Mixed Grill
May 25, 2009 It's Memorial Day, and as every red-blooded American knows, there is only one nationally accepted way to demonstrate your sense of patriotic pride in the men and women who have sacrificed for this country. One which involves fire, hunks of raw meat, and at least one guy in a "kiss the chef" apron cursing out the blippity bleepin' starter switch on the filth flarnin' grill.
That's right: It's barbecue time, baby.
Is this creative? Sure. Appetizing? Not so much. It looks like a giant half-cooked hamburger with steak and shish kabab'ed Elmo fingers on it. [shudder] Great, now I gave myself the willies.
Speaking of shish kababs, here's the "cheater-cheater-plastic-eater" version:
[shaking head] Til the end of time, Wreckerators will be trying - and failing - to make circles out of cupcakes. What's the definition of insanity again?
And here's one with the oh-so-authentic chalky briquette look:
Ah, there's nothing like leprous-looking cupcakes to get the ol' saliva glands going!
Some bakeries are breaking down the two main components of the grilling experience. See, while this next one may look like a penned-in bunch of baboon butts, you can tell by the "GRILLIN'" sticker that it's actually a grill:
Huh. Thank goodness for stickers, is all I can say.
Oh, and here's the raw, malformed lump that goes on it! Yum!
Now there's some bloody good fun, eh, guv'na? Jolly good, pip pip, and all that. (Hey, I've read Wodehouse
Shannon S., Amy J., Joanna C., & Nichole H., I'm suddenly inspired to find a doll on a grill, just so I can write the caption "Barbie on the barbie". Unless one of you knows a girl named Barbie? You could even turn the grill off, if you like.
UPDATE: Ask, and ye shall receive:
Barbie on the barbie!
Reader Comments (116)
That grillin' one looks like a netbag full of human intestines...why???
BBQ CAKES!? That's.... um... unique. Strange though. Very strange.
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Wow, those certainly look..appetizing...cause ya know, I've always dreamed of eating a cake that ooks like a hunk of meat!
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LOVE the skewered Elmo fingers LOL
Could be Elmo´s fingers or could be hairy caterpillars, whatever suits your taste...
Somehow, the idea of putting raw meat in my mouth--for dessert, no less--is less than appetizing.
WV braco=The sound one makes when heaving up steak-shaped cake.
My favorite Wodehouse phrase is when one character tells another, "You're taking up room I had planned for other things." Good stuff.
That last one...I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. :(
That last one is too gross to be believed. I shudder at the thought of biting into that, no matter how good it might actually taste.
I so wish I could see Elmo fingers in that first one, rather than what I really see: little screaming baby birds, with skewers shoved down their throats waiting to be burned alive.
Now, I really get a huge giggle out of the "ashy" grill picture--it's exceptionally difficult to find a SINGLE piece of "food" on the actual grate. Looks like everything just fell onto the heap o' white-hot frosting. What in blazes ARE they serving there, BTW? Looks to me like: already-been-sucked-on Hall's cough drops, choco-chip cookie bits, ripped-off penguin beaks (why do I keep seeing bird parts?), and little globs of shiny, green phlegm...
Mmmmm...is it ready yet? =^><^=
And Jen? Don't you LET them kid you! That really IS a "penned-in bunch of baboon butts" ! Who wouldn't know one of THOSE when they saw it???
"It's Memorial Day, and as every red-blooded American knows, there is only one nationally accepted way to demonstrate your sense of patriotic pride in the men and woman who have sacrificed for this country."
what just the one woman? tsk tsk Jen after all the mocking you do of others for their estranged typos ;) hehehe
the wreckorators shall have their revenge!
they may be the worst ever..
That gigantic slab of steak at the end is just delicious. By delicious, I mean wholly unappetizing.
I think that post must've given us all the 'willies'
I think the Giant steak one wins for most..... interesting.
and the charcoal briquettes is probably the best execution.
and the award for most appetizing goes to............... WV Ouddabus!
I don't know, the Grillin one looked more like sleeping naked mole rats to me.
See, it's times like these that I have to wonder who doesn't like cake looking like cake and has to be enticed to eat it by shaping it like something else. I mean, I can understand kids (or adults) not liking a vegetable unless it's hidden in something yummy, but cake? If you can't like cake as is by itself, then, well, I feel sorry for you.
That raw steak looks eerily realistic. That would really do a number on your brain - your tastebuds are expecting raw meat and get something sugary sweet instead. Blah.
Thanks for taking away my grumpies this morning!
eep! I'm presently happy that none of my friends read this unless I like it to them! My name is Barb, and yes, they would put me on the barbie for fun...
