Tuesday
Oct062015
When In Rome...
October 6, 2015 This week Mackensie's aunt received a birthday cake for the ages.
Her kids asked the baker to write her age in Roman numerals, since we all know nobody can read those anyway and - bonus - it also looks classier.
Instead of oh-so-classy and discreet Roman numerals, though, Mackensie's aunt got this on her cake:
;)
RAMEN NOODLES.
You've gotta appreciate the little noodle pile on top, too. That's a baker who fully commits.
Thanks to Mackensie G. for the soup-er submission. May your next cake be XVIICXE times better than this.
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Reader Comments (53)
Ok, the ramen noodles were bad enough, but that COLOR! What IS that? Not poo brown. Not pee yellow. Not mocha. What is that? What do you call that color?
Hideous? Unedible? Vomitous? Scraped-from-the-floor?
Udon know why this happened. Perhaps the baker was an impasta with no decorating skills.
I've always loved studying the history of the Raman Empire and their rivalry with the Pad Thai Empire. Then they split apart becoming the Raman and the Cup Noodle Empires before collapsing into the dark ages of the Supermarket.
OMG!!! Head meet desk. Repeat often
Bwahahahahahaha
That reminds me of a debate coach I had in high school who once told us that even if we had no idea what we were talking about, fully commit to the concept and B.S. our way through it. LOL Kudos to the baker for doing just that.
Et tu, Soupus? ;-)
Hahahahahaha! Oops gotta pee!
Whelp. *That's* my new favorite cake. Clearly this wreckorator has had the Noodle Dream.
XVIICXE Isn't a number.... Unless the Romans created a "Google" variant.
(Amazing what you remember from fifth grade math... Well and having a teacher who taught me unlike I fear many bakers.)
Still - wins as one of the more uniquely bizzare ones.
Showed this one to my husband. Will be cleaning toothpaste off the mirror.
@Maureen – I believe that color is known as "Antique Envelope Paste" or it might be "Faded Cargp Pants."
LOL @ SuBee!
Has anybody cut this cake? Were there ramen noodles in between the layers? Mmmm, onion soup cake!
The baker wondered if he or she should ask the client to confirm the concept, and thought: "Nah, not enough time, I'll make it like this. Alea caka est."
@Maureen: It's not that bad, you could call it "café au lait".
Ah, this cake was discovered in the tomb of the great Pharaoh, Ramen-Hotep.
Tomorrow is my birthday, and I SO badly want someone to get me this exact cake. With my name instead of "Mom," because I'm not a mom.
What the pho? I just don't gnocchi how the baker could be so farfalle off the mark. It's just fusilli. But I'll bet that the family still had to pay a pretty penne for that wreck.
@DB-ramen noodles between the layers made me gigli.
Just prroves the point that no one understands Roman numerals.
Color looks to be Spiced Spackle. I have quite a few friends and acquaintances, & being from the South we all have unique nicknames, a few food-based ones, but no one would ever call their Mamma "Ramen" anything. ("Noodles"? Maybe.)
Bwahahaha!! Cake is hilarious, but as usual, it's the comments here that gets me laughing even more!
In our family, the Aunt would be called "Noodles" or "Aunt Noodles" - so good you just can't make it up!
@Maureen, it looks like sand to me. I expected it to be beach themed.
Now I really want to know what MY age in ramen noodles looks like.
Obviously the baker was a religious man, (or woman) trying to throw in a little bit of praise for his god, the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Anyone who has ever studied the religion knows that Ramen-on-Top is one of his most impressive avatars!
@Maureen & DB- I'm sure the color is inspired by the envelope of "flavoring" powder! This is one amazing wreck.
Perhaps the baker thought it was a religious cake. Mom could belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! 'May he bless this cake with his noodley goodness. Tomato sauce for all. Ramen.'
That baker is clearly a pre-Madonna
Oh god...I can't...it gets funnier the more I look at it. You can make out the individual noodles!
Okay no one has posted on the weird pile of whatever above the Happy, what is that piss yellow thing supposed to be? A strange flower? a poodle, wish I knew.
Quick, somebody call IX-I-I !!!
(with apologies to Hercules...)
This one must go into the annals of 'Superior Wrecks'. thank you Mackensie for making sure we got to experience this.
Oh, wait a minute. That should be Soup-perior.
Noodle poo
Lol
I believe that icing color is called "Leftovers". And it looks like they brought it home - which means they paid for it???? SERIOUSLY???
If that's not what puce looks like, it ought to.
I can just hear the baker thinking, "Roman numerals? What are those? She just has to mean 'Raman Noodles'. Maybe that's her favourite food. We'll just go with that."
Thank you.
My morning was off to a really slow start and I needed the ROTFLMAO moment.
I will never see Roman Numerals again without thinking Ramen Noodles.
;-D
I am laughing so hard, reading all these comments! Jackwire, SuBee, Isolder -- I came this close to laugh-coughing iced tea all over my computer! "Udon know" how much I needed to laugh today and I can't thank you enough.
Would the decorator not have said to him- or herself, "Hmmm, I wonder why this family wants the words 'Ramen Noodles' on their cake?" Cursive writing isn't taught in schools anymore and I guess roman numerals aren't either.
Is anybody else wanting to count the individual noodles in the pile of "ramen noodles" to see if they numerically equal Mom's birthday?
And, as so often happens with this type of Wreck, the writing and flourishes and border are actually pretty good. It just makes the text so much wreckier.
ramen noodles - a new kind of alphabet soup?
Sadly, the color of this cake is quite similar to that of the lobby and exterior of my office building. Now when I see the swirly light bulbs in the wall sconces, I will be forever reminded of the ramen noodle pile on the top of that cake.
I needed a good laugh today, so I came to CakeWrecks. As usual, you delivered.
OMG! Ramen Noodles? What a hoot!
17 110 Error.
I felt my IQ drop after seeing this wreck.
What a coincidence! Today is National Noodle Day!
Maybe the baker had been watching Kung Fu Panda and like "Po" they were dreaming about noodles when they took down this order!
Hopefully the cake wasn't made of Ramen noodles or was the wreckerator warning the guests about to eat it? Lol this is hilarious.
OMG, jackwire, SuBee, Lady Anne, and DilEmma--you just made my day...cracked me up, big time!
The rest of you aren't so shabby either.
Thanks, I needed that!
Wow bring out the nasty colour comments lol
No one stops to think it might have been coffee flavoured?
Tbh if there was no explanation for this cake i would of been staring at it for hours trying to work it out...
And her age remains a secret...
Now if the cake costs the same as a ramen noodles pkg, that would be awesome. :D