Thursday
Dec182008
Whirled Peas
December 18, 2008 For a cake promoting peace, this one sure is an assault on the eyes:
That pea-soup-green and grayish-blue color combo is causing a lot of upset in my GI region, too. In fact, looking at this cake is making me feel anything but peaceful. It makes me feel like maybe these color-blind wreckerators should be stopped, you know? Like maybe we should do something about it! What do you say, Heather E.? Are you with me?!?
Ok, here's what we'll do: we'll form a website, see? And then we'll post pictures of all the really bad cakes, yeah? And then we'll mercilessly mock the cakes until the wreckerators are forced to change their evil ways! It's BRILLIANT!!
Oh, wait....
Reader Comments (129)
Maybe it's one of those tricky meat cakes topped with pasta salad.
I'd say they're more like cocktail olives on Earth...
Reminds me of the "Exorcist" ,anyone for some pea soup?
Oh my, whirled peas, indeed! I am not hungry for breakfast now. Yuck. How OLD is that cake? Bleck.
Remember the scene in The Exorcist where Regan's head goes all twisty and she upchucks on poor f
Father Karras? Yep, that's what I'm thinking they used for icing. All those in favor of an excorsism, say aye!
I'm not feeling exactly peaceful, but I'm definitely feeling peasful.
I thought the cake had uncooked pasta along the edge for a minute there.
And Jen, while changing the world is an admirable goal, I just walked past my local grocery store's bakery last night and...Well, let's just say it's going to be a long process.
That is hideous. Is it supposed to be a wreath? It looks like pasta heaped on the cake.
liz
The first thing I saw on this cake were olives. Ha.
Olive this cake.
I think you could use that cake to negotiate world peace. Make peace or else everyone eats the cake!
Phoo-D
Should be titled "Peas on Earth".
At first glance it looked like green olives with pimentos in the middles.
It's a sad state of economic affairs when wreckorators are forced to spare every penny from a bakery's budget by using less coloring in the icing. Every budget cut has consequences. Some consequences are entertainment for others
Yeah I'm with Horrible License Plates. Olive the other cakes used to laugh and call it names. No, wait....
Jen don't rain on their parade. Who doesn't want whirled peas? I'd love some peas on Earth this holiday season.
(on a less punny side note, I've always heard that color referred to as "baby sh*t green"....maybe it's a Texas thing)
Whirled vomit, perhaps? Someone needs a color wheel.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
I'm at a loss for words. Were they going for a wreath?
Peas on Earth indeed!
Give peas a chance.
Yuck!
It does look like olives...
Add me to the pile of folks who thought there was pasta topping that monstrosity.
Before reading this site I had no idea how rampant alcoholism was amongst cake decorators. Seriously, barring the chance that they are secretly employing preschoolers in the back, it's the only logical explanation.
That looks like pasta salad. D: Yuck yuck yuck.
Yep, my first thought was pasta also. Glad I am not the only one who saw the pasta salad drizzled on top!
A new word for you: wrecketrate
Disturbing...
The Courteous Chihuaua...you might be right...a tricky meat cake...gross...but i'm definitely seeing olive and pimento topping....
I also think the inscription is interesting. It's a very bold statement...PEACE ON EARTH!...not "Let there be peace on Earth" or "May there be peace on Earth"...maybe they were charging by the letter and the buyer was as budget minded as the frosting colorist.
Whirled peas? Are you sure you didn't mean hurled peas?
That is one nasty looking cake!
I seriously thought that cake was adorned with green olives with pimento. I just threw up a little in my mouth just typing that.
Just arrived at work and want a martini already thanks to this cocktail olive cake. It's 5:00 somewhere...
My first thought was the preschool art project where cornflakes are dyed green and glued onto paper to make a "wreath," but preschoolers would be neater in their execution of said art project.
It looks like an uncooked Digorno tortellini wreath.
It's Tortellini!!
Bev
Maybe its just because its what I had for dinner last night, but I couldnt figure out why pesto pasta was so peaceful. It seriously took about 2 minutes for me to realize it was supposed to be a wreath! Oy!!
aren't peas a common ingredient in pasta salad?
Who thought this would be a good cake that looks suspiciously like a pasta meat cake? And of course, the colors are just horrendous.
"Whirled peas"...more like "hurled peas"!
I too, saw olives and pureed peas. Something out of a Gerber jar.
That's just gross.
~Amy B.
It's obvious you can't served ice cream on the side with this one. How about a nice dollop of mayo?
I, too, see olives. An olive wreath.
At first glance I thought it was some kind of weird olive medly.
Everybody now! *Slee-eep in heavenly peas...*
Why am I suddenly craving a martini after looking at that cake?
So I go to a family member's house for holidays, and there are rarely any vegetables served at the holiday meal. (I try to bring them when the potluck assignments are handed out, you know, being the change I wish to see the world and all). But this cake solves the problem: it has greens! it looks like spinach pasta! or olives! I need never steam a veggie again if my host will just buy this cake for our holiday dessert....
EEEWWWW!!!! Ugly cake!
"Wrecheraters" Good word.
I like "Wreckreators", too. As in wreck-creators.
I start every day with a good laugh from your blog. Thanks for helping me get out the door with a laugh.
Were they going for the mashed up green olive look? Because...mission-accomplished.
Help! There's deviled eggs and olives on my cake!!!
And furthermore...if it IS supposed to be a wreath, what are those nasty brownish black flecks in it supposed to be??
I am glad a bunch of you thought it looked like olives. So did I. Then I thought about what olives would taste like on a cake. Now I have an upset stomach.
True fact: in 18th century France, the color of that cake was extremely popular in the royal court. The color's name? Goose-turd green. You cannot make these things up.
Word verification: glorn. The sound you make when you see this cake? Or perhaps the mood the decorator was in?
I really have to quit reading your blog before breakfast! Grocery store bakeries need someone with veto power to come by before these cakes are presented to an unwary public. That would spoil all the CakeWrecks fun though, wouldn't it.
Ah, my verification word is a cross between "dire" and "dread." The pea(s) cake is something diread.
Dudes.
Looks to me like they edged the cake with deviled eggs. You know how it gets kinda greeny if you boil the eggs too long? Like that.
Thats just gross. Nikki
Whirled Peas...that's beautiful right there.
the cake? not so much!