Even though it didn’t come out until the later part of the 2000s, the Portal cake is probably the official cake of that decade.

Better yet, it’s based on a real black forest cake from a bakery near Valve

Would that mean that the cake is not, in fact, a lie?

Or is it a deeper commentary on the realism of a representation of a thing, a la Magritte’s The Treachery of Images? The cake is a lie because it’s not a cake, it’s a representation of a cake.

Doc, this is heavy.