Wednesday
Mar162011
Shamrocks? How About ShamPOOS?
March 16, 2011 
AHAHAHAHAAA!!Ew.
Those almost make me long for the days of anthropomorphized, lumpy-armed clover characters.
Almost.Ok, I think it's time we addressed the elephant in the room, guys.
Otherwise he'll just keep trampling on all the shamrocks.
Besides, maybe he'll remember what one looks like.
Nooo...
Not quite...
Egads! A pox upon thine cake!
Hey, you know what it is? I think I figured it out: the bakers just need a base of reference! A small photo, perhaps, or some shamrock-shaped things, perhaps made out of plastic...
Oh.Never mind.
Psst. Feelin' "lucky," punk?
'Cuz with fronds like those, you've definitely got anemones.Thanks to Trina D., Michele T., Cara H., Alena C., Sara, Coreena N., Nell B., Robin, and also the elephant in the room, who, when confronted with today's wrecks, offered this insightful commentary:
We hear ya, dude.
Reader Comments (81)
That first one is so disgusting. Ugh! I'm glad I haven't eaten breakfast yet.
Here's shampoo for our real friends, and real poo for our sham friends
I was giggling at the cakes and commentary, but that elephant made me lose it. Could we please ask him to go trample the CCCs (ptooie!)?
Rule one of piping (which, oddly enough, they do NOT cover in Wilton classes): NEVER pipe greenish-brown icing.
I do believe I'd take a CCC (ptooie) over that nasty mess in the first one.
Okay, I always read the other commenters saying they spewed coffee across their keyboards, but I never actually did this myself until I read the "fronds" and "anemones" line today!! Kudos, CW, you have outdone yourself.
That poor green peacock, with those ugly brown pock mocks on it's tail feathers!
And the first one definitely is the same stuff I scoop out of the cat box. No question.
wv: sedican
Baker: What's your problem? I never sedIcan draw a shamrock.
Wouldn't all of these malformed shamrocks make a person UNlucky?
Just sayin.'
I, too, lost it at "fronds" and "anemones." And the elephant was just too adorably funny. My morning has been made!
Is it just me, or do some of those shamrocks look like elephants? Especially the first big one...
The first one reminds me of what I just found in my son's diaper. Same color and everything.
WV: perts. Hey, Jen and John, comparisons to green baby poo is just one of the perts of your job.
BAHAHAHA! oh poopy St. Patrick's Day cake, why are you so poopy? Who cares, as long as I get my morning laugh fix <3 :)
Sham...WOW
Normie
WV - Banin "After seeing these wrecks we should be banin shamrocks on cakes."
When I saw the title to this post, I thought "NOOoooo!"
But I clicked anyway. :)
(And I think that poxed one is actually the very rare bio-botanical hybrid known as the Shamurkey.)
Tiny baby elephant: Adorable.
Sham-Poo cupcakes: Not so much...
Oh, and I think you switched two pictures, there in the middle... (I'm pretty sure the Sham-peacock was supposed to go with the commentary on the picture below it).
Blech to the first one. To the rest-WTF! O_o
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
"with fronds like those you've definately got anemones" BRAVO!! BRAVO!!
(Couldn't you find any deep fried shamrock cakes? What a shame)
Is Cake #6 made from a turkey template?
That first one looks a lot like the gifts my dog left in the living room the other night, when he wasn't feeling so well & nobody was awake to let him go outside....
Long time viewer, first time poster...
I have to say this is the first time a cake on here has made my stomach roll. The first one with the mossy/moldy sham-poos is pretty gnarly.
Gumby! I used to love that show when I was a kid.
Rainbows! with garnish.
The Blob! or a misshapen cactus.
Stingray!
Peacock!
Dragonfly!
um...I think I just failed the Rorshach test.
hahaha "A pox upon thine cake"! I had to try really hard not to laugh loudly & wake my sleeping child! Great post!
LOL ShamPOO!! that green is way off...and the consistency is icky...like someone who ate too much green icing....
#5 looks like an elephant
#6 looks like a shamcock? (shamrock/peacock hybrid)
#7 is a wonky umbrella.
wv: ensmint. when you taste said green icing and realize the flavor--"ensmint!"
