Thursday
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Dirty-Minded Decorators
October 23, 2008 Aw, look at the sweet cake for Sarah-Maude's second birthday:
[squinting] Although, those balloons look a little odd, don't they? Let's take a closer look...
[eyes bulging] Great Scott! Hide the children!!
And I KNOW you see what I see, people, so don't even try to accuse me of having my mind in the gutter. It's the Fireman cake all over again.
Eric N., thank goodness this was for a safely oblivious 2-year-old. Still, given how obvious those balloons are, I'm pretty sure I'd steer clear of this bakery in the future. Unless it was for a bachelorette party, of course.
Reader Comments (121)
Gosh, I don't remember much from my high school French, but I think that translates to "Happy Colorful Penis, Sarah-Maude."
I think it's the yellow one is the worst offender: the helmet is clearly defined!! Goodness gracious me!!
Umm, you forgot to mention the squiggly, little swimmers...
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Oh my. I get the red "balloon"!! Ha-ha!
Those damn French! Always taking liberties, even with a child's cake!
Ewwww! The kids may have been oblivious, but as an adult, how can you eat that? Or worse yet, feed it to the children? Wrong. It's just sick and wrong!
OH, my.
Is there any follow-up on cakes like this? I'd really like to know what the decorator had to say for him/herself!
It doesn't mean you mind isn't in the gutter....it just means we're right there with you!
At first I thought that those balloons looked like chicken legs. Ummm, fried chicken legs on cake, interesting combination.
Then I saw what you saw!!! YIKES!!
Holy cow!! Put me in the dirty minded category becuase I immediately saw man parts as soon as I looked at the cake. Egads!
Do I detect a PORN-STAR RIDGE? Those wacky French...
When I looked at the close up shot, I wonder what was in their minds when they drew the 'balloons'...hilarious nevertheless!
What kind of balloons look like that?!?
Why they're unnatural.
Aacckk!!! Those black squiggles coming out as "string" don't help any either!! Yipes!
What possessed the decorator to put the little extra "blobs" at the bottom of those balloons anyway!?! Balloons should be so easy, so long as they are round. Anything slightly oblong, with a long, squiggly string looks too much like male produced dna carriers to me. I know you all know what I'm talking about here too! ;-)
Well, directly translated "Bonne Fete" means good festival. Maybe this isn't a toddler's birthday cake, but the second year of Sarah's joining a brothel.
OOOOOOOOOOMYYYYYYYYYYGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
not sure should I laugh or cry?
for deffo my no1 so far.
Maybe the were celebrating the second year of her adult movie career?
What's wrong with a round balloon? Why couldn't they stick with a circle??
Hey wait a minute.... This multi-colored condom cake is for a two year old? Boy, those Latins get the party started waaaay early, don't they? Just joshin, y'all. Who wouldn't want phallic symbols plastering their two year olds cake. I mean, really... it's the only way to go.
*pulls out her psychiatrist's couch* So...tell me about your mother, Mr. Cake Decorator. Any affinity toward cigars perhaps?
Apart from the fact that those balloons do NOT look like balloons, if you full view that second picture look at the consistency of the icing. It's LUMPY. Somehow the texture makes me recall the horrible STD video they showed us in high school.
wow...they are like so PRECISE...what was the decorating thinking.?!?!
Oh...wow. That's just...wow.
Yeah... Ummmm....
Sarah, honey, would you like a piece with a blue "balloon" or an orange "balloon"?
Thankfully I can't be offended because I don't read French! Je suis d'accord chercher les ballons très phallique.
I love the phallic balloons!
Excuse me, Europeans. I stand corrected. Ans, anos. you say potato...
There are just no words for that disaster...
Um, it's French, people! It comes with the territory!
Hmmm...well, they are celebrating the birth of a child. And really, from a natural, scientific point of view, balloons are a lot less relevant to that occasion. More relevant to a cake, perhaps...
I so want that cake!!!! I know call me nasty, but it would be so worth it to bust that out in front of my family and the in-laws to see their reaction ROFL!!!!!!!
WOW! That's all I can say. Yes, I will admit to seeing EXACTLY what you saw.
*sheepish* I have to admit...I didn't get the problem with the fireman cake until I read the comments. But this one I understood...go figure.
Oh my gosh.... I was laughing out loud at my desk.... WOW!!!
tre bonne eh? a cake with icing man parts and anus spelled wrong. Definitely for Sarahs second year in Porno Valley or on Webdreams.
even funnier...the word verification for my post is coadom....like condom only misspelled...sheesh, my eyes are going, that's for sure.
I think I'd have asked the baker, "why are there penises on my kid's cake?!"
Balloons my left hind foot! Gag.
~Amy B.
Great, another classic blunder!!
Hahaha! I submited the pictures and I'm glad that they got posted.
I forgot to mention that with all the colored frosting used on this cake, everybody that ated it also had a bonus surprise the day after. Colorful "poo" in the toilet.
And FYI, we are not frenchs from France but French-Canadians from the province of Quebec.
MY 2-year-old announced, "Look, Mama! Violet violins on that cake! So many violins!"
There's nothing wrong with the French on the cake.
Decorated cakes at infant parties are solely for the benefit of the adults attending, as the kids are barely aware of anything but that someone's making a fuss over them. So, put all the naughty stuff you want on it! I'm not sure where to draw the line, though, some precocious kids would pick up on it much faster than others (for instance, *I* thought, "what ugly balloons"--and would never have guessed "dangly bits" if Jen hadn't showed the cake from another angle ^^;;).
Yeah, definitely for a bachelorette party, not a 2-year-old's birthday!
Is that you know what squirting out?!?
Marianne
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Tres mal!!!
Horrible!
Alex
I don't know if anyone else noticed, but I thought your bold text on the word BALLoon was a nice touch!!!
And the squiggly swimmers that are "supposedly" balloon strings are just sick and wrong!
ok so call me super defensive or something .. i do see it with the upside down blown up shot .. but i have to say my first thought was WOW they did a horrible job making hot air balloons .. the baskets are the same color as the balloons. Then the blown up shot came (no pun intended) and now thats ALL i can see.
Actually I'm kind of fond of the penis-balloons on a two-year-old's cake. Might as well face the facts early, "If it weren't for one of these, you wouldn't be here kid!"
Sacre Dieu!!!!!
People, do none of you have mothers-in-law who want grandbabies? This is no cake wreck - it was ordered to be just like this so the toddler's mother would understand it's time to get to work on baby #2.
I bet it's the last time they ask grandma to bring the birthday cake...
Took me a minute to figure out which end was...um...up? While I get the phallic thing...they just don't even look like a good representation of either balloons or eh-hem. Frankly it's just sad.
I will try not to take all those Frenchist comments personally...
Have to say it's an horrible cake, no matter if the text is French or English.
The thing that made me laugh is visualizing this poor Cake-Maker: I usually do more damage trying to fix things and I suppose it's the same thing for her/him:
"Well, now I have to draw those balloons... Woopsie, this one is not quite round! Well, it could be not-round balloons... I will fix the other ones so it'll look the same... Woopsie, I put to much icing on the bottom of this one... It's OK - I'll just add some lumps at the bottom of the other ones...
OMG, it looks like balloon-penises !
Wait, wait wait... I should add little strings so it look more Birthday-ish...
Damn! It just look like some on those balloons were to excited by this cake!
Oh, well. I hope the customer will pay for it anyways.
Nothing like a colorful group of "twig & berries" on a birthday cake. I especially like the orange ones who seems to have balls the size of oranges.
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