The party game where each guest brings a cardboard cut-out of a character or object they find, against their better judgement, attractive, plants it on a cake and says 'hear me out' — from Halloween 2023 into a fixture of every Gen Z gathering. The record's entry for the cake that has held a Shrek, a Lego man and a lamp.
The record notes the rule is that the choice must be defensible for exactly one sentence, and that the sentence is always 'hear me out' followed by silence and a friend's screaming.
A hear-me-out cake at a 2025 office leaving do, featuring a Roomba, an animated fox and the office coffee machine. The record notes the coffee machine won on a technicality.
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