Cake Boss

OK I admit...I was a Cake Boss fan....once. I read the other less than stellar reviews and I have to admit they are right. I used to watch this show faithfully. The first couple seasons I sat through the fake drama, the fake acting, the "its all about Buddy" story lines, the whining voice narratives, everybody playing up their "Italian-ness", Buddy and his crew of nubile young female decorators who hover like baby birds with their mouths open for every job Buddy gives them, the young bucks and their passive reactions at Buddy's sometimes demeaning practical jokes and his overall Alpha gorilla chest thumping in the Kitchen. After all, what's not too love about a small Italian bakery run by a big Italian family, right? I'm old enough to remember the good old days...when ethnic neighborhoods were ethnic and authentic neighborhoods. People were hard working humble folk that simply enjoyed being in the neighborhood and in the moment. Now we have star power! Now we have the Italian sisters and their obvious $250 haircut and color jobs..cameo shots of their huge houses...and remarkably all from what is being touted as an unassuming little corner Italian bakery. Yeah....OK. Ah...but now Buddy is thinking..."Lets go to Italy on The Learning Channel's dime so Buddy can wow them in the old country" and "Let's get a warehouse--we're talking assembly line-mass production baby!" The show has taken a tawdry turn to say the least. It's no longer a glimpse into the life of a small Italian Bakery in Hoboken and the colorful family that runs it. Its about people believing in the actual roles they created for themselves and are marketing to an ignorant public starving for the good old days. How people continue to watch the show is way beyond me. Its just sad...

Cake Boss was not a good representation for our Board of Health, NO GLOVES AT ANY TIME DURING THE SHOW, AND NO HAIR NETS AT ANY TIME DURING THE SHOW, ALL THE GLITTER, RATHER THAN THE CLEANLINESS! The attire was not one that should be in a bakery kitchen, jewelry, no white coats, gloves as stated above, and hair covered! I was not impressed, and as a reality show not a good representation of what we want to see our bakery kitchens looking like, spotless as well as the bakers.

Has the Board of Health ever visited your site? if so, I am sure the grease in the basement, the attire, and the gloves, hairnets would be suggested or required.

The results may look good, and taste good, but who knows what else we are eating resulting from unclean cooking staff, etc.

Cakes, family, events, confessions, mates, boys. And cakes. A predictable circle. Not impressive but surrelly nice. For the Italian flavor. Many cakes are far to be masterpieces. But the work, the relations between people, the surprise of the audience of party are good points for a sort of sweet trip in the life and the work of a comfortable cake artist.

This shows is annoying and the star Buddy is a Stereotypical Guido. I mean that in the worst way. I am also a Italian American. Sopranos + Jesery Shore+ Baking Show = "Cake Boss"

If a bunch of sweaty grunting guys with butt cracks showed up IN THE MIDDLE of my event and took over - I'd be livid. Yes - all the drama is obviously staged but the really fake part is clients letting Buddy show up hours late so he can be center stage.