Sunday
Aug312008
You, Too, Can Have Teletubby Poo
August 31, 2008 Step 1: Order a cake with colors that rival Andy Warhol's paint palette, and have lots of beer on hand to wash it down.
(Ah, nice choice. Are you sure you have enough beer, though?)
Step 2: Consume. The dyes will stain every and anything they come in contact with, including clothing, skin, and vital organs. Observe:
Step 3: Wait for Mother Nature's call. Enjoy this foray into the world of technicolor poo.
[PHOTO REMOVED] (You're welcome.)
Step 4: Consider becoming a vegan. ;)
No, I'm not a vegan, folks. But I'm pretty sure blue poo should make us reconsider our dietary habits, don't you?
Sarah, I hear an herbal detox is good for this sort of thing.
Reader Comments (117)
That much icing would make me want to vomit. I couldn't stomach one cupcake!
Even a vegan can use too much food coloring. My daughter once had some bubble gum and it turned her poo bright neon green!
Photo removed?
Oh, man!
You actually had a photo of technicolour poo..?
Oh well..
~Amy
First, am I the only one who thinks that the title of this post is its best part?
Second, can someone please remind me again why anyone thinks cupcake-cakes are a good idea? I mean, really. Beer, I can understand. Battery-powered icing, I can forgive. But cupcake-cakes? C'mon.
Are you saying that the blue dye is made from animals? I thought it was usually made from plants.
A piano birthday cake with predominantly black icing sent me running to the Internet to make sure bright green poo was normal. I don't recommend doing that to any guests, unless you really want to disturb them!
My 4 yr old had problems with blue poo after eating Crazy Colors Ice Cream from Blue Bell...and I make cakes as a hobby, but never had this problem with the Cookie Monster cake...that's just means this cake had WAY TOO MUCH BLUE!!!!! Makes me rethink eating any cake with blue icing!!!
lol tooo funny and what a horridly ugly cake!
What is your take on cupcake cakes anyway?
We bought one like this from a store Memorial Day weekend. It said, "Congratulations" and we THINK it was a road driving through a desert with blue sky in the background. ...and one cupcake was missing (the cake was on clearance and we didn't notice the missing cupcake until we got home). Another thing we didn't notice until we got home was what appeared to be two finger swipes through the "asphalt". My 9 year old cousin ate a road cupcake and her tongue was black the rest of the day.
I wish I had known about this blog when we had that cake so I could have taken pictures of it for you.
We vegans can make technicolor cakes with the best of 'em.
But what's with the 'Cupcake as Cake' phenomena? It just looks... Y'know.... Unprofessional, maybe?
YUM... blue is my favourite colour too!!
Picture Removed? I wonder...
Cant go wrong with beer and cake!
What's with the swirly cupcakes? They felt they must absolutely prove they can work a large, star-shaped tip? How, other than the toxic blue color, does this blend in with the rest of the cake?
That frosting is deees-gusting. Once last year someone brought in similar cupcakes with hot pink antifreeze goo (oily, color blasted frosting) in another 1st grade classroom. A cake got spilled, then smashed on the carpet and to this day there is still a purple stain even after steam cleaning. (pink frosting + brown carpet = purple smudge). What does it do to your innards?
Why is the last photo removed? What was it?
That is an awesome looking cake, however.
You're sure you don't want to post that last photo under a jump or something? Please?
(Although I've never had blue poo, when I eat more than about half a pound of fresh blueberries from the garden, my poo smells like blueberries. Not blueberries plus poo, either--just blueberries, like a blueberry-scented candle. I'd say it's lovely but that seems gross; really it's mostly just disconcerting. Yay oversharing!)
Yikes! That's incredibly bright! and it looks very thick too...probably not only dye those vital organs, but coat them in sugar as well!
...they frost cupcakes with PlayDoh?!!?
Hello! I've been reading your blog for a while and it makes me laugh a lot, so keep up the great work!
One thing though about todays post... since when can't vegans eat food colouring? Not that I'm not saying everyone should be a vegan ;P, but you know food colouring is made without any animal products as far as I know.
I'm glad there's no pictures of blue or green poo.
I once made a black record cake...looked cool...but really a bad idea. Purple teeth and tongues and green poo.
I recommended your blog for Blog Day today, so...Happy Blog Day or whatever!
I love this site! Thank you so much for helping me to laugh every day. My 16 year old son and I read it together and laugh until we are crying and our sides ache. Love it! Renee
Wait a second... it looks like it's not even a regular sheet cake. Is it made out of individual cupcakes stuck together with a solid mass of icing?
