What's Our Name? And What Are We Celebrating?
July 5, 2010 Yesterday we came together as a nation to celebrate. What we were celebrating depends on which bakery you visited.
This one is really fond of "Ame:"
The good news is that this is a "display only" cake. So your cake probably won't look like this.It'll be much, much worse.
Here's a bakery that appreciates blue bananas and dive-bombing banana spiders:
Yellow Spider: "Cowabungaaa!!!"
See, when you put the blue bit in the middle, it's more balanced.Another option:
Because stripes are so last century.Then there was the slightly less popular but still wildly successful "Redesign America" contest:
All these years, and I had no idea I was living in a giant uvula.
Today doesn't need yesterday OR tomorrow. Yeah. So there.
Either that plastic flag is upside down, or this is a really patriotic volcano/mushroom cloud. Or - OR - the American version of the eye of Sauron: the eye of Sam, maybe? Eh? Eh? Bwahahahaaa!
Hm? No, actually, I didn't get much sleep last night. Why do you ask?
Free dome enjoys ringing. Free dome wants to ring.So let the dome ring, man. Let it ring.
Thank goodness wreckporter Gina asked this bakery what "4ID" stood for.Sally B., Ariel L., Elizabeth J., Leslie J., Rebekah W., Laura T., Beth H., Jaela N., Dawnan H., & Gina P., gr8 w!
Reader Comments (88)
The CCC sort of looks like udders. Maybe it is a tribute to the farmlands. It seems they don't like many of the other states anyways.
Some people like milk with their cake, apparently.
"God bless Ame..." is obviously the visible part of a pre-fab message, probably on paper. The giant 'cake wreck awareness ribbon' / horse collar (we're talking serious frosting here) was added to hold the edges down. Pointy-haired Boss would be proud of the engineering that went into that.
Is the American flag that hard to come by this time of year? Might not one see a proper example on the way to the wreckery? Or elsewhere in the store, perhaps?
Next, Carl's Jr. covers America (with frosting). Why the United Cupcakes would be on a burlap background escapes me. Nice rendition of the Isthmus of Florida, though.
Speaking of CC's, Uncle Sam's hat with an upside down flag could be appropriate. These wreckerators certainly need some kind of help...
Well, not meaning to attack nice folk or defend dimwits, but Americans play pretty fast and loose with their Stars & Stripes. From Captain America's shield to string bikinis to bumper stickers, as long as it has a star, a stripe and red, white & blue are the colours, any design is patriotic.
4ID?? I would have never guessed!
Oh my, oh my ... don't know what else to say!
Cake 5:
Am I the only one who sees a grinchy hand reaching to pluck a star right off that cake.
Happy Independent Day?
I am disappoint. :-|
I personally love to celebrate Independant Day by letting freedome ring. God Bless Ame.
As per Homer Simpson - it's not a uvula, it's "America's wang".
Glad "4ID" was explained. If you live in the Ft. Hood area, 4ID means 4th Infantry Division!
I couldn't get a pic, but I saw a 4th of July cake at a local grocery store this weekend that was an extremely artfully done CCC (patoie etc) of a big crab. Claws, eyestalks, etc. Crab. With "Happy 4th of July" written on it, spelled correctly and written beautifully. On a CRAB.
-Nena
You contrast today's cakes with the "Sunday Sweets" cakes, and you weep. Not with joy, either.
wv - salast - Salast time I expect a baker to actually know what Independence Day means... Sigh...
Number 8 is a smurf with a red and white beard. He's trendy.
LOL! Because stripes are so last century. Well, y'know, horizontal stripes aren't very slimming & what with everyone being so weight conscious these days, just saying.
Wow when did Florida get as big as Texas???
Oooo the eye of Sam, so that's what that light really is on top of the Washington Monument.
Could the last one's be anymore uninspired.
I actually LOVE the first cake. My name is Ame and my birthday is on July 4th. I about fell out of my chair when I saw this blog. That cake would have been perfect for me yesterday!!
