Patriot Day
September 11, 2009 Today you're going to see a lot of beautiful and touching 9/11 tributes. That's good. If you're like me, you're going to get a little teary-eyed, and maybe it will be a bit harder to remember all the little things you usually laugh about. Maybe that's why you're here. And you know what? That's good, too. We should celebrate our heroes. We should remember our loved ones. But we should also - and with great pride, I might add - eat patriotic donut holes.
Wait.
What?
Oh. Well, as long as it's printed on the label, then I guess it's Ok. Remember, if you don't eat your Patriotic Donut Holes, the terrorists win!
Although now that I'm looking at these things, I do see a problem: There are only red and white donut holes. No blue! Don't think I don't see what's going on here, either. That's right, Canada: I'm watching you.
Those are rather generic for Patriot Day, though, don't you think? Can we get something a little more...I dunno, holiday-specific?
Right, maybe we should head back into the generic territory:
Uncle Sam wants YOU...Hm. Look, there has to be a middle ground between donut holes and icing depictions of the towers, right? How about just a nice, uplifting, appropriately-worded sentiment?
"Never Foget"?- Related Wreckage: A Cake Wrecks Salute
Reader Comments (151)
The murdered donuts are just gross... number 2 is typical wreckiness... number 3??? Um.... I think I'll check back in here later to see what the rest of the class thinks. I am pretty sure I'll be forgetting number 4.
1. So Canada is opposed to blue balls?
2. I don't think I could eat the twin towers CCC. I wouldn't want to be the guy that pulled the cupcake out and tore up the image. What's next? Twin Towers 9/11 Jenga?!
Plus, there are 3 too many needles on the towers. Only one is needed, and only on one tower.
Maybe it's just two stove-pipe hats. To represent Lincoln. Yes, that's it - Two Hats for the Two Lincolns (we can't forget Future Robot Lincoln, can we?). That's much better. Right?
Thanks for the smile today.
Those donut holes are gruesome. No disrespect to the victims and survivors, but they look like they could have been found in the debris, next to an impaled body.
Is a Foget a female Fog? You know like Smurfet.
"Remember, if you don't eat your Patriotic Donut Holes, the terrorists win!" Yep, that's getting tweeted.
That is so weird. Why sweets for nine eleven? Why???
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
Right after September 11th a friend went to New York and I asked him to bring me back something. He brought me a snow globe of the Twin Towers with the world's ugliest confetti swirling around them when you shake it - he said they were on clearance everywhere.
Somehow I think my ugly little snow globe is in the same league with that CCC (patooie).
On a side note, I've had an odd running joke with a friend for years now about bloody donuts. I'll have to direct her to today's post to show her they really do exist.
Those donut holes need some kind of cream to get rid of that rash.
Thank you for the giggle on such a serious day! I always look at the site in the morning at work and make my coworker look at the most heinous...well, I guess that would be pretty much all of them!
Please don't tell me I am the only one to control my scrolling to hide the picture while reading the lead in text! It's like my own private daily mini-reveal of humor. Great job as always.
WV: rociast - Was exluding Blue a rociast act by the doughnut maker?
The towers CCC isnt too horrible except for the FIREWORKS. Honestly? Let's not joke about explosives near the towers. In that respect, the prevous towers cake was more respectful.
To add to the gruesomeness of that second cake, the "cloud" above the tower on the right looks eerily like a ghost. That just ain't right.
Nothing says "Never Forget" like bloody donut holes!
Maybe "Never Foget" ("fo-ZHAY") is an exhortation to oppose something that's French, which seems a knee-jerk response for many American nowadays (e.g. "freedom fries").
The patriotic holes make me think of tampons.
The doughnut holes make it look like the terrorists already won. Bloody doughnut holes? Mmmmmmm.
Twin towers cake? Tacky. Twin Towers on a CCC? I have no words.
K-
1.Only RED donut holes? These must be Republican pastries. I get the red-state, blue-state thing, but I never imagined that donuts could be politically partisan...
