Monday
Nov152010
Clean Out Your Fridge Day
November 15, 2010 Today is National Clean Out Your Fridge Day! I know, I'm excited, too... mostly because the only things in my fridge are a box of old butter and a half-eaten tube of cookie dough. Still, for those of you who only wish they were so lucky, here are a few handy guidelines:
You might need to clean out your fridge if:
...you're staring at your leftovers and they start staring back.
...last week's pizza is flakier than your Aunt Milda's scalp.
...your lemons and limes are "spreading their seeds."
...last week's spaghetti and meatballs remind you to get your prostate checked.
...your squeaky-clean crisper gets more squeaky than clean.
...the top shelf items band together to form a new life form.And the kids want to keep it.
You should probably move.Myra T., Eric B., Hillary G., Laura P., Leah C., Rachel P., Sibel D., & Candi S., call me if you find any pudding cups back there. I'll send you my address.
Reader Comments (85)
if i didn't think it would stink to high heaven i'd want to keep the critter in the second last pic too.
Pretty sure that sixth one lives in my crisper or, as I call it, "where good food goes to die".
The last one would make me lose my appetite for cake. Glad I read CW in the morning and not just before bedtime.
Oh my. Top shelf leftovers critter is...
*blink blink*
...well, he's not ugly. But I'd neither want to eat that cake, or keep it for a pet.
Roach cake is scary. And wrong. And the most awful thing I have seen on this site.
Not joking.
I might have a slight fear of roaches.
Wow, reminder to self - clean out the fridge. ~shudder~
Jen & John, I received my calendar today - thanks so much!! It's absolutely wonderful, and I think I need to order several for Christmas gifts. I didn't expect to see so many classic wrecks on a 12-month calendar!!
"You might need to clean out your fridge if...last week's pizza is flakier than your Aunt Milda's scalp."
Gag me with a spoon. So gross!!
Hah.
If we kept the next to the last one, I'd have to name him.
This is the first post to really horrify me. EW!
This is the first post that has really horrified me. EW!
Add me to the list of people who think the second-to-last is kinda cute, although not something that would make me want to eat.
The spaghetti*meatballs one though, I think I need to throw up now.. yuck...
And the bug is just a bug. I'd eat it, so long as I didn't get the head part LOL.
w/v: undip - to want to eat these cakes, they all need to be "undip"ped from their disgusting icing covers
These are disgusting. bleeech
I ready Kay's post at 9:48 too fast (ok, I was skimming) and I thought it said self cleaning fridge! I want that. Can you see it? The door opening and a pusher just pushes all the shelves clean, right into the garbage! I think I have an invention here.
Y'know, I think I've had enough of cakes that look like some other food. If you want a pizza--flaky or otherwise--why not just eat a pizza?
Also, I want to know exactly how it is you know what's on the top shelf of my fridge. That's creepy, Jen.
I don't know why anyone would want to eat any of those cakes. Blurgh.
WV: swolin
I think that cake might be infected, it looks a bit swolin.
Ok, this might be the first time the cakes *actually* made me nauseous!! Why would you make cake that looks like horrid...rancid....inedible food?!
What kind of person in their right mind goes to a bakery and orders a salad cake?! Much less a roach cake?!
Top-Shelf-Critter is kinda cute with that lopsided smile but I can see it turning nasty if it is not supplied with new and tasty top shelf items on a regular basis.
The spaghetti and pizza cakes are just evil.
There's a Nietzsche quote somewhere in that first picture...
The roach cake is horrible. Especially as I had a roach like that crawling on my kitchen counter on Friday. (My kitchen is not dirty, by the way--I live in an old house in the south and the roaches just come inside, even if you spray.) The roach kindly committed suicide in a pot of soapy water in the sink. But I have no desire to bake a cake commemorating the event!
Ehheheheeewwwww!
*scream!scream!scream!*
GIANT ROACH CAKE!! OMG, dude, run!!
If you need me, I'll be standing on my couch, pointing at the computer screen and screaming about the giant roach cake until my husband comes home and clicks the browser closed.
The first wreck reminds me of Mayor McCheese? Scary, just like the last wreck - any bug cake should not be allowed.
Clean Out Your Fridge - just *once* a year?! No wonder there are new life forms on the top shelf.