--Ame Franks
4ID
4th Infantry Division
Thank goodness you're here to provide Wreckage Translation. Otherwise I would have humiliated myself by allowing free dome to Bing.
Is it too late to move to Canada? Or did we go too far with our butchered songs and menstrual cakes?
"ID" is my usual abbreviation for identify or identification. I suppose I'm for identification...
I would ask 4ID of the person that made that cake. And then promptly smack them with a candle for taking a shortcut lol. I had to look at yesterdays cakes just so I wouldn't cry looking at these but that blue "banana" nearly had me choking with laughter until I saw the spiders and hid under my chair.. I hate spiders lol.
Looking at the mushroom Sauron jellyfish cake made me wonder: doesn't flotsam usually come with a pointy end that you shove into the poor defenceless cake in order to make it stay put? I get the odd feeling that maybe the pointy end is on the wrong end of the flag. I'm an Aussie and even I know which way up it's meant to be :D
wv - tedukerc: the sad little choking sound made when one accidentally swallows the flotsam
That 70s show! :) Free Dome wants a popsicle...go get him a popsicle man!
Wow... is that supposed to be a yellow ribbon, on the first cake? As for the bananas on cake #2 my vote is for fireworks, but that certainly doesn't explain the spiders. Mushroom cloud = supposed to be Uncle Sam's hat works for me! And, I too thought the Harry Potter reference was a slightly modified Indiana Jones reference, lol.
Saturday night I has this dream where a woman I knew (who I don't know in real life) had three sons, and they all qualified to go on this tv show. You know what show it was? It was the Kay Krex show, WITH Bakerella! So I'm sitting there in this public place (in the dream) sobbing because I don't get to be on tv with Kay Krex and Bakerella. :(
...I *think* it's 'cause I'd spent a couple hours catching up on this blog and then found out about some cake contests on Bakerella's blog, (www.bakerella.com) but it could also be a sign of my heart's true desire.
Does anyone else think the 'things' on the second cake are ribbed, albeit patriotic, condoms...or is it just me?
As for the spiders? Not going there. No way. Nuh uh.
Agreed that the 4ID cake likely was supposed to be ID4, because of the movie. There could be worse things they put on there, obviously, but why would you decorate a cake with something when even YOU don't know what it means?
I totally got the 4ID cakes, but it's because people started calling the movie Independence Day ID4 after a while.
The sideways one with the light blue and the stripes--what IS it?? Is it a flag? Is it an Uncle Sam hat? WHAT IS IT =0
I'm just going to pretend those last ones were a tribute to my husband's old unit, the Fourth Infantry Division, even though the unit's color, green, and it's symbol, ivy, do not show up, even remotely.
But it all makes sense now...sort of! And any other explanation just doesn't...make sense.
Actually, it would violate the US Flag Code to make an actual flag cake, as flags are not supposed to be placed on temporary objects that will be thrown away, eaten, etc (including napkins). There's no penalty for violating the Flag Code, but maybe the bakers are avoiding the real design so as not to annoy the purists, hyperpatriots, and/or former Boy Scouts. (I know enough of the Flag Code that I am amused when people violate it in the course of trumping up their patriotism).
Or maybe that's giving the bakers too much credit. :)
Why couldn't they have been butterflies?
the mushroom cloud looks like a hat to me
That 4ID cake wasn't sold in Arizona, was it?
The '4ID' cake reminds me of when Independence Day with Will Smith came out. All the local cinemas had 'ID4' instead of the actual title up.
Yay Harry Potter Reference!
ok #2 looks like an independence day inspired pack of condoms!
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4th Infantry Division?
I was thinking the last cake stood for the 4th Infantry Division; of the US Army. I guess it would depend on where the baker is from.
I have never laughed so hard
I have never laughed so much in my life. I was crying and I think I peed my pants at the same time.
Banana spiders
know they must strike now, while the
naner is burnt black.