The Insanely Dark Origins of Women Jumping Out of Cakes

Almost everyone has seen depicted the bizarre bachelor party tradition of a scantily-clad woman jumping out of a giant cake. It turns up most often in decades-old films, TV shows, and comics, but it still persists today at lavish Vegas shindigs—though the cakes are now usually made of flimsy cardboard. But how did this tradition actually start? Well, it turns out it was a murder and the "Trial of the Century" that made the practice spread. Here now is the dark story of how it all began. Host/Editor: Daven Hiskey Producer: Samuel Avila 0:00 Intro 1:28 How the Practice of Putting Living Things in Food Got Started 5:41 The Girl in the Pie Dinner and the Murder That Followed 9:45 The Incredible Tale of the Dwarf Knight and the Duel That Ruined His Life

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