Soviet Cakes

Our previous B&B host Diga, told us that there were exactly three types of cake under the soviet occupation and they were pink, green and blue in colour. The cakes had a specific recipe and required exact proportions of each ingredient. She told me that there were people checking on these bakeries and at the time of each check the cakes were made to the exact specifications. Somehow everyone knew when the checks would be. In between bakery check days, the cakes tended to be devoid of a one or more of the ingredients…
But no one made different cakes. No one tried a new recipe. Somehow I found this the most tragic and concise description of communism in daily life.