Foiled Foliage
November 16, 2009 "Hello, Miss? I wish to make a complaint about this cake I purchased not half an hour ago from this very bakery."
[looking cake over] "Oh, yes, that's our Norwegian Leaves design. What's wrong with it?"
"I'll tell you what's wrong with it: these are real leaves, that's what's wrong with it."
"No, of course not! Those are just icing. Look!" [shuffling leaves]
"Look, Miss, I know real dead leaves when I see them, and I'm looking at some right now."
"No, they're icing. Remarkable leaves, the Norwegian ones, aren't they? Beautiful foliage."
"The foliage don't enter into it! You put real leaves on my cake!"
"No, they're not real, they're just shining in accords."
"Shining in accords? What does that even mean?"
"I dunno; I'm just trying to stick to this Monty Python sketch as closely as possible."
Emily E., it's like a pun. Or a, what you call it, palindrome. Yeah.
NOTE: Yes, folks, they really are real leaves. Kinda gives a new meaning to "all natural ingredients," doesn't it?
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Reader Comments (127)
This takes wreckage to a new level, although I would like to have heard the customer order the cake.
Well, at least the real leaves are very artfully arranged!
Or not so much....
I totally got that it was the parrot sketch before I read the end, so I am now very proud of myself. Now you need to do the Fish Slapping Dance somehow, with cakes.
For serious? Who would even THINK to do such a thing, let alone GO THROUGH with it.
Mind. Boggled.
WV scrovell: put down your forks/spoons, you need a scrovell to eat this cake.
Taylor@myolderbrothers:
Go here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE
wow.
Kinda reminds me of the attacking butterflies/rose petals cake.
WV: Britenwa - something on a cake that is NOT supposed to be there!
Maybe Bryan Milton someone doesn't know how old he is, or else he's not telling. Could be 77, could be 80. And don't peek under the leaves, in case any chihuahuas have been by to... leave more icing.
Gumby cake decorating....
Too bad about those leaves having "gone to join the Choir Invisible." Someone should've banged the whole cake against the bakery counter, though.
Pineing for the fields!
Hooray for MP! But the leaves on this cake are SOOOO wrong. I've ordered bags of edible flowers, but never leaves, and certainly not brown dried ones...
How unsanitary! Mold. Slug trails. Bird poop. Ecchhh.
If those leaves had not been nailed to the cake with frosting, they'd be pushing up the daisies!
wv ousnoide- I would have shot off some ousnoide remarks to that wreckerator.
okay, that MP skit was pee-in-my-pants hi-lar-ious! thanks for the link!
all i can say is, poor bryan. poor milton. sad cake, and even sadder that they had to share a birthday cake!
Ewwwwwww...
But I love your Dead Parrot Sketch references. A true classic!
WV: Galli. Galli, do those leaves look nasty!
It'll make the cake a bit...crunchy...
Blargh! I know that edible flowers sometimes end up on a cake but this takes that idea a bit too far.
WV: Disti--These don't look like icing leaves, even from a disti!
Pining for the fiords, I believe.
oh yum, i love leaves
Whoa! lol Trying again, this time with caffeine:
Maybe someone didn't know how old Bryan Milton is, or else he's not telling. Could be 77, could be 80. And don't peek under the leaves, in case any chihuahuas have been by to... leave more icing.
I'm sure no one cares but me. Still...
Python! I <3 you even more.
I can see putting fresh flowers on a cake (as long as you're not shoving the stems into the icing) - they've presumably been grown in a greenhouse, been washed, and many varieties are edible anyway. Leaves? Covered in squirrel pee, sat on the ground, and THEY'RE ROTTING. And then thrown onto the cake in a way that does NOTHING to attract the eye. Yuck!
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That is, unless the laughter is uncontrollably loud at the sight of a particular day's posts, or in the case of today, if no one goes to youtube looking for Monty Python.
Thanks, Cake Wrecks!
-- The Office
The people who ordered the cake may have wanted it maple flavored...but you can't get flavoring from maple leaves that way!
Did they *wash* the leaves first? You never know where the things landed when they fell! YUK!
~Amy B-H
Yuck. I didn't even use real leaves in my wedding decor because of sanitary issues (plus I figured the venue wouldn't be keen). I can see using (specially chosen) real flowers but come on...
Ew! I wonder if they even bothered to wash the leaves first. They could have POO on them! *GAG*
What makes this especially funny for me is that those leaves are Norwegian Maple tree leaves. This is the tree that was planted as a shade tree in my neighborhood a very long time ago and now grows everywhere (local nickname: God's Dandelions). Which makes you wonder if they just picked those leaves up off the street. Euw.
YUCK!
@Anony.1:09-- I actually thought the squirrel-pee covered, rotting leaves did a LOT to attract the eye; it's just that I then recoiled in horror. In fact, I'm having trouble not nervously staring at them!
@Anony.kate-- I agree that the US doesn't value the elderly, but not that this couldn't happen in Japan, if the cookie story I just read here is true.
I wonder if Jen knows of some cakes made with SPAM?
Reminds me more of the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU" rel="nofollow">"Trade Description Act" sketch.
Oh man, the worst part about this wreck is it isn't even an edible one!
Yup, as others have said, I believe it is "Pining for the Fjords."
So funny. Love me some Python.
EEEEEUUUUUWWWW!! Gross. What if the tree was sprayed with something? What if a squirrel pooped on the leaf? Or used it for little squirrely-butt toilet paper? What if a bird crapped on it or a worm crawled on it? Gross! Gross! Gross! I live in Michigan, where we value our beautiful autumn, but not THIS much!
PINING FOR THE FJORDS!!
(There -- it moved!)
Laura R
yay for monty python! i think i'm going to request a monty python themed cake for my birthday this year...
Thanks Jen - the parrot sketch is a fabulous way to start out a Monday!
You always make me smile.
Maybe Bryan and Milton were lumberjacks-- hence the dead tree matter cake theme. :D
"He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps, he likes to press wildflowers..."
Those leaves are dead-- if they weren't stuck in icing, they'd be pushing up daisies. Those are EX-LEAVES!
I love you, you did the Dead Parrot Sketch!! Beautiful!
I have to say, I assumed the numbers were birth years and not ages--who the heck named their kid "Bryan" in 1934?
Hope the recipients of this cake weren't "stunned" by it. I won't go any further with that, except to say I have an urge to go watch "Weekend at Bernie's" now...
wv: "mortifi"-- really? no kidding!
@Catherine--
Brian Keith? Brian Wilson?
I've heard it on a few older gents. It's one of those names that caught fire in the 1970s, to be sure, just like "Emma" and "Jacob" had been lying dormant for decades, but now there are 5 in every first grade class.
esist: I think it'd be esist if we just name everyone "Pat" or "Chris."
P.S. I only know one young "Milton," but who's to say? :)
I just gagged. A whole lot.
Horrifying, germy, real leaves on cake + Monty Python reference = awesome Cakewreck!
I bet those leaves make the cake taste more natural.
No? No? I got nothing. That's weird.
All-natural ingredients indeed... I think I'll pass on this one.
Ewww....but the Monty Python sketch ftw!
Did you see you on the Washington Post?! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111602187.html near the end, topping off the whole subject.
I think those leaves have kicked the bucket.
They're pushing up daisies.
They are "ex" leaves.
(Not to be confused with ex-lax which you might need after eating this cake.)
WV: "sovely" as in, "This cake is not s' ovely"
I just hope the cake isn't Crunchy Frog-flavored...
But you missed the part where the cake is stuffed with "crunchy dead frogs", which were first "dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU
:) Thanks for another winner!