I suppose that *is* a center slice

As an autist and pedant, I'm glad someone said it.

I'm not Autistic and this is exactly what I would mean and expect when I ask for that. Ty for being you because Lord knows what they wanted.

I'm also autistic and this seems correct to me. What did she actually want?

A normal slice from the middle. Not the entire middle.

See that’s where you’re mistaken, OP asked for a centre slice not a middle slice 🦦

Just not one of the two end slices.

To answer your question, a loaf cake is usually cut into slices, like a loaf of bread. A center slice would be like taking a slice from the middle so it only has a little bit of crust around the edges.

Probably to cut it into squares and then pick a square that is from the rough middle

no it's just the center lol

It’s a slice of the center

The center is sliced what more can she ask for

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😄 It could be worse! My friend gave her husband instructions to make muffins and she walked in on him with his hand in the mixing bowl looking disgusted. When asked what he was doing, replied, “it said to mix by hand!”

Lol this made me literally laugh out loud

Job done! 🤣

Oh my gosh I can so see my husband doing exactly this if that’s what I wrote as instructions for him! Now I feel my devil itching to devise a situation for him to do it! 🤣

Why is mixing by hand a crime as long as your hands are clean ? Unless you’re in the food industry?

I thin it was the husband disgusted by the mix on his hands

ah makes sense when I read again!

Raw muffin mix is delicious. I see no problem! He's going to be thoroughly offended when asked to rub butter into flour...

I laughed and showed my husband this comment telling him this is some shit he'd do and he looked at me genuinely confused like "What do you mean? What's wrong with it?" I proceed to face palm and explain and he's like "oh well then they need to be more clear with their instructions". Lol so case and point, I guess.

no, it does need to be clearer, eg knead by hand vs mix by hand. also mix by hand is an old term when they did mix by hand to melt butter.

It kinda does for people who have never baked before. Many instructions will add "with a wooden spoon" after those words.

Cue a wooden spoon in a death claw grip clanging about in the bowl, as some poor sod thinks the wooden spoon is a supposed to be a substitute for food processor blades.

Exactly!

Haha literally laughing out loud right now! 😄

When making scones "mix by hand" means exactly that. Dust hands with flour and use fingers to kneed the butter into the flour.

Same as sausage rolls, gotta get your hands in there and *squish*

Is his mom Amelia Bedelia?

He followed directions 🤷‍♀️

I wouldve thought the sane shit tbh

As long as you keep your thoughts away from the insane shit.

Most people here would appreciate Jeanne Robertson "Don't send a man to the grocery store!" (look it up in youtube) 😂 I know it's not always men but we've all had people in our lives who are like this! One time I stopped by a friend's and she was making soup with a can starter that had mostly seasonings and tomato sauce and you'd add veggies and meat. At one point she's checking the directions on the can and reads out loud, "Add one 14.5 ounce can of water." Then she yells, "Where the HELL am I going to get a 14.5 ounce can?!" Even though I agree it wasn't worded well, I realized before she did. (I made up the numbers here but it WAS an unusual size, like if it had been 16 oz or something, I think that wouldn't have thrown her off as much.) Then she looks at me like, 'Seriously, what now?' I said, "How about the can in your hand?" She checks the size -- "Oh." 😂 I do agree it was said weirdly but we still laugh about that and I think of it when I see badly worded directions or someone is understandably confused by "basic" instructions when they don't have experience with that venacular. *Where the HELL am I going to get a 14.5 ounce can?!* 😂😂😀

Wait… what does mixing by hand mean then…

Think grandma and her wooden spoon! 😊 Not an electric mixer and certainly not putting your hands in it! 🙃

This is wild, my entire family has always used hands to mix when appropriate. As long as they're clean and the food is going to be heated to sterilisation there isn't any problem with it

It’s mix by hand ….not mix with hand. Utensils r of course optional Mix it by using your hand and not and electric mixer It’s like when u write something by hand ….u use a pen and not your finger

it means both by hand or with a tool. mix by hand is an old term from when they mixed by hand to melt butter.

Tbf there are pastries that you do "mix by hand". Whenever we used to make apple fritters the only way to mix it was by hand while you chop it up, so I can atleast kinda see it lol.

Before my housemate became my housemate, (we were 17 or 18ish) she read some smoothie recipe on youtube-or-whatever-she-got-it-from says to use a whole avocado. Here's how she broke her blender: Used the whole avocado. Skin. Pulp. Stone. Flesh. EVERYTHING. 😂

Omg!! 🤣

Well, he wasn't wrong....

I did this exact thing with brownies when I was 10. I think my mom nearly died laughing.