I wanted to say I HOPE that pizza is actually a cake, but looking at it a second time...ummmm no I really dont hope it is. Either way I would trash it ASAP! Oh and the fridge creature would be secretly spirited away by my kids before I even noticed he had obtained life, lol. Though to be fair they would get tired of it in a week and I would find it at my feet begging to be fed.
I agree with horrifying --- those are truly awful. The top shelf leftovers cake,though... Yeah, I think I saw that in my refrigerator this morning...
This post is a reminder of what my husband has been hounding me about for the past two weeks.
The roach cake makes me not want to eat cake, and I'm 9 months pregnant and will eat ANYTHING. But I wouldn't put that near my mouth if you paid me.
I'm changing religions... to anything that won't celebrate National Clean Out Your Fridge Day...
and a cockroach cake is just going a teensy bit too far...ew
Yikes. The last one made me flinch.
Why would someone do that to perfectly good cake and frosting?
Point the car toward Epcot, Mildred, we're all throwing up in here.
Seriously, this is the first CW post that has given me chills. Gack!
no way, there's a Clean Out Fridge Day? what timing...
i spent half of yesterday doing just that. i pulled out the shelves and drawers and everything... [given there was only condiments, tortillas and kraft cheese in there.] then i pulled out the stove and scrubbed it in an out. and the microwave. and the washer and dryer.
it just so happened that i have run out my housemates... so i did some detailing yesterday. the house served as a bachelor pad for three years. imagine the ruin that took place. heh heh.
oh, and, ...the top shelf items band together to form a new life form.
LOL! brilliant!
Okay, what is the lemon/lime cake supposed to be? Seriously.
I guess I'd better clean out my fridge then. Dang, thanks for telling me! Great post though.
I REALLY, really, really can't believe that some of these cakes are "professional." It just boggles the mind.
I wish I'd known today was clean our your fridge day. I cleaned mine out yesterday!
How many roaches does it take to screw in a light bulb? Don't know - when the lights come on, they all scatter!
Speaking of, why didn't this one scatter? *shudder*
I'd name the top shelf cake Goobacca - Gooey for short. Who's a gooey slime? Whooooo's a good gooey slime? Yes you are! Yes, you're a gooey slime! Good boy!
O.o OK, I'm afraid for myself!
wv spitputs: Spitputs the lotion in the bucket.
or
A little hard work and spitputs a squeaky clean shine on those refrigerator shelves.
Quite a lot of 'firsts' in the comments ("...first post that has really horrified me," etc.) -- welcome to all those who just started viewing CW today or yesterday. ;-)
Now check out the archives. Heh heh heh...
wv: plessn. Plessn...dreams?
Regarding Item 6, 1 question: what WAS it SUPPOSED to be? Perhaps it is an embodied koan - "if a cake looks like nothing on earth, is it still a cake?"
Will be thinking of this all day. Weird, but true.
Thanks for stretching my imagination. ;-D
hugs to you both,
Deborah in California
Forget cake... forget food at this point! I used to think my fridge had some unidentifiable stuff. Not anymore.
The creature of the newly formed is quite ... creative.
Is it me, or does that pizza look like it was formed partially with bacon?
I have no idea why ANYone would want that last cake - special order for the MIB? Wow. Ick.
I don't think I'll finish my lunch now, thank you.
~~Di
Ok...
EEEEEWWWWWW!!!!
I don't know what was worse - the cakes or the descriptions!!
I wish I had a small portion of your descriptiveness - Aunt Milda's scalp? Really?!? Awesome!
Aw, that next-to-last guy's pretty cute! And he even has his own chocolate tiara! (Wut?)
LOL LOL LOL! That last one was tooo funny!
D: That roach cake...GROSS! DX
But that would be a good prank gift...
Seriously? Roach cake? Ugggggggg
There is a short story by Kafka in that last cake!
Beth S. said...
Like the rest of the bunch, the pizza and meatball cakes both made me gag. Glad I just ate lunch or I'd have lost my appetite. I just can't imagine, either, what you would be celebrating with a cake featuring mice nibbling on corn. Just plain weird.
Wow. This is the the first post on Cake Wrecks that actually made me gag.
Yuck.
Who actually wrote this? The humour is so different...
"is flakier than your Aunt Milda's scalp"??
"your lemons and limes are spreading their seeds"??
Prostate exams?
No subtleties are missing.
The lemon/lime spreading their seeds will be forever engraved in my mind.
Kids hell! I want to keep it! Maybe it's more trainable than the kids or the hubs.