Talk:Upside-down cake

Cultural gap?
Is there a difference between a US-American and British upside-down cake? Maikel (talk) 15:54, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

What's so funny?
... about upside-down cakes that they are being ridiculed e. g. by Dad's Army? Maikel (talk) 15:54, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Is this vandalism?
An upside-down cake as a CHOKING HAZARD? This looks like vandalism and/or bullshit to me. Devil Master (talk) 08:51, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * If you attempt to eat it while upside down, as instructed by the article, it could well be considered a choking hazard. Lame Name (talk) 19:53, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

More information
We need:
 * Who invented it
 * Where it was invented
 * When it was invented
 * How it was invented

AmericanLeMans (talk) 03:56, 14 December 2010 (UTC)


 * http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/PineappleUpsideDownCake/: "The first recorded recipe for Pineapple Upside Down Cake

According to John Mariani's ( The Dictionary of American Food and Drink, Revised Edition, 1994), "The first mention in print of such a cake was in 1930, and was so listed in the 1936 Sears Roebuck catalog, but the cake is somewhat older." In Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads (1995), Sylvia Lovegren traces pineapple upside-down cake to a 1924 Seattle fund-raising cookbook...While rooting around in old women's magazines I found a Gold Medal Flour ad with a full-page, four-color picture of Pineapple Upside-Down Cake--a round cake with six slices of pineapple, candied red cherries, and a brown sugar glaze. The date: November 1925." --- American Century Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes of the 20th Century, Jean Anderson (p. 432)" http://trib.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/history-of-upside-down-cake-goes-way-back/article_e4da1df4-c915-562a-9162-3fd38ba9a7ef.html: "Upside-down technique existed prior to this in an apocryphal French apple pie, created in 1889 by two sisters, StÃ©phanie and Caroline Tatin, innkeepers in the Loire Valley. During the busy hunting season, one sister left a pan of apples and sugar on the stove cooking a bit too long. Instead of merely softening, the sugar caramelized and the apples braised in this caramel. With no time to think, StÃ©phanie cleverly popped a pastry crust on it, baked the whole thing, turned it out and served it." Robocon1 (talk) 18:32, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Dad's Army adding
I - and some others before me - had been adding a very nice Trivia line about Upside-down cakes often mentioned by Private Charles Gofrey in Dad's Army. It's been removed some times since it was first added, i hope it will stay now in this article, because it's a very nice adding and if you don't know the show, please watch it sometime. Thanks, Hans from the Netherlands. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.108.138.163 (talk) 19:37, 15 June 2017 (UTC)


 * As with everything in Wikipedia, the correct way to handle the situation would be to find a reliable source (see WP:RS for the definition of this piece of jargon) that supports its inclusion, and then include this as a reference. --JBL (talk) 22:22, 15 June 2017 (UTC)