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)
hahaha..! I would not have been able to stop giggling if I was at that party.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase.."eat me"..wow.
I thought they were malformed sperm (HUGE heads, small tails) celebrating the mystery of life ... the two-year young life of Sarah-Maude.
My German-born mom's penmanship is just like what's on this cake. We gotta give the baker props for NO QUOTATION MARKS!!
Oh My, well I'm just speachless.
It does make you wonder about the decorator though.
If it was my daughters cake, I think I would have to stand at the counter and ask a bit to loudly "WHY ARE THERE PENISIS ON MY 2 YEAR OLDS CAKE?" Ya know cuz obviously I'd be wondering.
who thought that was okay?!?!? I mean, someone else HAD to have seen this. You'd think a fellow decorator or the checkout girl at the bakery or a manager or for the love of god SOMEONE would have spotted this and said something along the lines of "Dude, your friggin balloons look like penises. What's the deal?"
I mean, that's what I would have said.
*Hides her eyes*
Mes yeux!! Mes yeux!!
Um, not to be too graphic here but French willies(which usually have all original *ahem* accoutrements) would not look like this. So it's somewhat understandable that what we see as the distinctive anatomical detail would go unnoticed.
Why do penis' have to be so ugly?
As if the name "Sarah-Maude," isn't bad, incongruous, and Bea-Arthur-ish enough...she has to put up with a penis cake for her 2nd birthday. If this is the cake, then I can only shudder in horror as I imagine the gifts that little Sarah-Maude got to open that day.
looking for a moment beyond how grossly inappropriate this cake is (with all due respect to the defenders herein), I am actually quite impressed at the accuracy of the... um... representation (assuming circumcision, of course).
Should I ever be in charge of a bachelorette cake again, I'll take this photo and say "you CAN do it! It doesn't have to look like a big pink baseball bat"
I'd have to say that it's probably more of a canadian wreck than a french wreck. We don't do this kind of decorated cakes, I've never seen anything like this in any kind of french bakery. That's definitly north american, so either it was for a french family in the US or from canada.
Bu yeah, OHMYGOD, adults must have been giggling when seing that, kids just don't care.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! that was great
im so getting something like that for my kid's birthday cake
that is, once i have kids :)
then i can tease them when they get older and show them what they ate as a child *evil grin*
Well !!! it's a french canadian cake!!!! I need to know where exactly this cake come from since I live in montreal and my daughter will be 2 y/o in less than 2 weeks!!!!
I was howling at the comment, then almost had an accident after reading The Courteous Chihuahua's observation.
Hilarious. :-)
Comment dit-on "scarred for life" en francais?!?!?!
Pauvre Sarah-Maude!
WOW. Just... wow.
lord this is horrible! thanks for the laugh
That cake is stunning. They did know it was for a little girl, right?
Those BALLoons can't have been an accident!
Oh, and minor detail compared with the "balloons", but "fete" is spelled with an accent circonflexe (fête), not aigu (féte), which is what that blob over the first "e" in "fete" looks like to me...unless maybe it's spelled that way in Canada? Any input, Eric?
It is in French, you know how open minded they are over there. Just getting started early is all. :)
I was on the phone when I scrolled down to the second photo and had to put my phone on mute while I laughed raucously. Hilarious!!
I don't think there's any way those were *meant* to be balloons. I love it. I think it's hilarious!
Zut alors!
I see penises too...pauvre fille!
I like Sarah-Maude's name though!
I have no words.
OMG, that was hilarious! I literally gasped when I saw the second photo.
Hahaha... what's even funnier is that the decorator obviously doesn't have a grasp of anatomy or, worse yet, hasn't seen, touched, or played with a ... uh ... BALLoon in a very long time. Did you notice that some of them look like they contain only one BALL? Some of the others must belong to very old men - they're crooked and hang funny. They even look wrinkly. I also agree with one of the other commenters - there are no little swimmers to complete the picture. Thanks for brightening up my day LOL.
Wow, that decorator must be the disgruntled Disney animator who made the naughty x-rated towers on the Little Mermaid movie covers when fired!!!
Bon-fete, indeed!
This is hysterical on one level...totally wrong on other levels...love your blog!
Those poor circumcised balloons ;)
Your blog is hysterical! I posted about the Walmart cake ("Under Neat that") last week after my friend Zach sent it to me and SO many people commented about it! A few people told me they'd seen it on your site and that I should check it out...now I can see why! OMG. Penis balloons on a two-year-old's cake?! I can't even...
Love this!
Are cake decorators generally this passive-aggressive?
Bri2k
Yes, the worst part of this is definitely the squirtys coming out!
What? Those are just how French balloons look.
Ils sont pénis! Oui?!
Yucco!
This kind of thing makes me wonder if it was completely accidental (God, please!) or if the cake decorator was intentionally making the balloons look like that because they knew they could hide under the defense of "What?! They're balloons!"
Oh, the upside-down view is sooo deceptive. Those are pretty li-, er, lame decorations.
I wish this had been posted prior to my bachelorette party. My MOH went the far more direct route and made a penis cake with toasted coconut in the appropriate area. Which was a lot of fun in a bar, but it would've been fun to see how many drunk people would've realized what these were.
She'd've had to use white "strings", though - the model for this cake should see a doctor.
I see it too. At first they looked like tacs to me, then came the second view, *oh! what the!* Well it's a tac-ky cake none-the-less.
Well, at least we know Patrick Stewart didn't create the cake. Otherwise it would just be an image of a woman going to the bathroom!
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93lsexycakes.phtml
Wowzers. Sometimes you just never know if these wrecks are the work of a disgruntled employee.
The fireman cake story was hilarious...and a little sad. I could just picture that earnest decorator making that cake.
Oh. My. Goodness. !!! What was this decorator thinking??!! No, wait - I don't want to know.
First time poster here! Like she said, at least kids are totally oblivious to these things! Hopefully the parents were able to have a bit of a laugh over it!
I think it's obvious what line of work this decorator was in before they went into baking. Who the hell makes frosting balloons that way? Seriously? On the other hand, I know a whole bunch of people who would have so much fun consuming this wreck.
Oh Dear! I knew that those were um, those wieners you were talking about when I saw the cake right side up!
Thank goodness 2 year olds don't know what wieners are for!
Oh, Lord! I've read this blog for awhile now, and tonight I have to say I've laughed until i've cried!Hilarious. Especially the comments.
"Happy birthday, darling. Now that you're two, let's have a talk about the birds and the bees."
I want a piece with a blue "balloon" on it!!!
hm... hillarious. and so WRONG on so many levels. XD
Oh dear god. Those crazy Quebecois and their liberal sex practices!
Why did the decorator not say to themselves... hey, you know what, maybe I ought to just start over. Nobody is going to want to eat giant mounts of way-too-brightly-coloured icing in the shape of very happy penises.
My theory is that they accidentally mixed up the order with one for a bachelorette party being picked up on the same day... and flipped the cake and added the strings to cover up the flub!
I thought the things at the bottoms of the balloons were supposed to represent the knots tied in the balloons to keep the air in. Sadly, this overattention to detail has really led to some pretty phallic balloons.
Penis Power! E=D