24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
Man cuts into Colin the Caterpillar cake and people are horrified
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If there's anything British people love more that a cup of tea and a biscuit, it's a Colin the Caterpillar cake. Since they first hit the shelves in Marks & Spencer in 1990, more than 15million Colin the Caterpillars have made their way from supermarket shop into the homes of Brits all over the country.
Consisting of a fluffy chocolate sponge roll wrapped in thick milk chocolate with creamy chocolate buttercream, Colin is the star of almost one million birthday celebrations every year, and has even been admired by stars such as David Beckham, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and Dame Judi Dench, according to M&S.
The Colin cake originally consisted of a simple white chocolate panelled face on top of a chocolate sponge roll. However, with time, he soon started to be made by expert cake makers, who made sure to roll him up gently before adding all of the chocolate details by hand.
However, despite his fame, some people seem to be baffled as to how to how to dig into the cake. This is what led one man to take to X to share the photos of how his boss 'massacred' a Colin cake.
"A scroll of my old photos have reminded me of when my South African boss absolutely massacred a Colin," they wrote in their Tweet, alongside photos of what had happened.
Instead of cutting the cake into 'normal' round slices, the man had instead followed their own rules by first cutting the Colin cake lengthways before cutting the two halves into smaller slices.
The tweet, which has been viewed over a million times, quickly gained traction with many people commenting on the 'horrifying' action that had been made.
"I made the mistake of showing this to daughter, who is now having a horrified meltdown screaming "Why? Why would anyone do this to Colin????" I hope you are proud of yourself, Russell! Physics GCSE revision totally trashed now as she struggles with her world shifting on its axis," one person commented.
"Your boss is clearly Team Cuthbert," another person commented, referring Aldi's version of the caterpillar cake. Meanwhile, a third user said: "Colin didn't die for this!"
"Who cuts a colin length ways?! First you decapitate, then you slice nice, whole round slices. Anything else is sacrilege!" another user exclaimed.
Another user clarified: "Let me assure you, this is in no way representative of how us Africans cut cakes."
One confused Australian also took the comment section as they questioned what 'a Colin' was, to which another person explained: "A beloved caterpillar chocolate cake, the pinnacle of British culture and cuisine."
