Send Up the Jolly Roger!
September 19, 2011 Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day, but rather than plunder the script of the Disney Pirates ride like I usually do, I've decided to instead look at that most iconic of piratey things: the Jolly Roger.
Now, the Jolly Roger is usually a skull and crossbones on a black flag:
But when recreated on a cookie:
...it becomes a petrified Scottish Terrier.
Or maybe a French Poodle. Or German Shepherd. Irish Wolfhound? Oh! Norwegian Ridgeback! English Bulldog!!
Ahem.
For those less canine-inclined, there's also this option:
Those look like some real fun guys. Dude.
Here's one that'll strike fear in the hearts of witches and wizards everywhere:
No bones about it: There is now a Dark Mark on this bakery's record. Tsk, tsk.
And if you think that'd be better without all the airbrushing...
;)
You'd be right.
But it also kind of looks like a moose.
And finally, my personal favorite:
The Jolly Roger from American Dad.
Relax; I'm sure he means you no harrrrrrm.
Thanks to Alana F., Cheryl L., Melissa F., Roxanne B., & Robin H. for all the pirated material. Now, chocolate moose, anyone?
Reader Comments (51)
Definitely not a Norwegian Ridgeback. Those look more like a wrecky pirate parrot.
the norwegian ridgeback is a dragon from the harry potter series. the dog most similarly named is the rhodesian ridgeback :) though I think either is a good comparison!
that last one looks more like an alien than a jolly roger- do Scully and Mulder know about this?
Norwegian Ridgeback! Named Norbert, by any chance?
He's very very short on... charrrrm!
All they need to do is write "Roswell" under the X on that last cake, and it becomes "X marks the spot for the alien landing." But that would be for "talk like an alien day," I guess. Klaatu barada nikto.
I'd like to start my first Epcot, please:
Shepherd - German Shepherd.
Thank you.
[Editor's note- Thanks DBM. Good ketch.- john]
It's the asgard Loki's attempt to fit into Earth pirate culture!
I don't understand why the skull on the "plain" jolly roger would be brown?! The crossbones are white, so I'm not sure where they got that colored skull. Oh why am I wasting time trying to understand that mess? The baker obviously didn't spend any real on time on it, so why should I?
What did the pirate say when he turned 80? "Aye Matey!" :D (It helps if you say it out loud ;) )
Seriously, is there ANY situation than cannot be improved upon with a quote from The Princess Bride?
Oh my gosh. I seriously just snorted snot out of my nose over the last one.
Oh no! It's not Cowboys vs. Aliens! Now it's Pirates vs. Aliens.
Matey.
The last cake looks like it would be on Men's Room door at the alien autopsy lab. The Women's room would have had a skirt below the "X".
What is that baby's name? From here it looks like Gasador, but I'm hoping that's not right.
A Møøse once bit my sister ...
At least they didn't try and do the flag of the Queen Anne's Revenge, AKA Blackbeard's Flagship, where the skeleton is menacing a heart.
He's really very short on charm!
I love all your Princess Bride references!
There's something about gray frosting - I just cannot eat it. Someone had a gray coffin cake for their 50th and I was almost nauseous. Talk about psychosomatic. lol
Does that 3rd "cake" (and I use the term loosely) say "Happy Birtleday, Ethan"? Maybe that, uh... "cake" isn't really an embarrassing attempt at pirate pastry but is actually some kind of official delicacy found only in Manitoba? Sort of like a Canadian King Cake?
*runs*
Anybody want a peanut?
I believe the baby's name is Gavin
Fezzini, he likes to fuss....
Ahoy me hearties! Blow me down, these cakes belong in Davy Jones' locker. And the landlubbin' decorators should be made to walk the plank. Yo ho ho!
Emma, that would be a Norwegian Ridgeback named Norberta ;)
Cake #4 looks like 4 fried drumsticks in a pile.
I want chicken now.
(Presumably) edible item #1: The Norwegian Ridgeback prefers kippin' on it's back! Lovely plumage. Do you want Bichon Frise with that? (Yes, I know it doesn't work if you say it aloud. Work with it, ok?)
#2 I see 'Gomin'. At least the ordinal is right for a change -- decorator must be new.
#3 The green skull-and-crossbones is a universal symbol for 'poison'. Or CCCs. Same thing.
#4 It does look like a moose, with extra antlers. I don't think they used enough frosting, though -- I can still see some cupcake bravely showing through.
#5 Looks like a pirated copy of ET.
@Jessie - if it's pirates vs aliens, does that leave the cowboys fighting the ninjas? This could be fantastic...
"Piratey things" - love the PWDDA reference!
Princess Bride, Harry Potter and Pirates all in one post! I love you! (In a not-creepy, caketastic way.)
Does that baby's cake say "Happy 1st Birthday...Gumby?" And why, oh why is Pablo the Penguin from "The Backyardigans" perched next to him and sporting a pirate hat, something he doesn't normally wear? I'm so lost...
What's a pirate's favourite part of a library? The AAARRRRchives.
I'm so glad that everyone has already commented about the Princess Bride reference. I specifically looked at the comments because if someone hadn't already, I was going to be upset... and then I was going to reference it.
So: Bravo to all the previous commenters!
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
Everyone making the comments has been sacked!
We now move onto to a new theme and motive at twice the cost!
AARRGH! To put our two doubloons in; the wee dogs are West Highland Terriers (Westies) wearing lovely red Tam 'o Shanters, at the ready to thwart any pirate marauders.
@Kate -the four antlered moose is rarely seen these days, due to the loss of its natural habitat being taken over by The Last Saskatchewan Pirate
Actually...Scottish Terriers are black. West Highland Whites are well, white. So maybe those cupcakes are what you get when you cross breeds? X_x Darn it, now I have Adam and the Ants' Jolly Roger stuck in my head....
Ahoy mateys! I love the cakes, aaaand LOL'd over the comments! Learned some nice pirate jokes today, and had to think of monty python's the holy grail. What a great start of my day (in holland it's morning right now...)
LOVE the HP references!!
No more rhymes now, I mean it!
I love the minimalist approach to the last one. A+, wreckerator, A+!
The cookie totally does look like my dog, which is a white scottish terrier!
Love how the moose (yes it absolutely looks like a moose) has a cleft chin. Maybe its a hunky superhero moose? There's the comic con character of the future!
Norwegian Ridgeback FTW!
He's really very short on chaaarrm.
Ha ha ha ha ha, Norweigen Ridgeback!, Harrrm!.
WTF, do they even know what a pirate flag LOOKS like D: ?!
Did anyone else think that Ethan was celebrating his Buttday? No? Okay, never mind.
These cake decorators should be walkin' the plank! Aye matey- straight into Davey Jones' locker
And that first picture is definitely a petrified scottish terrier. If I saw myself drawn in frosting like that, I'd be scared too! =)
Where you see a moose, I see a steam-rolled California raisin.
And Kelly for the win!
That "moose" was actually the cake I ordered last year for the library's (I'm the librarian) celebration of Talk Like a Pirate Day! I was delighted when I opened it; my first really great entry for Cake Wrecks!
So I am reading this post with my 4 year old and he looks a the grey/green one and asks, "What is it, Mommy? What is it?" I of course start giggling. He then says, "I know! It's a turtle! But, where is his mouth?" I now officially loose it laughing. Just. Made. My. Day.