Friday Favs 9/4/15
September 4, 2015 Some of my favorite new submissions this week.
They asked for, "Happy Birthday Sally/Mom," but I suspect they ordered it over the phone.
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Give it a minute.
THERE IT IS.
And here's a little hunting tip:
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HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Bakers, you keep using that word:
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"Plain"
I do not think it means what you think it means.
(And am I the only one who thinks it's wrong to put frosting on angel food cake?)
First, you will be mildly traumatized:
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Then, you will have just one burning question:
Is that actual fur??
Thanks to Jeremy C., Brittany W., Adrienne P., Jen C., & Angela G. for the shiny pink... hunting hat? Yeah. Let's go with that.
BONUS MYSTERY WRECK:
I often joke that I don't know what a cake is supposed to be, but seriously, you guys: I have no idea what this is supposed to be:
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Now taking suggestions in the comments.
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Reader Comments (129)
"We have to take out the dam. There's no other way. Basset hound!"
Those angelfood cakes are at a Kroger. I worked, very briefly, in a Kroger bakery. We would often use up whippy (like a cool-whip based icing) getting to the end of it's life span covering angelfood cakes. People actually buy them, although personally I think they look kinda gross.
That is a souvenir piece of the Berlin Wall if I ever saw one
Ok, I don't have a guess for the mystery wreck. It's something I wouldn't eat, I know that much. But... what is that supposed to be on the hunting cake? I know what it looks like. But what is it, really?
I believe the Mystery Wreck is a topographic map for a remedial outdoors survival class. "We need to go right there. That's where we are to set up camp. Right where the arrows are pointing. Do you think you can possibly find it? No, you can't eat it now."
Is this one of those things where you STARE at it long enough a picture starts to emerge? Fail. for sure. BUT...go with me here....I think it may be an outline of the USA with a tumor on California. And then the "arrows" are pointing at a place of origin...like maybe Area 51 ROSEWELL??? **insert jaws music or Beethoven's 5th*. Ok, back to staring at it................................
OMG! Is that a gremlin minion? What an exciting find with the last cake! It's obviously a cake rendition of the rare and exotic finless, fire breathing, chevron land shark found only on a small remote section of the island where the wild things are.
That is obviously the elusive chevron fish.
Bonus: I'm seeing a broken arrow. We're looking at the feather end.
I think the minion cake is actually a leak on DM 3: the day the minions mutated.
Last movie it was purple minions; this time they lose their legs and crawl after you, propelled by their grotesquely long arms. Creepy!
P.S. Angel food cake is served bare with lots of whipped cream, berries, chocolate sauce, etc. That's to cover how teeth gratingly sweet the cake is. Just looking at frosted angel food is enough to induce a sugar headache in some.
I'm taking the bonus cake in a different direction. It is obviously a DDR cake. The dance arrows are very clear. :-)
Angel food cake is wrong with or without frosting.
Mystery wreck:
I"m sure it"s the nightmare of the graphic designer.
Rainbow trout from Chernobyl?
Perhaps the mystery wreck was decorated by someone who forgot to wear the prescribed corrective lenses. "Nobody will notice this is a mistake since everything is blurry anyway".
Angel food cake is only good with my MIL's peanut butter frosting otherwise frosting on angel food-yuck!
The bonus cake - I saw angel fish at 1st so lets go with that!!
The Bonus:
The rare (and ugly) Chevron fish
Wreck Guess: Sterotypical "Southwest" Pattern?
Well, the mystery cake is OBVIOUSLY meant to celebrate the state of Montana passing the bill to allow same sex marriages. Duh!
Definitely a rainbow trout.
*tilts head to right* I'm guessing a Transformer?
Mystery cake = EW!!
I think the mystery cake is an arrow's fletching? Or maybe just a feather? A really bad feather.
Also, angel food cake with icing is an abomination. Blech!
The hunting cake has a HAT on it, a very shiny, turgid HAT.
And I also see a Transformer in the bonus cake, but I have girls, so I haven't invested a lot of time with the Transformers. Still wouldn't eat it, and cake is my favorite, I love cake :)
The hunting cake: Is someone insinuating that Barry is behaving badly by putting a penis hat on his cake?
Why are there furry bits on that sad minion? Is he melting from shame?
