, about $217 in today's dollars, the
article claims.)
The girls-in-cakes trend was so pervasive that it's no surprise it turned up so often
in popular media of the time.
In Some Like It Hot, the 1959 Marilyn Monroe vehicle, a huge cake is rolled into a party,
out of which emerges a thug with a machine gun, who begins mowing down the guests as
they sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow."
Noted crime writer Lawrence Block published "Stag Party Girl" in the aptly-named Guy
magazine in 1965, in which a stripper is shot almost as soon as she emerges from the icing.
A 1955 cartoon panel depicts two chefs in a kitchen, while one attempts to cook a young
lady in a huge pot.
"No, no, no, Alphonse!" says the other chef.
"She goes in after you bake the cake."
By the end of the 1970s, the popularity of women inside cakes faded as equal rights gained
steam- with more and more women in the workplace, scantily clad women in cakes were less welcome
at company functions and other such events, leaving only the occasional appearance at
bachelor parties as the last vestige of
this curious practice.
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