Poor little Leprechaun must have one heckuva bad flu to produce those awe-inspiring poo-piles. But i must thank you...Nothing better than a poo-cake to help me stick with the diet ... appetite officially G-O-N-E!
Note to self: no more reading CW before breakfast. Really.
(and kudos for the R&J reference...)
-michelej
So... nobody's up in arms to angrily defend THIS beautiful manifestation of a beloved culture?
...anybody?
(crickets)
:P
Happy non-Epcot day to you all.
Ugh, I just about lost my breakfast looking at the first one & I haven't even eaten yet!
The third cake from the bottom looks like it started out as a turkey cake and then just got covered with green frosting to make it look like a clover.
"'Cuz with fronds like those, you've definitely got anemones."
I just have to say this is the finest pun I have seen in a long time. You got a mastery of botany, zoology, and a popular saying all into just nine words. Wow!
Now, while St. Patrick's Day has a reputation as a drinking holiday, I would like to point out the following:
1) Bakers should not drink before decorating the cakes as wonky shamrocks result.
2) Customers should drink before picking up the cakes so they won't notice the wonky shamrocks.
3) There is not enough alcohol on the planet to make anyone want to eat that first...um...thing.
What's up with the green turkey?
My Mom has shamrocks growing in her garden. They look nothing like these cakes- or the green plastic things either for that matter.
WV: rentede: these cake wreckerators just rentede some cake decorating videos so they will do better next time.
nice owl city reference. love it!
We hereby offer you ShamPoo, because we don't have any real poo....
WV: splartiv. Seems like an appropriate new word (adj.) to describe that first wreck.
I'll take anthropomorphized anything over cakes like the first one. It's like when, as children, we made mud pies out by the barn, and... well, you know how that turned out.
Why use shampoo when you obviously have so much of the real thing?
wv: flizzyma-- I don't know what to do with that, but just thought I'd share.
ShamPOO indeed. *shudders* o_O
Oh, and bonus points for the Finding Nemo reference. :D
You know what, say what you will, but I think the sham-poos are actually the closest ones to shamrock shapes. How sad is that??
WV: chedojo. Where left-wing revolutionaries go to work out.
Finding Nemo! That was a Finding Nemo reference, right? Cuz if it wasn't... then this is really embarrassing. *looks around innocently* *runs away*
Yeah, it's logically hypothetical to assume one could pipe 3 simple loop shapes when they've got a plastic template right in front of them, but I guess we can just cut them some slack and say, nice try, guys! "Close enough!" (in quotation marks! Because "quotes" make things more "funner"!!!! Ever!!! Always!!! Ok, I'm getting ahead of myself here).
I'm sorry, but the "anthropomorphized, lumpy-armed clover character" looks like male parts holding a dog bone!
Haha, the second picture down is from Meijer...one of the corporate-designated CCC's for St. Patty's Day. This is NOT what it's supposed to look like!
My fave is the second to last, with the tiny plastic references all around the edge as well as right on the "clover"...AWESOME!
And, Jen, you gotta design a CW keyboard protector...I think a lot of your readers need one!
Cheers!
Lovely post today!
I say any piping with the round tip should be off-limits. No one seems to be able to use it right, no matter what color the frosting is. Ugh!
The first one makes me want to go to the top of Mount Wanna-hock-a-loogie. Blecht!
The rest made me think of Gumby, peacocks, and that people just don't have a clue.
Awwwwwwww cute widdle baby elephant! :-)
wv: bodeba: Barry Manilow singing with a cold...At the bodeba, bodeba banana, the hoddest spot nord of Habana
This was a funny post, as usual, but Flartus' comment about the Shamurkey made me LOL for real!
wv: gesti - I gesti baker has never seen a real shamrock before!
@MC: I was wondering the same thing. ;)
LOL gotta love when they include "unnecessary quotation marks". The one looked more like a peacock...
Some of these sham rocks look better than those cakes:
http://fakerock.com/
Those cupcakes...
The color...disgusting! The texture...blech. The idea of eating them...eeeeeeewwwwww!