Wednesday
Mar302011
Babel Fish Needed
March 30, 2011 You know that optical illusion that looks like an old woman one way, and a young girl the other?
Well, this cake is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike that.
So far I've assembled a list of 42 different words that this might be, including "@Loehoe," "Soekuc,"and "Slartibartfast." And yes, so far as I know, this is supposed to be "English."
Anyway, I've given up.
In fact, I can't help but be impressed by this individual's cryptography skills. Hey NSA, I've got your next Enigma machine right here! Think about it: for the cost of a piping bag and some chocolate, you'll never have to fear Wikileaks again. Eh?
So long, Jackie W., and thanks for all the fish.
Achtung!!! Es tut mir leid; Ich bin eine Sachertorte! Fahrvergnügen! Neenër neenër!
Reader Comments (281)
i think it is supposed to be a "sacher" torte. a badly done sacher torte.
My first thought was "Loeher", but now that I've read the comments, it's definitely "Sacher".
Mmm... I could go for some Sachertorte right now.
*squints* Hmm, I think it's... umm... nope, I got nothin'.
I say it's SOEHOE.
Imagine, the little label in the pastry case that reads: "Sachertorte". Next, imagine hundreds of customers pointing at the cake and asking "What kind is that?" [brief interlude with chocolate script] Now, the pastry chef can glare at the cusdumber, smile politely and say "See?? It says the name there on the cake! Can you not read?? Eh??"
- Rev W
Yep, it's a Sacher Torte. For some reason, it's traditional to write that on top... Imagine if we did that with ALL desserts!
-Amy
I know, it says Sookeh!
Best served with Advanced Tea Substitute.*
*Note: To facilitate categorization, this is an attempt to be witty by including a Hitchhiker's reference.
Ivanhoe?
~Diana
@Monica: truly, a mostly harmless wreck. Nicely done.
I agree with the "Sacher" vote, although I'm also liking "Sucker" (which I think would be hilarious) and @Lecher. Or @Loehvl.
Epcot, definitely epcot...
I'd say this baker succeeded, I don't notice the spelling errors at all...
That's a Sacher torte!
I laughed as soon as I saw this -- even before all the Hitchhiker's references.
When I was a cake decorator, they hired a lady who came from what she considered an upscale bakery. Everything had to be done like it was done there. One thing she liked to make was a sacher torte, and, yes, she had to write "sacher" on it in big loopy letters. Not because anyone in our little grocery store would know what that is. Just because that's the way they did it at "s" bakery.
Jen
@Anon at 11:19 - Forgive my ignorance, but unless the Sachertorte tradition also requires the icing label to be illegible, I'm sticking with considering it a wreck. And a darn good one at that! =0)
i got the references! so proud of myself! lol
This hoopy frood is going with 42!
Kudos to you for actually finding words in that...I got nothing.
It says Sacher, its the traditional way of finishing a Sacher Torte
I'm pretty sure it does say "Slartibartfast", but I told you it wasn't important.
Soho spelled incorrectly as "Soehoe"
_dee_
It's got to be "Twelve" spelled out in cursive.
Ummm, chocolate. Good bite, and thanks for all the fishing for references! Dolphinitely!
im pretty sure its just random squiggles.
i got nothin'
Hooray for Hitchhiker references!
It says 'Sacher'. It's a Sacher Torte...and that's what they always say on them
I'd like to buy a vowel, Pat?
I think someone threw the icing at the ground and missed.
If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of piping bags . . .
Well, it's definitely NOT 'Sacher' - if the first letter is a fancy S, then the 2nd doesn't look like an 'a'; and if the 'a' is within with 'S', then there's too many letters. Plus, why write just 'Sacher' on a Sachertorte? I like the suggestion that it's Jackie, with the 'J' and 'e' getting a little out of hand :-)
I loved all the Hitchhiker's refs!!! You're a nerd's angel :-)
It says Sacher ,its a traditional sachertorte, austrian cake and that is how you decorate them.
I think the picture of the cake is upside-down.
If you rotate it, it clearly says "Znjoago."
oh and it is gratifying to a middle aged Brit (who actually listened to the radio series when it first came on and watched it on BBC tv etc)that you bolshie ex-colonials are so appreciative of such British humour.Do you get the bits that take the p*** of you?
No, no, you guys, it's one of those three dimensional cakes, where the letters stack on top of each other! So instead of being a single word, it is indeed a whole phrase, which if you have the proper knowledge and technology to read would say:
Attention Lemmings:
Immigrating
Lungfish
Keep
Unfortunate
Lightsabers
It's clearly from Canada. *firm nod*
New category: carpel tunnel syndrone [sic]
A restriction of the humor nerve due to repetitive restatement of corrective "facts"
A good sacher-punch need only be delivered once. Any further constitute cake battery
Maybe it says: Sacher? As in type of cake Sacher torte?
And out come the informers....at what level EPCOT are we now? ;-D
It's probably Zaphod's 'autograph'.
wv: ductrola: When all else fails...ductrola it!
Oh, GOOD! I'm not the only one without a clue as to what the what that's supposed to say...
I'm going against the (Epcot) flow...
I think it says, "Seder," but I'm not Jewish, so I don't know how likely it is that a Seder cake would be labeled that way.
I have always loved you, but the Hitchiker's references just made me love you even more!
Informer warning (plus highly superior):
When I was in Austria last summer, all the Sachertortes were plain, even those from the Sacher hotel.
I hate to admit this, but I actually see the "Sacher". The thing that looks like a duck is an S, the thing that looks like a peach is an a, the thing that looks like an e is a c, the thing that looks like someone was testing a pen is an h, the second thing that looks like an e really is an e, and the thing that looks like the gear fell off your spirograph is an r.
I don't know why fifty million people all gotta tell you the same thing, but then again, even if I squint really hard, turn my monitor upside down & my head sideways, I still can't see "sacher" in that writing. So what do I know?
I love you guys.
Soerer?
I'm thinking this person either loves or hates True Blood, because that cake definitely says "SOOKEH!"
YES! Thank you for the HGTTG references!
The mice made that one for Arthur
Looker?
That's my best guess.
Only one cake?
Where did you get the German from???
I agree with the other poster that it looks like" twelve" to me. The First letter is supposed to be a fancy "T", not an "S".