Strawberry Shortcake

Dear Reader,

The name of this delicious dessert is Strawberry Shortcake.  One might reasonably expect, when ordering or preparing said dessert, that it ought to include both strawberries and shortcake (which, like shortbread, short crust, and shortening bread, is so named because it is made predominantly with 'shortening', aka, fat, in this case, butter).  Why is it, then, that so many foolish, foolish people will insist on sloshing some strawberry sauce over a slice of sponge cake, globbing on some Cool Whip(tm), and pretending that the resultant soggy mess is anything other than a complete travesty?

This pisses me off to no end!  Strawberry Shortcake is my favorite dessert ever; yet, because sponge cake lasts forever and people are too lazy to make fresh shortcake, I encounter the real thing only rarely.

Fortunately, I am more than capable of making my own fun, and my own shortcake.