A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.
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May 20, 2008
'Cuz it a gril!
This cake takes itself not only for the spelling and grammar errors, but for its cringe-inducing color choices and script execution. Bravo!
Thanks to Erin A. for the photo!
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Reader Comments (56)
hahahaha
Can't believe they misspelled GRIL!
That's brilliant that is. Well done!
tic-toc!
There's an old Laurie Anderson comment, "I saw a sign in the bathroom at the library. It was in red magic marker and it read 'I LIKE GRILS' in messy longhand. Underneath, in neatly penciled caps was, 'YOU MEAN GIRLS, DON'T YOU?' Below that in the same red magic marker was, "NO, I MEAN GRILS!"
great blog, but you should avoid making grammatical mistakes in a post about grammatical mistakes (it's?!). just sayin'.
DANG IT!! [sigh]
Thanks, David - you found my weak point. Seriously, you readers have me quaking in my boots every time I hit "post". Still, you're keepin' me honest, so it's a good thing.
(I did just use "it's" correctly, this time, right?)
Wow.
I think you owe me a keyboard and some coffee for posting this.
Also, that hurt coming out of my nose like that, so I may ask for additional compensation for pain and suffering.
And more pain and suffering for having to look at that cake.
FWIW, this cake almost certainly came from an asian bakery. The fruit is the giveaway. So the decorater most likely spoke little english. You found Engrish on a cake!
"There's an old Laurie Anderson comment, "I saw a sign in the bathroom at the library. It was in red magic marker and it read 'I LIKE GRILS' in messy longhand. Underneath, in neatly penciled caps was, 'YOU MEAN GIRLS, DON'T YOU?' Below that in the same red magic marker was, "NO, I MEAN GRILS!""
I heard the punchline as "What's wrong with us grils?" (written by someone not the original author).
I'd be quite worried if I found out I was having a "gril", though....
The shadowing on the letters of this one makes me thing that it's photoshopped. Icing doesn't make that big of a shadow, does it?
haha,i actually first thought those were sushi around the edge of the cake ^^ hiromix
And they missed putting a piece of fruit on that lonely dollop of frosting.
My brother could have ordered that cake. He called me and my sisters GRILS for years!
It looks like a bunch of penises around the edge.
At first I thought it said Ha Gril, like: "Ha!, I told you it was going to be a girl!" That would have been amusing.
It looks like someone bought a cake, some icing in a tube, and a pack of those sugar decoration thingies.
Also, Jen, your use of "its" in the original post was correct. :)
Yikes. That's about all I can write about that cake.
Jen, as an English teacher I can assure you that you did use "its" correctly. "It's" = "it is".
Yes, I'm a grammar geek.
Just to clear things up, folks: I actually went back and corrected my initial spelling error after David pointed it out. So it was wrong, but now it's not. (Note correct usage of "it's".)
:)
I just hope that the person who ordered this cake didn't write "It a Gril" in the first place!
Great blog!
You know they named their little bundle of joy after some cheap bottle/box of wine they drank before she was conceived.
Par-tay + cheap wine = It a Gril named "Riunite" (do they still make that wine?) pronounced "Ree-u-nee-tee"
Par-tay on Cake Wrecker!
I envision free flowing Hpnotiq and lots of 40s at that baby party.
Also,I LOVE YOUR BLOG! Totally hilarious. Well done!
Such a pity, too — if not for the terrible writing, I'd have been drooling over a cake like that. Yum.
Ah, I remember what it was like when we had dad's first grill party. Of course, we got the cake from a Vietnamese Bakery, so boy does this bring back the memories! ^_~
Thankfully I wasn't drinking anything when I got to this picture. Why am I picturing Ollie Williams from Family Guy working at a bakery?
"This cake takes itself" is brilliant.
Oh my god, hahaha. I'm surpised you didn't write down in your blog post the awkward way the cherry-like and banana-like things at the edges are arranged.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! I have laughed so hard at the "Engrish" comment, that there is no longer any makeup on my right eye. I consider that a good day!
