Monday
Mar142011
The WHAT of the Irish?
March 14, 2011 St. Patrick's Day is coming, and you know what that means, right?
Yeah, well, neither do these wreckerators."Ok, team, time to show our Irish spirit!
"Now, quick, make a bunch of dead leprechauns!"
I like it.
"Now the Geico Cavemen!"
Balancing eight apples on your head: so easy, a wreckerator can do it.
"Now the banana split!!"
Uh, boss? Don't you think these designs are getting a little str...
"NOW THE WHEELED SHAMROCK PIGGY OF DOOM! OF DOOOOM, I SAY!
AHAHAHAHAAA!!"
Um.
So.
You guys enjoy your St. Patrick's day, hear?
Thanks to wreckporters Mimi C., Lisa P., April A., Sara F., & Melissa B., who don't think the Irish seem quite so lucky anymore.
You're welcome.
Update from john: Some of you have sweetly pointed out ("...and you call yourself a geek?!?") that today is Pi Day. Sadly, we have nearly 14,000 cakes in our archives but very few explore the mathematical joy that is "Pi." However, that's not to say we don't have any Pi Wrecks:
You're welcome. 
Reader Comments (142)
Ahh!!! Donkey Kong ate the leprechauns!! What did they ever do to him?
That last one is a little odd! A pig on a gingerbread cookie, and a shamrock? Wow.
That first one's kind of cute...in a hideous sort of way, I mean...
I love how all wreckerators seem to think it's okay to use the gingerbread man cookie cutter willy-nilly through the year. Just because you slapped a huge, honkin' "shamrock" on it doesn't make it a St. Patrick's Day cookie. It makes it a gingerbread man with a huge, honkin'--dare I say--misshapen "shamrock" on it.
Merry St. Patmas, everyone!
That last one is ...is... I have no words. I have never laughed like I did with that one. I actually laughed out a "ho ho ho, ha, ha, ha". I know, I even scared myself!
Gasp! No pies? Yeah, I know, it's Cake Wrecks, not Pie Wrecks, but it's Pi Day! Come on! (mutter, mutter)...and you call yourself a geek...
ROTFLOL! Those were funny!
Cake 1: Looks like a McDonald's Fry Guy. With no legs.
Cake 2: He's not dead, he's just sleeping! I think passed out from the Irish Whiskey.
Cake 3: *giggle* @ Geico cavemen! Nice cauliflower ears.
Cake 4: Cupcake critters? There's 2 cupcakes under that mess? Ah Shamus, that be a banana in ye pocket o' ye just glad tah see me?
Cake 5: Um. Well, uh, I guess all I can say that boar hog may actually be useful. O.o
Despite having read every Cake Wrecks post, I still can be amazed at the fact that someone will put things like this out and expect people to pay for them!
That last one -- wow, that's one happy shamrock!
wv-herdmeni
I've herdmeni laughs come out of my mouth while reading Cake Wrecks.
awwwww!! The green Tribble is deh cutes!
I forgot my word verification...hymbil.
These wreckerators should eat hymbil Pi.
Pi-R-squared? No, pies are round!
I can't help but think the leprechaun is running away from those awful cc's or that last uhm, cake...
The last one, dear God, what is that...thing?
Um, that last one? Wow! I was literally saying "WTH?" It's awesome in it's tragicness.
Lisa, I'm glad someone else noticed the lack of pies! Since Pi day is also my birthday I haven't gotten cake in years but I'm sure there are at least a few math cakewrecks out there
Hey! I've been to Scotland, which everyone knows is almost the same as Ireland, and that qualifies me to be mortally offended by the assault on the very noble and dignified tradition of eating leprechauns for St. Patrick's day. They're delicious!
;-)
The wheeled shamrock piggie of doom is VERY HAPPY TO SEE YOU. VERY. HAPPY.
Be afraid.
WV - strems: It's amazing the strems the truly talent-free will go to in making a "holiday" cake...
#1 - Oh, yum, broccoli. I used to stare at my veggies and now it's returning the favor.
Dead leprechaun - I hope there are cupcakes on top of that cake, otherwise that's two solid inches of icing.
The faces of the Geico cavemen are well done. If they had just left it at that.
Two hats and two, um, er, yes, bananas.
Another example of solid icing. *smiles innocently*
The first one looks like it's from a production of Salomé, with Oscar the Grouch as John the Baptist.
I believe the dead leprechaun is actually squeezing his eyes shut and shielding them against the horror. As are we all.