That last one? Whatever it is, it needs medical attention. And it's a CCC ptooie
Hunting cake: "We'll just tell your mother that...we ate it all."
I concur that frosted angel food cake is anything but angelic.
Mystery Wreck: I see a partially eaten popsicle that has been left in the freezer Memorial weekend, only to be found on Labor Day...
Joel's post for the win! "Cake is plain, highness..."
Barry's cake - I think it is supposed to be a hunter's cap.
The mystery CCC has a price of $16.49! What the ...
I have NOOOOOOOOO idea what that last thing is. It reminds me of some kind of musical game that was out when I was a kid. But.... Jen promise me you will check this out, I guarantee you'll be geeking out all weekend over its cuteness!!!!!!!!
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Just FYI, the "frosting" on the Angel Food Cake is tinted whipped cream. Down here, whipped cream is perfectly normal on that type of cake. Eating it plain must be some weird Northern thing, like putting mayonnaise in fruit salad. Nasty.
by the way... I forgot to say that frosting angel food cake is one of the seven deadly sins- YUCKY!!!!
Angel Food cake should always be plain. Unless you put strawberries and whipped cream on top. That's okay. But the frosting just sounds gross.
What is that orange thing on the hunting cake even supposed to be? It looks sort of like a hard hat stacked on top of a baseball cap...
I have no idea what the mystery wreck is supposed to be.
@Kim J - I saw Dance Dance Revolution as well! :)
Umm, guitar?
An odd chevron-patterned swimsuit?
In my little corner of the world, if angel food cake has "frosting," it should be a light drizzle of lemon glaze. I was born and raised south of the Mason-Dixon line, but both parents were New Englanders, so make of that what you will.
It took me a good three minutes to notice the deer protruding from the front of that "hunting" cake; I was completely transfixed by the, um, "decoration" on the top. At first, I thought it might be for a bachelorette party, referencing a different kind of hunt altogether. Honestly, what hunter would wear a cap that color?? The point is to *avoid* being noticed by deer/turkey/whatever-is-in-season, not to shock the bleep out of them!!
I'm with whoever said that the last cake is a gas station sign on hallucinogenic drugs. More evidence that drugs're bad, mmmkay?
My guess for the mystery cake: a rainbow trout? I haven't read any comments yet.
Wreckers rendition of Picasso's Guernica. Look closely and you'll see it!
My 3 year old is an octonauts buff, and I am a saltwater fish geek, so a lot of the references to the common name Picasso Trigger fish are hilarious!
Only Sandra Lee gets to use frosting on an angel food cake.
Google: Sandra Lee + Hanukkah cake if you haven't seen it yet.
Final cake: Montana?
Okay, the last one is a.......I mean it looks like a.....no, wait! It's gotta be a......no, no, no , it's not that either.....oh hey! Maybe it supposed to be a......Yeah, I got nothin...> . <
Maybe it's a piece of the Berlin wall, with graffiti and everything? People did (and still do) have parts of it as souvenirs.
The severed arm of a corporal who supports marriage equality.
The mystery cake is definitely a train...just not decorated well.
I've seen the other suggestions. Me? Nope. I got nothin'.
Mystery CCC looks to me like a rotting road kill unicorn after someone stole the horn.
Here's what you do with angel food cake --- place a sugar cookie or molassas cookie over the centre, then frost the whole cake with mmmmmm whipped cream!
That was our famly's traditional and favourite birthday cake. Mmmm... I must arrange to have another birthday this year.
Okay, I'm gonna be twitchy all evening, because I swear I should be able to identify that mystery cake, but can't bring it up... only thing surfacing is maybe something DDR, but that doesn't seem quite right...
Never liked to have more than maybe a little glaze on the top of my angel food cake.
And this is giving me the jitters because I promised to make my sister a minion cake this weekend...
The neon colors make me think of a Miami dance club in the 80's; the dull grey parts suggest that it actually was frosted during that decade.
Well, whatever the bonus cake was originally, it's clearly been run over, so now it's dead.
The last one has me thinking of DDR arrows.
Really invokes the feeling of boot-scootin on a crinkly plastic mat while falling into adjacent furnishings...
I haven't seen anything quite like that last one since the 60s.