Saturday
Nov152008
And For That Crowning Touch...
November 15, 2008 So Shawn sent in this "specialty" cake:
Which might lead one to question what their "specialty" is. Hmm. Things from Down Under, perhaps? [smirk]
Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Gee, Jen, I wish I could see that from another angle and with more color saturation," aren't you? Aha! I knew it. Well, luckily for you, Formica D. also sent in a photo of the exact same cake:
Wow. I don't know about you guys, but seeing that top "pile" in all its glistening glory is greatly grossing me out. Ick.
By the way, given that the displayed goods next to the cake went from ghostly strawberries to turkey cupcakes, just how long do you suppose it's been sitting there? Long enough to attract flies, perhaps?
Reader Comments (114)
I don't know what's more distracting: the, ahem, stem or the oddly colored flowers (which seem more appropriate for yesterday's fireworks explosion cake). Or the strawberries (it took me a minute to realize those were the strawberries to which you were referring). Ack! I need to go stare at a blank wall to give my eyes a chance to recover.
Word verification: promo. These are all holiday promos that misses the mark...
(Apologies if you get duplicates of this; the ol' wireless is acting up this morning.)
They could've been a little more subtle with that "stem". Imagine what a cornucopia could look like in the same decorator's hands!
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
I WAS planning to eat breakfast now, but I now I feel a little sick...
Well, it's a cornucopia of Thanksgiving fun! Or it's a frosting ploop...eeewwwww. It makes my teeth hurt!
NO, NO, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is it supposed to *be*, anyway? A cornucopia? Isn't it kind of, well, pointing the wrong direction?
Okay, so is that supposed to be a pumpkin, and that gross thing sticking out of the top is the stem? That's the only thing I can figure. Love your BLOG, look at it every day.
It's really a shame they had to put a pile of doo-doo on top of this cake, because otherwise, I kind of dig it. I like the technicolor dahlias on the the side.
Amazing, they managed to capture that pumpkin at the exact moment the firecrackers inside exploded!!!
And for added effect, when somebody said "oh sh**", they decided to put that on the cake too!
Now we know why you never carry a pumpkin by the stem.
Word Verification: unticked...I think that's what I just did to my cat, I un-ticked her.
Us poor Australians are always the butt of poo jokes. So to speak.
That was very appetizing on this Saturday morning! icky.
duh--during the Halloween Season, it was a giant slug and now during Thanksgiving time, it's obviously a cornucopia overturned by a precocious boy...the little rapscallion!
OMG...is it possible that this cake was available at more than one store?
and as far as that stem...who says you can't polish a turd?
This is awesome, it like a huge orange marshmallow with a big pile of poop on top and yes its been sitting so long its growing colored fungus off to the side, oh wait it that a pumpkin growing flowers... oh woops... hehe i thought it was, ahhh never mind its all the naughty talk that really gets my mind thinking.... lol
EEEeeewwwwuuuu Glad I ate breakfast already. That is gross. It glistens.
I'm guessing that is supposed to be a pumpkin due to what look to be ghosts surrounding it.
Needs to be a few flies buzzing around it and voila!
Either that cake has been sitting there for so long that the season has changed. Or, they actually sold the first one and made another one.
I'm not sure which one is worse.
Phillygirl64,
I stared at the two cakes for a while cause I thought the same thing. I mean who leaves a cake in a window long enough to completely redecorate around it. Then I noticed the icing ridge next to the flower and the peak of...um.."icing" on the "stem" and grasped the truth of it. It's the same.
Maybe they can put some hearts on it for Valentines day.
Oh,
And let me just say, that cake is sitting in a window with a bunch of other edible items, which leads me to believe that the cake is real and not a styrofoam display.
How unfortunate was the person who bought that? Yeesh!
That poor cake never stood as chance...
Are you sure that it's not the battery cable still attached to the automatic cake froster & it got buried in the cake?
I'm just sayin!
Before I would even think about serving that cake to anyone, I would have to go get one of those little doggie baggies and scoop up that...pumpkin handle.
Afterthought: the flowers should go in there, too.
As I am studying bowel elimination in nursing school right now, all I can see is a large colon on top of the cake, not so much the fecal matter that everyone else sees.