I was going to say that 4th one looks like the melted Wicked Witch - just hat & shoes - but there are two hats there! Looks like a boob cake gone bad!
Ummm...so that last one is The Gingerbread Man incognito as one of the Three Little Pigs wearing a "shamrock" right? Oh, I knew that his $500-a-day frosting habit would lead to a life of bank robbing crime in the wilds of South Boston!!
What, nothing for pi day?
Than again, I suppose π cakes are hard to come by...
Great post, but I think you are forgetting a different holiday that should be commemorated on this day. I know you are a cake site, but what about Pi day?
On that last one, see the Celts venerated the boar. And a boar is really just a wild pig. And boars were considered a fertility symbol, so the--uh--happy shamrock is--well symbolical.
And the wheels are some sort of sun thing for the return of spring.
Either I've been reading too much Celtic mythology lately, which is entirely possible, or I've been taking CW too seriously.
I'm going to go sleep for a while.
WV: drazones. "Then the drazones attacked."
When I think of st patty's day...I think of bananas?
Where's the PI day cakes??? Or, at least PI day pies??? With all your sci-fi and geek references, I expected more from you, Jen (shakes head).
Ah poor little leprechaun, and he looked like he was in the middle of doing "Riverdance" too!
I cannot believe that today's post was about St. Patrick's Day. Today is PI DAY, people! It's 3/14! You guys needed to post about Pi. I'm sure there are some horribly mishapen pi cakes out there. Go and find them!
Happy Pi Day everyone!
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
Cake #1 looks like the "Cousin Itt" version of a leprechaun!
We unexpectedly came across a huge pre-St.Patrick's Day march & gathering in London yesterday (those Irish know how to celebrate....) and while we saw all sorts of green headgear, face paintings, pipes, and many other green/Irish objects, there weren't any bananas wearing hats.......
At first I thought the leprechauns had rollers/curlers in their hair.
Pyrex - love it!
For those of you looking for Pi cake... http://redglassfire.deviantart.com/art/Pi-Day-Cake-115953210
Of course the only wrecky thing about it is that there is math all over it.
pyrex! lulz.
The decorators who would recognize pi day as the celebration that it is are able to calculate how to properly execute their designs. The sin(e) of pi is 0.
Two hats+two long things = major wreckage
Dear John,
Thank you for the Pi Wrecks joke. It made my day. Seriously. It's been a while since I've heard a good pun and that was pretty awesome.
M
Love the pi wrecks visual pun! :-)
As an Irish ginger, I had to comment. I'm ashamed of these wreckerators, destroying my heritage. Ashamed!!
Love the blog (and Epbot) and am grateful you brighten up my day with the hilarity. :-)
It took me 10 full seconds to get the Pyrex one, but then I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Pi Wrecks!!!! Love it!!
I tried soooooo hard not to laugh at the Pi wrecks, but I'm ashamed to say that 5 minutes later I'm still giggling.
Pie Wrecks. Groan!
Hey guys, John is going to approximate Pi Day later this year, on 22/7.
I'm just thankful the "shamrock" on the pig wasn't upside down.
((shudder))
wv: inalos
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated inalos of places around the world.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Thank you for making my day. You really did. I was having "that" kind of day, and this just totally changed it. THANK YOU!!
PS My dog is looking at me funny because I'm still chortling over that Pi Wrecks joke. :-D
Would it be correct to call the pig-faced thing a leper-con?
@Anon: It looks more like Corning Visions glass ceramic...Pyrex cookware is (if European) clear borosilicate glass or (if in North America) greenish soda-lime glass--the main difference between the Pyrexes is the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). The brownish color of Visions is from the phase-separated ceramic. The type of glass is important when it comes to baking, since the CTE (and therefore susceptibility to thermal shock) determines whether the glass will break upon cooling or heating. The scientists designing the glass must have had some understanding of pi to design the glass. It is a pie pan made using pi, which relates to St. Patrick's day because food could be cooked in it. Let's hope the bakers understood the difference between these types of glass or they could create a dangerous wreck.
Wow, didn't get the Pi Wreck one until I read the comments. Sigh.
I actually did make a math cake last summer! My significant other is a physicist, so I wrote out "Happy Birthday (his name)!" in mathematical symbols that roughly looked like the letters. I don't think it's a wreck though! He really liked it. And since I'm fully a humanities person who barely understands basic algebra, it was quite an undertaking for me.
So yeah. There's one math cake in the world. And it was red velvet.
--kate
Anon @ 1:46,
Actually, it says "Pyrex" on the bottom.
john