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)
there have to be better ways to get fiber
Ew.
I hoped they washed those things.
I don't want LEAVES on my cake
Though I like them.
I don't know if I would be annoyed with the way they answer your questions. They are real leaves and they are not pretty. It is very obvious in the picture.
I hope they at least rinsed any potential bugs off of it first. At least they didn't nail them to the cake to get them to stay on...
Also, I just saw a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake commercial that looked like 3D wrecks dancing on top of cakes. At least it did to me. I blame your site. In a good way.
Maybe it's a cake for (Lord) Byron and (John) Milton.
Maybe there's a hidden code in their most famous writings.
Maybe the leaves are part of an initiation into some secret society.
Maybe I need to stop reading my Dan Brown book for a little while.
Frankly, the leaves are the most visually appealing part of the cake. Hope they were washed thoroughly, though.
They should have at least put a rake on the cake.
This is an ex parrot...
If you were going to stick dead, dirty leaves all over the cake, wouldn't you at least try to at least find pretty leaves?
Those leaves wouldn't voom if you shot 4,000 volts through them.
Love love love it! (Well, except for the aforementioned dead leaves.)
Yum?
Mmmmmm, Yummers! I'd go check the bakery parking lot right now for dog poo, 'cause that's surely where these came from.
Oh, sorry; not putting anybody off their lunch, am I?
it would be ok if it was nicely done(japanese sweets makers use mapple leaves to decorate sometimes)...but they should choose carefuly the leaves,and not just drop them and make them look like some old leaves some people walked on XD
I was hearing the parrot sketch in my head before I'd read through the post, hearing those voices talking about cake...
Anne
WV imate... I'm not saying anything, we're supposed to keep this clean, right?
Yes, and there is the little matter of saying "Happy Birthday" with dead fall leaves, to two gentmen aged 77 and 80.
He's kicked the bucket! He's shuffled off his mortal coil! This! Is an EX-! PARROT!
bahaha! Oh man. Nothing like crowning a wreck with Monty Python!
You're luck to have leaves! I used to have to get up at 3 in the morning, eat a cake topped with hot gravel, and go work at the mill for 29 hours!
There's method actors and now, we know there are method bakers out there. I think having misshapen icing leaves would have been better (and more tasty too).
I also have to mention that as I'm typing this comment, my word verification is senil. As in, I hope Bryan and Milton are senil enough not to realize there are dead leaves on their cake.
*screams* AAAAHHHHH!!!!
I LOVE that you punned the Parrot sketch! YESSSSS!
I knew I loved you!
I think I just peed my pants!!! LOL
That was AWESOME!!!! What a great way to put a MP reference inyo your blog. Ok Jen your now my new best friend.
"It wouldn't zing if you put 4 million volts through it!!"
Love IT!!!!
I wouldn't want a slice of that cake. Not even if it was "Waffer Theen!"
@Diana--interesting twist! Instead of jumping OUT of a cake (which could get expensive, requiring lots of cake and bakery architecture skills I imagine. Just get a cheap sheetcake, throw leaves on it, and jump INTO the cake. whee! Great way to wreck a wreck!
Would've been awesome if you made a "Norwegian Wood" reference. Nasty cake all around, though.
What kind of ripping-up-all-night party is it where you go to celebrate Byron and Milton?
Together? With real leaves?
At first I thought we were on the outside of an enormous 'in joke', but... I don't think we are.
I think the baker is as lost as us on this puzzle.
So I'm over half a year late to this party, but I feel I should point out - the fact that they're Norwegian leaves made me laugh particularly because there *are* fjords in Norway.
But they couldn't be pinin', I suppose, because they're deciduous leaves, not needles.
I. love. MONTY PYTHON!!!!