Thanks for this site
I'm going to waste the rest of my afternoon on this site, so thank you for that. =P :)
You have an AMAZING blog!
I doubled over reading your opening to this post. Super blog!
This cake is for the Webbers!! Proud parents of a baby grill...c'mon. We forget, we are not the only ones here people!!
so, yea IT A GRIL!!!
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA
aaaaaahh.
That's all.
Wow!!! LOL
Some of these cakes are obviously NOT professionally made...unless bakers are hiring those with a 4th grade edumacation these days.
LOL
Nope, not photoshopped. I love it!
That brings back memories. My baby shower cake read,
"congraLulations!"
They forgot to cross their "T's"
Did they mean for the boarder to look like sushi?!?
Par-tay!
I keep coming back here :) Even on Facebook.
This wreck wins so throughly.
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No photoshop on this puppy - I can testify to that! This was the cake for my friend's baby shower. I just about died laughing when I saw the cake - the family didn't even notice it! The bakers are from San Salvador - the English language isn't their specialty, but their cakes are delicious. This cake had vanilla and chocolate layers separated by strawberry and pineapple fillings, wrapped in whipped cream and a layer of chocolate and decorated with glazed strawberries and pineapples. It was delicious - bad spelling and all. By the way, the new parents named their little girl "Philomena". Can you imagine them trying to put that on the cake?
My wife and I have been reading this blog daily since July. To this day, I can't mention grilling anything without hearing "IT A GRIL!" happily yelled at me.
Thanks for that.
Yep I know this is six months later and you'll never see it, but heck yeah Eeyore! Nice Laurie Anderson reference! : )
Tabio: Fabio's cat.
Just wanted to clear something up with grammar. It's is a contraction of it is. (it's in the garage) Its is a plural form. (its colors were poorly chosen) So, when I read the original post, you did use the correct form the first time. Try this site: http://www.stormloader.com/garyes/its/#top
Hey Anonymous (1/19/09),
If you'd taken the time to read through *all* the comments (rather than just the first four), you'd have discovered that Jen made her own comment (7/30/08) explaining that she had accidentally used "it's" instead of "its" originally, and then went back and corrected it after David alerted her.
They seem to have run out of fruits for that one spot near the top there, see where there's an empty spot between those strawberries?
Either that, or they just forgot about it. -shrug-
I would love to say I cant believe someone misspelled "girl" but my aunt did it on a sign when my sister came home from the hospital. lol.
Dyslexia has no place in the cake business.
God - this still makes me laugh a year later. I know what is coming, but I can't help getting giggly. I really think it is the exclamation point.
IT a gril. Love this blog, gets funnier every day.
Jen, your grammar was perfectly fine! "Its" was used correctly in the caption. David, you need to double check the grammar rules before you chastise people for breaking them. ;)
Its = possessive. It's = It is.
And I just love these pictures. I'm a cake decorator too, although not for a living, and I just can't imagine how the bakers could live with themselves after turning these things in! I've had one disaster (road construction on the way to the reception made the bottom layer rip in two) but thankfully the bride was very young and didn't notice the imperfections! :) Besides, she'd asked for a bright pink cake with white trim & cinderella decorations; I still don't know how you're supposed to make something like that look attractive!
We moved several years ago and had a moving company come in and do all the packing for us. When we got to our new home and they movers started unloading the boxes to our children's rooms, we had to designate to them which room was the "The Boy Room" and which was the "The Gril Room". We still to this day jokingly call our son "The Boy" and our daughter is "The Gril".
Doesn't this remind any of you of the hot-dog-on-a-poo wave cake? except the icing's darker and instead of hotdogs its fruit
Dear David,
Maybe you should make sure you know your grammar before trying to teach it to someone else and looking like a bigger ass.
ITS is a possessive pronoun usually meaning ownership
IT'S means it is as in a compound word
Write that down.
Why does it have to be from an asian shop? You can get cakes with fruit on them anywhere. that looks like it could've come form my local Safeway. It just looks like a store-bought cake that someone wrote on at home, or someone, not a cake decorator, wrote on it at the store.