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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you want is the *real* multilayered cake: Dobostorte.

Smith Island is an invented internet meme that didn't exist before 2004. [/quote]

Smith Island itself or the cake?  Just trying to gauge what level of internet conspiracy theory nonsense we are dealing with here.[/quote]

I don't doubt there was a local tradition for multilayered cakes in Smith Island, but as a "state cake" and internet meme it didn't really become a known thing in the rest of the state till around 2000 or afterwards. I grew up in Baltimore and a fairly traditional "Maryland family" that was all into crabcakes and crab imperials and terrapin soup, and never heard of Smith Island cakes until it burst on the scene 20 some years ago. If there was a cake associated with Maryland it would have been the Lady Baltimore cake, even if it was the invention of a Charleston tea room.

The concept of the Smith Island cake isn't unique. I've had the same kinds of cakes in Germany and Austria.[/quote]

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