Cake Wrecks the Game Show?
October 6, 2008 Some cakes are like those ink blot tests you saw in grade school: baffling blobs of color open to interpretation. Well, not exactly; cakes are usually supposed to look like something in particular. Sometimes they taste better, too.
Anyway, since I've gotten a few of these "ink blot" type cakes submitted, I thought it'd be fun to add a little suspense to your daily dose of Wreckage. That's right, boys and girls, now it's time to play...
Everyone ready? Ok, clear your mind of all thoughts. Now, scroll down and tell me what you see:
"What's that? Ah, you see the moon cooking on the grill in a paper bag? [scribbling on notepad] Interesting, veeery interesting... [looking over glasses] And tell me, how IS your relationship with your mother?"
Check back tomorrow for the "answer": I'll post a picture of what the cake was supposed to look like. In the mean time, let's see who can come up with the most outrageous explanation. I may even post the top 3 guesses here, so bring on the funny, folks; fame and fortune await!*
Thanks to Dana W. for inspiring a brand new category! Oh, and Dana? Don't go giving away the answer just yet, k?
*By "fame" I mean a shout-out to your posting name, and "fortune" is used more in the "destiny" sense of the word than the "wealth or riches" sense. So in other words, no, you won't be getting any money*. Unless someone sends it to you, of course. But that someone would not be me. So probably not.
* Or begetting any money, either; 'cuz that'd just be weird. And wrong. But mostly weird.
Reader Comments (575)
i know! i look at that view from my office window every day! it's the superdome! woooooo!
(i mean, it's clearly NOT the superdome, but it looks like that's what they want it to be.)
Oh no! It's great Aunt Melba going in for the sloppy-dry-lipped-food-still-stuck-to-her-teeth-scratchy-chin-hair kiss! AAAhhhhhh! Run away! Run away!
That grey frost encroaching on the firey pit? Hell freezing over after the Saints win the Superbowl.
It's a fireplace?
I saw the Superdome right away, but only because I'm actually watching the game right now. If not, who knows what I'd see. A weird caterpillar on a plate?
It looks like the giant pair of teeth of someone who ate too much red and orange died icing, trying to look mean by baring their FANGS! (Unfortunately their ability to look intimidating is marred by the fact that they have a rather strange gab in their teeth and something severely wrong with their facial care issues.)
Either that or the glasses the guy from star treck used to wear. (He was in reading rainbow too, remember? XD) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GeordiLaForge.jpg
Looking at pictures, it probably IS the superdome, but it still doesn't look like the superdome...take off the fur-de-lise and you have no clue.
I thought at first it was a spider on a couch in a psychology office, maybe the spider was dreaming about football helmets.
Husband immediately guessed the Saint's superdome.
My god! Someone threw an authentic Louis XIV sofa onto that novelty football-themed grill along with a perfectly seared sirloin!
Right?
I wouldn't care to speculate, but those slimy-looking bug things are trying to escape, so that can't be good.
Wait...those are football helmets? Are you kidding me?
I stared at this for five minutes, and I knew it had something to do with football. My husband came over and said, "Oh! It's the Superdome!" I've even been there, twice. Wow. Just wow.
This is the super dome or an exploding couch
Well, starting at the -um- top, there is the funny grey-ish hump like thing... THEN the (what.. brown-with-fleur de lis...???)funny symbol in black. And all around the perimeter those funny large cockroach like things (that are probably freaking footballs or some dumbass thing like that). I'm guessing a cup cake thing that is trying to have something or other to do with sports since it has all those numbers around the outer most edge and what the hell ELSE could the brown area with the fleur de lis thing on it symbolize? I just don't buy a cake being carried off by roaches, even roaches that damn big.
football sushi made by the boyscouts
My husband thinks it looks like Iroquois long houses, taken over by the French.
I just can't get over how the bottom part sort of resembles burnt tofu. Not that I've ever personally burnt tofu, mind... *shifty eyes*
Must be New Orleans Superdome. The fleur de lise is The Saints' logo so that's gotta be it.
A fleur de lis sitting on a neon couch watching football?
Ah, it's the Superdome at night, as seen from the parking lot, which is being carted away by big, numbered, football-helmet wearing, mutant cockroaches.
A centipede with a French beret on.
My first thought was "Fireplace". But ... the football helmets kind of ruin that. XD
I see...footballs! No wait, cockroaches! And stairs! Stairs? Wow, I am at a loss....
Looks like a giant bed with an entire football team hiding underneath it.
I actually thought this was a grilled steak with beetles crawling out from under it at first glance, and then I was sad to realize this is supposed to be the Superdome.
My first thought was 'Two good pieces of sushi, one rotting piece of sushi, and a rock. All surrounded by olives for some reason.' I'm guessing for reals it has something to do with football, because the olives are football helmets.
For some reason, the first thing to come to mind is Audrey 2 from Little Shop of Horrors.
Headline:
"Giant flesh-eating plant consumes entire football team, adopts French emblem as logo, and vomits helmets after being crushed by half of the moon. Film at eleven."
