The End of Sweetness
February 17, 2009 Ok, last Vday post. Honest.
(Until the next one, that is. Heheheh.)
Not that I can be certain these were really meant for Valentine's, of course. I mean, it's not like they give us many clues...
I would ask for guesses, but my heart's just not in it. Besides, even though geography was never my strong point, even I can see it's obviously the state of Texas. Right, Cori W.?
The gril lives!
Wow. It never ceases to amaze me: the amount of time, effort, and talent poured in to these CCCs. Don't you agree, Ann S.?
Well, I have a guess as to what this is supposed to be, Sherin G., but I'm not going to spoil the fun for everyone else. Go on now, guys: what is it?[humming Jeopardy theme]
And while we're guessing, any ideas on this one from Marisa W.?
"I tell ya, 'E' gets all the love. She's all, 'Look at me, I'm the most commonly used vowel! Ooh, la-ti-da!' Yeah. Insufferable little show-off."Then Kay found these, which are actually wrong... for being spelled right. There's a first!
See, they have a bee (sort of; that's one scary specimen), so they could have written "Bee Mine". But did they? No, of course not. I bet there's a cake out there somewhere with a sheep on it and the inscription "I love you", too. [shaking head] C'mon, decorators: get with the punny program!
Oh, and in case you forgot what we were celebrating:
Say, this could lead to a whole new holiday icon! I'm picturing Cupid, only stitched together from spare parts. Alyssa & Clark, do you concur?
Reader Comments (150)
Long live the gril!!!
i think it's hilarious how many people thought the first cake was a chicken...as did i. pretty sure my grandma had something chicken-shaped like that hanging up in her kitchen...
The first one? A duodenum, clearly.
http://www.besthealth.com/besthealth/surgery/english/pages/images/15826.jpg
The first one is definitely a rendition of Grandma's stretched out undies. Note the flowers.
The first one is mosdef a chicken. :)
The first cake is definitely the State of Ohio...yep, Ohio...or a liver.
ha ha! The "Bee/Be" cake reminds me of a restaurant near me called "Tie Me Up Noodles" Now it's a Thai place...the name writes itself. Spelling it correctly just makes it sound like some weird dominatrix fetish...
That "sweet" cake is either a broken heart, or a severed ear.
Either way, it's totally romantic.
Yeah.
okay, that first one is so not a state.....it is a kidney......nothing shows someone how much you love them with a kidney cake and the flowers really make it that much better :)
That last cake sounds like it was ordered by Skwisgaar Skwigelf from Dethklok!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dethklok#Skwisgaar_Skwigelf
In that case, I wonder who the lucky GMILF is?
It's pronouced 'VAL-EN-STEEN'!
How lovEy DovEy. :)
It's half a heart with 'sweet'. That bee looks like it has a bird head on it.
That first one is obviously a moose liver, covered in chocolate icing. Obviously.
(I'm Canadian. I know my chocolate-frosted moose-liver cakes.)
I don't know which I find funnier, the lack of a bee--I wonder if the decorator knew why there was a giant bee on the cookie,
or the
s
w
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broken heart cake.
Ether way, this is the best Valenstiens day post yet!
OMG, so bear with me now....
In the 16th-century epic romance The Faerie Queene, there's an episode where a Circe-like character turns her suitors into swine and one of them is named Gryll.
So I am 100% down with a cake that is dedicated to "all my grils." You go, witchy woman!
However, I sorta doubt this was what the wreckerator was getting at with her memo cake to: all grils. {little tear escapes}
"Cupcake cake bad! Grrrr!"
Another vote for chicken. It's SO obvious.
So CCC stands for Cup Cake Catastrophe, right?
The last one says Happy Valenstines Day.......is that Frankenstiens sister?
Dyslexia rules. K.O.
Cheers
It's a liver! I swear!
VALENSTINES?! That's amazing. I was laughing out loud at work, in a bank full of customers...whoops!
Oh my gosh. I had the image of the stitched-together Cupid as well!