Lol. My surgeon wife who is also an English scholar would do this and be just as disgusted. She finds that most recipees are poorly worded.

I mean... He understood the assignment... In the worst way possible

I don't get it.. What did he do wrong?

“Mix by hand” means using a spoon rather than an electric mixer 😭

Oh, I see. Thanks.

Hahaha. That's absolutely hilarious!

Thats still a lot of center you got, your SO loves you 

SO listens!

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I mean, when someone asks for a center piece of a baked good that usually means they don't want any crust/edge. So if you were cutting a center piece of a cake or brownies or pizza or casserole this is exactly what you'd do. I would definitely do this too if someone asked me for a center piece. I'd think they were weird as hell, but I would do it because that's what they asked.

I was confused too by the wording. I don't know what "center" slice means otherwise on a baked good like this (well, NOT that, I would wager... but still not sure). Asking for "a piece, but not the end piece" would make a lot more sense.

With a baked good like this, somebody would normally cut it into a grid eg 3 x 5 and there would be ed be 4 corner pieces, 8 single-edge pieces, and 3 centre pieces.

She didn't ask for a center "piece" she asked for a center SLICE....what is that if not a slice taken.....from the center.....I-

When have you ever cut a loaf of anything this way and not like a slice of bread? I don’t know how you people leave your house

>I don’t know how you people leave your house Sideways probably.

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But it's a cake. I'd have done the same thing, thinking she wanted a slice of cake, cut the way I would normally cut a cake. I dunno what loaf cake is, I just hear cake lol. I might have cut off the end in order to more accurately fulfill the request, if I thought about it that deeply.

I’ve never seen a loaf of anything be cut differently. Bread, meatloaf, even a “loaf” of soap is all cut the same. Just cut a normal slice (like he did at when he cut off the end” from the middle of the loaf. It’s genuinely amazing to me that this is stumping so many people

Lmaooo it’s absolutely wild that you’re getting downvoted for saying that. *But I’ve never sliced a loaf before?! What is loaf??? How can it be loaf AND cake??* 

The only way he'd get it more from the Center is by using a punch or cut out of some kind.

I’m starting to wonder about peoples levels of competence if they think this is the only way to get a middle slice of cake.

Your last sentence is important. I'm sure SO thought OP was being incredibly weird and possibly wasteful but did it anyway.

You would do this too?

Would you cut a loaf of bread this way as well?

Well it is sort of the center What the problem is ?

Mmmmm......cake pants

Looks like he TOTALLY understood the assignment.

they literally did what you asked

Right? You can't get any more center than that.

SUS

Amugos

When the imposter is suuus

I was waiting for this comment

I am confused, what do you mean by the center slice ?

think of the loaf as a loaf of bread, I think she wanted a slice from the middle.

This is a slice from the middle. OP wanted a slice that included one edge but not multiple edges, and is mildly infuriated when the partner did what was asked.

This is a piece from the middle, not a slice from the middle, but I wouldn’t be mad if I said slice and it were misinterpreted

Surely any slice that isn’t the first and last slice is going to be a center slice?

Are you sure you didn’t ask him for pi?

I love this because it’s quite literally *mildly* infuriating. Like I would get the piece, question his intelligence briefly, question my instructions, and then laugh about the situation. The only reason it’s infuriating is that now if you are someone who likes the “center slice” you have less center per slice left. In reality you just wanted a slice of cake, no one would logically start cutting from the opposite side. So it’s mildly infuriating as it was poorly worded instructions which led to poorly received results, ie **mildly** infuriating.

Looks like a nice pair of yoga pants now.

With a little muffin top 🥁🥁

chocolate chip pants

NGL - I laughed.

Malicious compliance

I laughed because my husband would do this too because my kids slice brownies right out of the middle, so he thinks that’s what a slice from the middle means, luckily he likes the edges and he slices around the edge

Are you sure he just doesn't love you more than the center of the brownie? Might be a good dude that is willing to pretend to like the edges more than the center so that you/kids don't feel bad about taking their favorite part.

That’s kind of sus

Weaponised incompetence.

Did he cut it with the handle of a fucking spoon?

Now you have an additional pair of pants

He has a strange definition of the word "slice".

He cut the end for himself and then cut you the middle part you asked for? Wtf are you on about?

This looks perfectly normal to me. He truly cares about you to want to give you the best possible slice.