Superdome for the Saints...possibly on fire?
At first I thought it was a coffin . . . with flames . . . and, uh, footballs?
It looks like a yule log to me - old French Canadian Christmas tradition...
hmmm...it appears to be a grilled french hot dog bun (with ketchup) that is trapped between a rock and a hard place
Is this supposed to be the superdome DURING Katrina?!
Oh! Oh!
...a poo?
I know nothing about football or the Superdome or whatever...my first thought was beetles having a BBQ...ummm...& someone thought a big ol' fleur de lis would be good to throw in there to break up the space on the seared flesh. The numbers keep reminding me of a song..."99 brown beetles, sitting on the wall...."
WOW 500 comments!!!
Does anyone else see a tie-dyed coffin sitting on a compost heap? That's exactly what I see when I look at it.
A team of footballers are hiding under a dirty carpet by a hideously colored coach; each footballer is humorously unaware of the presence of other footballers as they wait for the mistress to return, and then they all jump out and shout "SURPRISE!" in unison, except it turns out to be her husband instead, who thinks that the football team is a surprise to him from his wife.
Wacky hijinks ensue.
This must be a football team (N.O. Saints?) who placed their helmets around a barbecued steak, which is next to a very poorly cooked piece of salmon that couldn't decide whether it was to be served as a filet, a piece of sushi or a piece of poorly frosted cake. No matter, because the steak-and-salmon wannabes are still attached to the silver tailgate-style alien space ship at the rear of the salmon cake, no doubt waiting to fly this wreck off to the galaxy where cake wrecks eventually die a dismal death. In other words, this is a cake version of a tailgate party gone amok!
I think its actualy a Football stadium but that's not crazy enough so let's just say the stadium is a giant, flaming, football player eating pet rock come to life.
I think it's a Halloween cake, a grave for the New Orleans Saints. The gray part on the top is the tombstone, the part in the middle is the casket, and the brown on the bottom is the dirt.
Well, judging by the numbers near the stripey bug footballs, and the logo-ish symbol in the middle, it's 'supposed' to be some sort of football stadium. Oh, they're not footballs... they're actually little decapitated helmet people. Huh. Been there, wrecked that.
But it looks like somebody tried to make a typewriter/organ out of some various items they found in the garbage (diseased raw fish/pork, metal garbage can lid in the back, and something that is charred/mouldy/decomposed beyond recognition. Oh, and that crest? It's actually the mummified corpse of a little bird that got flattened). And then when the creator discovered that it didn't work as a typewriter, they walked away and the striped bugs came in looking for a garbage feast. They got stuck round the edges like that because the whole thing was so weird and horrible that they all died after a single nibble.
Sorry that was so long, I'm procrastinating. Yet again. Because I have maybe three hours max to finish this report for uni. Honestly, that's plenty of time :P
Why, it's a beautiful, glowing treasure chest. Isn't it?
wery nice
something to do with American football ... but I'm not sure about the fleur de lis ....
Okay, I see tiny football helmets. I'm going with some sort of stadium or football field (?)
But as for what it looks like at first glance, I was going to say some sort of viking helmet. :D
First I thought it would try to be a sofa with too many legs, but then I looked a little closer at the "legs", and they appear to be football helmets. Perhaps it is some kind of a stadium? No idea what the fleur de lis is doing on it, though.
ElsaH.
OMG!!! The Order of French Knights from Monty Python and the Holy Grail have invaded New Orleans, taken over the Superdome and massacred the entire New Orleans Saints gridiron team by catapulting a giant rotting sirloin steak, a giant putrified salmon steak and a giant over-ripe half-wheel of camembert at them from the roof of the stadium as they tried to escape!!!
They even left their calling card - a giant fleur-de-lys seared into the rotting salmon steak with a giant cattle-branding iron!!!
The last words those poor gridiron players ever got to hear were "So, you think you could out-clever us French folk with your silly knees-bent running-about advancing behavior?! I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy lot of second hand electric donkey-bottom biters!!" in a silly Python-esque French accent.
Anonymous.
At first glance, I thought it was a hotdog couch, or furniture made out of a George Foreman grill.
But then I noticed the numbers, and what looks like helmets, so I'm guessing it has something to do with American football, and the Superbowl. It would be better if it was the half time show, and had an iced version of Janet Jackson's nipple.
Chantelle from Aus.
:D
This is easy. The French Canadians, having adopted a half-moon as part of their new logo in a re-vamped campaign for independence, are attempting to display their superiority in the football and steak arenas. The fleur-de-lis (or however you spell it) sits victorious atop an once-prized grill, while a giant piece of steak has squashed a team of once-strong football players. It's a warning to football fans everywhere to stay inside during the rising of a new moon, especially if you live near Canada.
I think it looks like a foot ball teams logo...not sure which one though :-)
Easy its a cake for scouts...its a log fire!
its little cockroaches carrying a piano with a couch on top .....
Looks like someone dropped a couch from a great height on to a football huddle.
Wishful thinking?