Use to work in an office with a woman secretary. One of her jobs was to get a birthday cake for the person on their birthday/ (it was a creative place with a lot of young people and weird child-like things like that) .

it was so obvious how she felt about you based on what kind of cake u got. for chads she made the cake herself , like one of those crazy cakes from cake boss (i shit u not, like a sculpture) with very expensive ingredients . for normal shmoes and no non chad she would literally get u a discount cake from the super market with the worst, cheapest icing etc.

amazing, if a guy had this task to do, he would line up a deal with the local baker to have a standard, cost effective, yet good, cake as their go-to and anytime there was a birthday he would simply make a call to him or shoot him an email and order one and have it dropped off. minimal effort and no playing favorites.