2. At first glance, I thought the Twin Towers were being attacked by giant mutant spiders. Thanks for the clarification!
I think it's only fitting that there are awful cakes to commemorate and awful day.
Patriot's Day is in April.
Today is not Patriot's day.
I think the baker cut him/herself, bled on the donuts, repackaged them as "patriotic" and sat back to see who was crazy enough to buy them!!!
The didn't even do the WTC correctly; it looks like the top of the Sears Tower in Chcago gazing into a mirror. Sigh.
I grew up on a farm, right? And every spring they would castrate the bull calves. The top picture? Gave me flashbacks. Thanks, Cake Wrecks!
Are those fireworks, or giant mutant icing spiders?
I thought they were spiders.
The donut holes are patriotic because they resemble blood spilled for our country? Bleh. Pass.
Wait . . . the twin towers were attacked by giant spiders? I guess I need to pay more attention to current events.
The donut holes...um...they look like they were just cut off of some unwilling patriots, if you catch my drift. No thanks.
Just to clarify...
today is "Patriot Day"
If you look closely at the label on the patriotic donut holes, it says they're best before 7/3/09. Unless Independence Day Eve is a new US holiday, those donut holes really had a bad sense of timing.
Those donut holes look like someone just tried to use them to mop up the results of a mass murder.
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oh the towers CCC is in really poor taste... literally?
Thanks for making me a published photographer, Jen.
Cake is supposed to be celebratory. There's nothing about this terrible day to celebrate. It's like bringing a cake to a funeral with a "so sorry for your loss" written in beautiful script. It may be beautiful and well done, but it just seems in poor taste.
Not only did the last cake forget the R, they also forgot that it's red, white, THEN blue.
What does France have to never "foget"?
Not only did they forget the R, they also forgot that it's supposed to be red THEN white, THEN blue!
What does France have to "never foget"?
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If I sent that twice, please disregard one of them... :)
THANKS!
What a great day brightener! I won't "foget" to laugh!
My first reaction to the second cake:
Oh, no, they didn't. And on a CCC, even. Some people have no shame...
Twin Towers cupcake wreckery is pretty much the perfect example of someone having an idea and at the same time not an iota of a clue...
Taylor (My Older Brothers) said...
"1. So Canada is opposed to blue balls?"
Isn't everybody? (sorry, knee jerk response. you should really phrase that differently though.)
Also, the jenga idea is so tactless i'm surprised it hasn't already been done. *googles it* (facepalm) looks like it has been done XP
Wow! The donut holes actually look like a bloody massacre and all that is left are eyeballs! And who would order a WTC CCC? And I will never foget!!
the teeny tiny dumbells are abstract art: it's the towers symbolizing the number 11, but they never truly "fell" because they live on in our hearts- hence, they are just bent a little.
Patriotic donut holes. eh? Maybe we Canadians are just miffed that your book tour doesn't bring you our way! :)
Gotta love the strange powdery mould look of the white donuts. Yum.
Shouldn't that be "Nevah Foget" ?
You've got me singing Nat King Cole... "Unfogettable... in evy way."
1. Powdered patriotic meatballs. Doesn't work for me.
2. Double ptooi w/lights
3. Yep, double sided, um, yeah, wreckiness.
4. R we fogetting something here?
WV: Jawsh => A shark with no teeth.
“Attention Wal-Mart shoppers! It appears we, um…now have a sale on Patriotic Donut Holes in the Bakery Department! We have a limited supply, so hurry to get yours! Also, er…we need clean-up in the Bakery Department pronto. And, um…when the ambulance arrives, could someone please direct the EMTs back to the, eh…Bakery Department...thank you.”
^..^
i will always remember 9/11. i still have bad nightmares from it.
The last one with "never foget" on it looks more like "never 7oget." When did a 7 make an F?
That baker gets a big fat 7!!!! I mean.....an F