Alright. That's it. First thing on my list tomorrow is a canvas of local grocery cakes. Here in regional Australia, I've seen some real "winners" and I keep forgetting my camera. Since neither Halloween or Thanksgiving are holidays here (though both are catching on, the former because grocery stores are figuring out that Halloween is a great money-maker and the latter because we can't live without pumpkin pie and turkey), we ALREADY have Christmas cakes! That's right! I thought Christmas came earlier every year in the US and then I moved here and Christmas decorations go up in stores at the end of freakin' October! (The toy catalogs actually come out in July so that parents can put things on lay-away!) Our local grocery store bakeries also love their clear gel icing, which is ok in it's place but not when you plan on tipping one cake for display. Then it looks like the inscription is crying. I can't wait to go on Wreck-hunt!
What is so funny is that I was so grossed out that it took me a good minute to determine that was supposed to be a stem. Um, yuck!!!
Ah....FINALLY a cake worth a stinkin' Jackson. I mean, just the icing alone.
(Word verification "oration" and, ironically,I kept my comment on the short side for once.)
Alixandra Hice
http://casahice.blogspot.com
Wow...that's....something.
THAT'S a stem???? Yikes!!!
What is it SUPPOSED to be? A pumpkin? But why would flowers be growing on the side of a pumpkin?
A trophy for a girls' basketball team?
A sofa cushion with a spring growing out of it?
A statement against the genetic engineering of vegetables?
Or is it just a flowered ball with dog poop on it?
That cake seriously makes me GAG when I look at it!! Besides frosting should never ever be that color!
Talk about a huge fial. Oops fail.
I want to know how many in the Cake Wreck Nation now pack their digie cameras and do a stealthy stroll by the bakery display cases every trip to the grocery store now!
I, for one, am guilty as charged.. :o)
The cake decorator obviously doesn't have a terribly juvenile sense of humor which, I think, is necessary to prevent a dookie cake fiasco.
OK - somebody has been into the stool softning gel tabs again.
Or - they own a rottweiler who poops on cakes!
Can someone send me the recipe?
Thanks
Well...the most I can say is...at least it looks um...shiny? (I was going to go with creamy, but didn't want to induce puking in hte comment section...oh wait...)
Word Vert was ingeni. Definitely not a descriptor for that wrecktastic pile.
Ack! A pumpkin stem? A cornucopia? A... big, thick, shiny brown spring? Heavenly days, WHAT IS THAT OFFENSIVE MASS?
We lost our jobs, sold our home, and are traveling the country in an RV. We call it temporary retirement. As we travel the US, we pickup our food supplies and I run to the bakery, with camera in pocket, eager to snap a photo of the next wreck. Jen, you have so many wreckporters at your disposal. How's that for power?
Our travel MISadventures:
jimandgarret.blogspot.com
That is HILLARIOUS!!
I've heard of frost on the pumpkin ----- but never poop on the pumpkin!
Did anybody else see the "flowers" as sea anemones? That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw them: a pumpkin encrusted with anemones, and maybe some kind of sea slug crawling on top of it.
EWWWWW! No wonder nobody has purchased that cake -- I wouldn't eat it if you paid me to! X(
its POOOOOOP run for our lives!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
~Hyla
from
http://greenearthjourney.blogspot.com
That is probably THE hardest I've laughed at a cake before actually reading your commentary.
HARDEEE HAR HAR!!!!!
My husband was lurking over my shoulder when the picture came up. He FINALLY gets my Cake Wrecks obsession!
I have cows, and I KNOW what is on top of that cake! Ewwwww.....
Kathy in SC
That is soooo awesome!!! I can almost see the steam piping off the first pic...the ghost on the left side in the background kinda looks afraid of it...or mebbe he's hiding because he let go of that motherlode, wait ghost poop is invisible, isn't it?!
Personally, I think it's http://www.schlockmercenary.com" REL="nofollow">Schlock
Turd alert!!
Looks like a pile of doo doo on top... will someone please get a shovel and get that off of there.
Giant Maggot!! Aaagh!
That is DEFINITELY the same cake in both pictures...the same bent over -um- "stem"...the same three orange ridges to the right of the 2nd flower from the bottom.
Can we pretend that one photo was taken on Halloween and the other on Nov 1st--let's just say this bakery is really on top of their Thanksgiving decorations--just to make me feel better...it's really grossin' me out. UGH!
word verification: obtnessi--what I'm going to obtnessi my lunch if I look at those photos again.
Did anyone else notice that the price card appears to be jammed into the stem?
Even if the rest of it wasn't as unfortunate as it is, that would still slow sales, I have no doubt.
Who wants to buy a cake with a slice taken out of the massive shiny colon turd on top?