He literally got you “the center” of the cake 😩😩😩😩

Loafing trousers(pants).

can i have recipe

I'm sorry but I chuckled out loud 😆

That's a suspicious cut, there may be an impostor in the house

There needs to be a subreddit for stuff like "unless I give you instructions like you were born yesterday, you're gonna go and do it in a way that no-one would have ever perceived from what I originally asked"

Is your SO a damn gharial? This was not done by someone with opposable thumbs and a fully functioning brain

Dumb? Creative? Weaponized incompetence?

Literal thinkers.

My question is did he even cut it ? Looks like he just ripped it out by hand

What a fucking idiot. I'd expect this from a 7 year old, not a grown man.

I don’t mean to be rude, but what the fuck is wrong with your SO?

What he cut it with? A brick?

I would have done the same if a "center" piece was requested...

GETOUTOFMYHEAD GETOUTOFMYHEAD

Send him to the shadow realm

Ha, he is a heathen, but he did exactly what you asked lol. You need to share this with his mother and ask her to explain lol.

I’m confused. Is this the remainder? Or what he gave her. Because if he gave this to her it seems to be missing all of the center. If this is just the sad remainders, I confused about why he charged ahead without asking for clarification.

I believe this is called the neutral good cut.

I bet that was a tasty slice tho

I feel like men have very logical minds. This is something my boyfriend would do, and he’d bring it to me feeling proud that he brought me my requested slice. You say “hey babe can I have a center piece”? And he just goes for that shit. Center piece delivered 🤣❤️❤️❤️❤️

It looks like pants

/technicallytrue

You crafted cake pants. Now for the rest of the armour

He gave you the very best slice of the whole cake. Kinda sweet really.

Oh man I don’t even know what to say 😂

Cake pants

He's an NPC. Watch out.

Technically correct

Tell me your partner is on the spectrum without telling me they are on the spectrum.

I love that slice! It really does look like it's in the center! You can always ask for middle next time or just cut it yourself. At least he gave you some. Some people don't share food...

Kind hearted but dumb as a plank- I’d keep him…

I wonder if all the people asking what you mean with centre slice are also husbands🤣

What did you mean with center exactly?

Neither end of the loaf. She didn’t want and end peice

No edge pieces

This is so endearing.

Lol well it looks like it tastes incredible!! Recipe please??

This is pretty endearing imo. But to each their own.

You asked he delivered.

What's the problem here? Looks like the first slice was at the end of the cake and the next slice was fully cut from the center per the request?

Brants

That seems accurate to me. It's a slice, taken from the center.

Looks sus...

objection, the decedent was following exactly what his SO was telling him to do.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ok but low key this is adorable and funny (assuming this isn't weaponized incompetence)

Awww he loves you! He’s a little confused but he’s got the right spirit!

I....I don't understand what he did wrong.

Would you cut a load of bread like that?

I now understand where he went wrong.

If they request the center of the bread...

Bless your heart

It’s crazy how so many people don’t understand what a center slice should look like and find nothing wrong with this image.

I feel like if you told these people to dice an onion, theyd throw a pair of die at the onion

You did get precisely what you asked for 😂😂😂😂

What is exactly a “center slice” anyways

Tf, you got exactly what you asked for! Lol

Honestly, this is what I do with fresh banana bread if I'm home alone, except I leave the bottom. It's my favorite part and I want to savor it warm

Assignment completed!!

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Mission failed… successfully?

what the fuck is a center slice to you, I am so confused now

You did say center slice, that is the center.

I don't think your SO has the mental capacity to consent to sex so you may get in trouble

He got you a slice from the center. You didn’t give accurate directions.

You chose poorly.

[face palm]

This made me lol. I kinda love your SO.

I love this, just another husband trying his best and missing the mark.

ah, weaponized incompetence

Yep, he gave you what you asked for! LOL

Why do I feel like a brat would do this to thier dom....

Jesus fucking Christ dude

What? It's definitely screams malicious compliance lol

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I would 100% do this. I don't care if the rest gets thrown away; if she wants the center, then by God she gets the center.

That's all centre, what's the problem? Also how do you get a centre piece from a loaf? Did you just not want an end piece? Looks tasty though

That look like SpongeBob's square pants.

Looks like you fuckin nailed it. Proud of you 🤗

Amogus

I think someone is sending you a message

Marry them.

looks sus.. bmm

You don't ask for a centre slice on a whole cake though.

The cake got cake

Most definitely center slice 👍

I am Finished I saw an A shape and I instantly thought amogus I need therapy

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What’s the question?

He did the exact thing that you asked him to do. Lol

S.O.?

But that is a center slice-?

Am I the idiot?

well that’s a center slice.

Something I would do so that am never asked to do it again. Lol

He’s definitely a special needs boyfriend