I nearly fell out of my chair at the shish kabab'ed Elmo fingers. Funniest thing I've seen in ages.
But that baboon butt cake? What is that even ... I'm just speechless. I can't put my finger on what the blobs look like, but it's something very gross that makes my stomach turn. I wouldn't eat that if I was paid.
If someone brought that first one out at a party, I think I would be mildly impressed! The others though are much, much worse.
I'm sure some one thought they were oh so funny with the "grilling" sticker. I just don't understand why anyone though "meat cake" is a good idea!!
Cake flavored meat. Huh.
Barbie on a grill... Hmmm...
"Blackhole sun, won't you come..."
For some reason, it's the perfect summer song for me. I've always been a strange gal. I literally grew up on that song and video, and Tom Petty's "Don't Come 'Round Here No More". Says a lot about me.
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Happy grilling! Happy Memorial Day, thanks to our troops.
"a penned-in bunch of baboon butts"???!!! LOL
I laughed myself sick! It was great! *sniff* Thanks Jen! ;)
THAT LAST ONE IS AWESOME.
No. These are wrong. Ugh!
~Amy B.
I fear that last one. The biggest fear would be that it would actually taste like steak, and it's just TOO rare for me!
Call me crazy, but I'm actually looking at this one, thinking that it's not so bad:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/ShoXQuVLAtI/AAAAAAAAC6k/pdRlMyKbJV0/s1600-h/agent+kaz-ow-grill.jpg
Maybe I'm just desensitized because I've seen much worse due to this site? hahaha.
Hither, my meat cake!
O, embrace, sweet buttercream
gristle temptation!
My 8 YO son, who doesn't read the copy, looked at the pink CCC grill and said, "Looks like anuses!"
I guess if they make meat flavoured cakes, they can make cake-flavoured meat.
yes I remember seeing years ago some concoction via the internet of people that made like meatloafor shepherds pie that looked like cake... gross...
Can''t remember the name of the owner of Charm City but one time on Ace of Cakes the crew made him a giant meatball cake for his birthday. That I can understand, but these others?
Raw meet... no matter if it's a cake... cant do it
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The very first one I like, but the grill itself is a little odd looking. I didn't see the steak for a very long time.
I'd think making these into a REAL cake would be so much easier. All the grills look oddly lumpy because they're CCCs.
The second to last looks like so many different organs, or reminds me of them, that I'm truly not sure what to say.
I would love to have that last one. Meat cakes crack me up. I love anything in the shape of another, but I think meat (or toast) are the best. I often wish that, when I have a wedding, to make it entirely out of cakes shaped like meat. :)
What-ho, ol' chum!
Ta muchly for another amusing post!
Always up for a good snicker.
Blah! Oh my. Those cakes look absolutely disgusting!
Yikes. These are gross. (Runs away covering eyes.)
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Holy crap. . . the last one--the hunk of meat--I think I threw up a little in my mouth at that one.
BBQ cakes is definitely NOT what I'm going to make the next time I bake. Eww.
You need to have the last laugh and invent a cupcake pan (if it doesn't exist already) that has some that are a different shape so that when they're all assembled they can make believable circles, curves, etc. Still pull-apartable but not as egregiously malformed.
You could make a mint off of the people you've mocked. :)
As George Carlin once put it, (in regards to leftovers)..."Could be meat.....could be cake........maybe it's meatcake?"
Props for PG Wodehouse! If you haven't seen Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in Jeeves and Wooster, you're missing out.
Blecchh!! Regarding first picture: Don't they know you're supposed to devein the shrimp before cooking?
I for one, am appalled.
I actually think the "steak cake" is a pretty stunning work of cake art based on how realistic it looks and the potential for confusing your tastebuds. Now, if someone could just make a hunk of raw steak look like a decorated frosted layer cake, and serve them together, that would be worthy of a gallery event!
Call me crazy, but I kind of like the one that looks like ashy charcoal briquettes. I mean, at least it's using the cupcakes' normal shape?
Elmo Fingers. I must serve these at my next party.
The first one is mildly impressive, if you ignore the bits of creeping multicolored mold, just waiting to come in and massacre those poor Elmo fingers. Look out, Massacring Mold is comin' to a steak cake (stake?) near you! D:
wv. rumas - I've been hearin' some rumas 'bout a steak cake somewhere.
Husband & I agree: the "shrimp" in the fist pic look like those ear thingies from Wrath of Khan. ewwwww
the first one looks like they are grilling a santa hat along with the elmo fingers