[ichabod1]

Yeah, I got so annoyed I looked it up once. Turns out it’s a dance. A nineteenth-century dance that was the forerunner of swing dancing. I had thought it had something to do with the county fair and cake baking competitions.

[mamelukesabre]

Are you sure? That’s news to me. A cake walk was a type of fund raiser when I was a kid. It was like musical chairs but with cakes. Back in the days when women still baked things from scratch, and took pride in it, they would donate a cake to a fund raiser. Then men(usually) would purchase a ticket to enter this game of chance. When the music stopped, everyone got the cake they were standing next to...and a chance at a date with the girl that baked it, if she was single and inclined to it.

The nicest cakes(baked by the prettiest most available girls) were “walked for” first. But it was a secret whose cake was whose, till the walk was over(supposed to be, anyway). Then eventually, all that was left was the old ladies cakes. Those were walked for by anyone, women included.