The first one is totally in the shape of Ohio! And I'm not just saying that because I live there. Would I really want that "thing" out there representing?
Where is that i love ewe cake when it you need it!
*I* thought the frist one was obviously Ohio.
I'm with Jo- I see Ohio. And a Sw ee t for the mystery (is that supposed to be Sweet heart?)
CREEPY.
My 3 yo son calls them grils and he has a whole host of grils he loves at daycare. The gril cake would have been EXCELLENT for him to take, if only I'd ordered it.
The mystery one looks like Elvis Presley in profile.
oohhhhh, I know! It's a skull cap! Yeah?!?!?
I think the first cake looks like Australia - the flowers are around where the fires were recently (maybe I little more on the 'sotuh' than reality - but close).
Oh that top one is totally a floral croissant! No doubt!
I'm going with Yellow Rose of Texas for the first one there...
...the others though....?
Actually, I thought about it and the supposed half heart cake reminds me of a pictograph bear.
The Valenstines are a family of Jewish bakers, yes?
[cue music]
Bee mine! Valenstine!
Kidneys? Broken hearts? No. That 'sweet' CCC is a pancreas. Get it?
Hmm,I thought 'bunny face' for the first one. Or maybe it's a
"her(r)ing," which is my verification word.
To all the grils I've loved before,
Now I think I'll gril one more ...
Oops, sorry, Julio and Willie.
All of those "cakes" (using the term generously) are just plain wrong.
Word verification: payben. If one of these decorators is Ben, I'M sure as heck not going to pay him!
its a native american bear!
http://www.simsburytownshops.com/assets/images/bear_shadow.jpg
Maybe the mystery cake is supposed to be a "Sweet Tooth"? As in, misshapen tooth with an ugly inscription that sort of looks like it might mean "sweet".
Though I have *no* clue what that would have to do with "Valenstines Day" ^^
the mystery cake says "sweet", so one would assume that the cake would be heart-shaped. but it's NOT shaped in a heart shape...unless it's a heart that has undergone a bypass, perhaps?
sweet heart bypass?
oh, maybe it's cheeks...for "sweet cheeks"??
love how those two "e"'s are next o each other...guess they were running out of room, but it shows how much those two e's are in love...so sweet.
The last one, the way Valentine's is mis-spelled makes me think of intestine, and that icing doesn't help. Nothing like a bowel organ to express love. That first also remindes me of a hen.
I really wasn't going to comment on these cakes, especially since I'm hoping the mystery cake remains a mystery.
But the WV is fluisess. Which is sort of like the spelling/handwriting on these cakes--in the world of cake decorating, very fluid spelling/writing make for success, right?
a broken heart..
I'm another one who clearly sees Ohio in that first cake.
Texas? I totally thought that was Ohio!
It's #3/#4 with the pink blob next to the brown blob that has me fascinated. Context if not shape makes it clear that the pink blob is a heart, but where does that leave the brown blob? Do we have someone who is so romantic that he loves his intended with not only his whole heart, but also a sizable chunk of his liver? Is it a cake decorated for an interracial couple by someone who focused more on the pink + brown than on heart + heart? I doubt it, because we have two instances of this, so it must represent a standard sentiment. Both are clearly a large pink heart and a small brown blob, so we're not looking at an error of scale. The pink one is undeniably a heart, but the heartness of the brown one is very deniable in each case. I considered "heart tumour" but that's not very romantic.
Final decision: it's a heart-shaped cake for people who are afraid that their true love will complain about pink icing, and demand chocolate instead. A chocolate heart annex, as it were.
Hey, the Valentine candy and stuff is fifty percent off today !!! I found a Dove heart of chocolate--so a few more Valentine's Day cakes are in order---but that first one looks like Ohio, not Texas, in my opinion.
Onward to the next chocolate holiday: Easter !
I must concur... add a little orange beek to the right side, and a little black dot for an eye, and that first one is a perfect Rhode Island Red (chicken). :)