Ingredient
Cake
Cake turns up on sixteen plates across nine of the kitchens we read. The entree section holds six of them, and it comes as a sandwich more often than anything else, on three.
From 40 menus · cake is on 16 plates · How we read them
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Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →
Cake, broiled or grilled
Our reading of the menus puts it broiled at four kitchens and grilled at three.
How it comes
The forms it turns up in, most first.
Where on the menu
The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.
How it's cooked
How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.
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The journey of cake
The same 16 plates read outward from the middle: how the kitchens cook it, how it then arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. A wedge too narrow for its word carries it in the table underneath.
| Ring | Commonest | Plates |
|---|---|---|
| How it's cooked | broiled | 5 |
| How it comes | omelette | 2 |
| Where on the menu | entree | 3 |
| Other | 22 other steps, added up | 31 |
| Not stated | the menu never printed that detail | 16 |
Every wedge, as a table
| Cooked | Arrives as | Course | Plates |
|---|---|---|---|
| broiled | — | — | 5 |
| broiled | not stated | — | 3 |
| broiled | not stated | entree | 3 |
| broiled | platter | — | 1 |
| broiled | platter | entree | 1 |
| broiled | sandwich | — | 1 |
| broiled | sandwich | not stated | 1 |
| grilled | — | — | 5 |
| grilled | not stated | — | 4 |
| grilled | not stated | not stated | 3 |
| grilled | not stated | appetizer | 1 |
| grilled | omelette | — | 1 |
| grilled | omelette | breakfast | 1 |
| fried | — | — | 3 |
| fried | not stated | — | 2 |
| fried | not stated | entree | 2 |
| fried | platter | — | 1 |
| fried | platter | entree | 1 |
| folded | — | — | 2 |
| folded | omelette | — | 2 |
| folded | omelette | breakfast | 2 |
| barbecued | — | — | 1 |
| barbecued | not stated | — | 1 |
| barbecued | not stated | entree | 1 |
| breaded | — | — | 1 |
| breaded | not stated | — | 1 |
| breaded | not stated | entree | 1 |
| sauteed | — | — | 1 |
| sauteed | not stated | — | 1 |
| sauteed | not stated | appetizer | 1 |
| steamed | — | — | 1 |
| steamed | platter | — | 1 |
| steamed | platter | entree | 1 |
Travels with
What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.
- Crab6read by scriptall Crab
- Butter4read by scriptall Butterdistinctive
- Roll4read by scriptall Rolldistinctive
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Dishes
Our reading of the menu turns up roll, pickle and butter.
Our reading of the menu turns up diced, cabbage and flounder.
Our reading of the menu turns up cracker, fruit and cod.
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Egg, omelette and hollandaise come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
Our reading of the menu lists: vegetable, brioche, tartar.
Our reading of the menu turns up steamed, soft crab and crab.
Our reading of the menu lists: patty, chip, pickle.
Brisket, Ipa Steak Sauce and roll come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
In the family
Where it sits in the ingredient lexicon.
One entry is all the menus we read give this. All pastry
Where on the island
The 9 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.
| District | Kitchens | Side of the island |
|---|---|---|
| Lower Midtown | 2 | inland |
| North OC | 1 | inland |
| West Ocean City | 4 | harbor |
| Day-trips ring | 2 | inland |