I've seen proof of this in my kids after eating heavily colored "frosting." Gross.
Being vegan will not save you. Because of my daughter's allergies, all her birthday cakes are vegan. Purple, turquoise, etc. Scary stuff.
The cake is actually very pretty, but the amount of coloring worries me, especially after seeing that woman's tongue! You think after eating one of those if you accidentally cut yourself your blood will have turned blue.
Cakes! What a fab idea! Like your blog, which I found via 'Blogs of Note'. Very noteworthy.
My bad: I was thinking vegans usually eat more natural, less chemical and additive-heavy foods.
Wow, is this comment section rife with TMI, or what? :)
Since everyone is on the topic of the rainbow that is poo - I'll just mention I was momentarily scared, err, 'pooless' after eating fresh beets once until I remembered I had eaten fresh beets.
I think the cupcake cakes are a basically decent idea in that they eliminate cutting and ensure that everyone gets an equal portion, but do they always have to be so tacky-looking?
The fad hasn't seemed to hit my area yet. Thank goodness.
(and the word verification of 'wankjb' is hilarious!!! Think about it a minute. Think British.....)
What do vegans have to do with anything?
I want to jump on the cupcake-cake hate here -- unless you maybe took a huge number of tiny, nicely frosted ones and did kind of a pointillism thing with it? Go on, somebody, take a thousand cupcakes and copy A Sunday On Grande Jatte - I dare you.
Well, we vegans do have http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Cupcakes-Take-Over-World/dp/1569242739/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220213561&sr=8-1" REL="nofollow">better cupcakes.
Regarding eating more natural food: it often goes along with a vegan diet, but is not part of the definition!
BWAHAHAA!!! I love the title!
And the cupcake cake phenomenon, IMHO, stems from the complete LAZINESS of the citizens of our fair country, the USA. SLICE a CAKE?? Ugh, how very tiring....
Thank and congratulations:
http://atattoo.blogspot.com/2008/08/indicados-blog-day-2008.html
Many food colourings are made out of crushed insects which are not very vegan, although the insects themselves may be vegan, who knows?
Some food dyes aren't vegan; red pigment can be cochineal or carmine, which is insects!
A lot of vegans I know use natural dyes which are made from beet juice, turmeric, black carrot, etc. India Tree makes some, as does "Seelect".
Also, vegan cupcakes are delicious, woo!
OMG! It's my coworker!! Sarah, you submitted this, I'm assuming??
-Rebecca
At least they have good taste in beer.
I thought the cake was well executed for what it was. At least it was pretty. But the tongue and the poo, no thank you!
I couldn't eat that cake. Ergh! Too much icing.
Love this blog... I did a cupcake cake for my son's birthday purely because I can't stand cutting cakes. They were easy to distribute, but the icing was gloppy and falling off, plus the kids had a hard time taking the paper off. Turned out to be more of a hassle than cutting the darn cake. FYI, those of you asking about cupcake cakes, that's my info.
This is one of those posts where I think the commentary is funnier than the actual cake! Seconding the comments about cupcake cakes being lame, and I'll take your word for it on the colored poo, better I don't see it for myself ;)
I have to admit, I think it looks pretty and possibly tasty, but I am disturbed by the idea of technicolour poo.
Bummer! I missed the picture :(
Eeeeww... I went to a wedding (relationship to myself withheld to protect the guilty!) with a red cupcake tower. They had bright, neon, red frosting, which stained mouths, hands and "the dress". I bet the bride didn't plan on that happening when she ordered the color. I sensible declined to partake. My husband did not have as much forethought... they stained coming out too.
Congrats on the http://blogsofnote.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Blogs of Note!
Thank you for your site. I really enjoy it- the cake pictures and especially the commentary have me laughing so hard.
Also, thank you for the link to sweetbabyjamesinfo.com. I read it in its entirety this week, and it was so inspirational. His parents are amazing people and make me want to try harder to be more like Jesus Christ. I will keep them in my prayers during this difficult time.
For those who question the cupcakes-as-cake concept:
My theory is that cutting a regular cake can be imperfect and could lead to "he/she got a bigger piece than I did!" Also, people are lazy and don't want to have to get out a knife.
Regardless, with nasty frosting like this, I don't think it even being a proper sheet cake would save it.
I have never learned so much about the poo of so many in so little time.
the first picture has so many colors (from a design perspective) ... which is very pleasant.