Tuesday
May312011
Save The Cakes
May 31, 2011 Did you know that, every day, thousands of cakes go unpurchased?
It's true. These shunned desserts sit lonely and unloved on bakery shelves...
...only to eventually be shipped off to the day-old bread outlet.But it doesn't have to be this way.
...and eaten.That place being your belly.
Yes, your contribution can help provide loving tummies for rejected wrecks!
And just think: for the price of a candy bar, you can help turn these stale, unwanted, frosting-slathered sugar bombs...
...into a continuous sugar-high for someone else's hyperactive children.
And really, isn't that what we all want?
So please, visit your local bakery today, and save the cakes. For our future. For our children. And, for the love of Betty Crocker, tell them to stop making cupcake cakes while you're there.
I really can't take this kind of thing much longer.
Thank you.
Thanks to our "generous" "sponsors" Carly R., Garrett B., Jill B., Cheryl, Sabra L., Rasha H., and Dan & Christine M.
Reader Comments (86)
OMG - that Poo Mesa with Pig is just WEIRD!
Living on a different hemisphere, I'm now totally excited about going to the USA – home of the wrecks (which I'm going to save loads of, I hope).
is that last one supposed to be a horse? maybe?
The last cake is a GREAT depiction of a curly baskir breed of horse!
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OK, at first I thought the last one was a cow. Now I think it's a horse. Still, it looks more like a dead calf that a living anything. All of those cakes make me NOT want cake!
NO! I couldn't make myself eat one of those. Ever. I want my cake pretty. Is that too much to ask?
In the name of ANYTHING that’s holy- what is that thing?? #1 looks like a Tim Burton reject for an animated film (the colors are too cheerful).
#2= I’m going with a steroid laden chicken.
#3- Purple armadillo, pre-squash.
#4- Please, does anyone else see a pink pig?? I swear, I don’t drink!! (is that a little umbilical cord on its tummy? hurl)
#5- Demented monkey eyeing the pallet of bananas. From the flotsam and jetsam on the counter someone actually bought it and took it home. That’s the biggest WHY of the day.
#6- Gator, post-squash. Looks like radials to me and must’ve been a semi if it wasn’t a baby.
#7- Trojan horse. It comes in the guise of a serving-friendly CCC (patooey) yet makes an insane icing mess when it’s pulled apart (does it scream when you yank off its limbs & face? Shudder) I think it's giving me the stink eye.
Sorry, J & J, it's too cruel to save these monstrosities. We should let them gently expire and mourn their passing in quiet reflection.
-Barbara Anne
@ Judy C: But if you eat it, you put both yourself and it out of your misery: It's no longer unhappy, and you don't have to look at it any more.
Littlefoot
I gave at the office...
Hehe. :)
I kind of dig the pig-in-the-mud cake. But, I grew up around a lot of pig farms. Also, I'm wondering if the cake is bacon flavored. It should be.
I don't want to be responsible for putting that much sugar into anyone's stomach.
WV lightery I hope next time they go just a lightery on the icing.
#2 looks like it's crying! D_8Somebody save it, please! (I mean somebody else save it, please!)
LOL love the "save the children" spoof. those cakes did look so.sad. The happy baby devil really freaked me out. Or is it a pig in mud? (PINK, wreckerator, not Red. had to be a guy. they're color clueless.)
wv: surcepu: The question on every toddler's mind about the gastro-intestinal mysteries. What IS the surcepu?
When I saw the one with the "Yellow Cake" sticker, I read it as "Pastel Armadillo," and I thought that sounded really descriptive. And then I realized it was the Spanish translation of "yellow cake," pastel amarillo. That's much different. Nevermind.
wv: ingess - If you ingess these cakes, you might get ingigesstion.
Aww those poor cakes :(
I love the fuschia piggy and his little belly button. XD I'd adopt him in a heartbeat.
Poor #2 cake has runny mascara. Looks as if it is begging for a reprieve from being humanely euthanized...Poor Poor whateveritis
With the first cake, I pictured an aerial view of the South Park characters devouring a snowman, zombie-style...
Maybe that says something about me...?
Wv: ocksi
That poo-pig rolling in poop makes me feel all ocksi.
That pink piggie cake looks more like a freshly extracted subcutaneous parasite than any other cake ever. I hear if you put a steak over the entry hole, they suffocate and have to come out...
#2 is the Tammye Faye Bakker of the chicken-cake world.
Um... What happened to the CCC pony's hind legs? And why is it baby-poo green? And do I really want the answer to either of the previous two questions?
Oh, dear... Had to repost, just for the WV...
WV - Ovara: Hey, ugly as these all may be, at least none of them features a uteeroos or an ovara!
I'm seeing today's blog in my head in flash with a Sara McLaughlin song playing behind it.
I love the fact that the armadillo cake isn't even labeled right. Unless I can't read, that says "Pastel Amarillo" Double wreck!!!
While these cakes do look like they need to be put out of their misery with a sympathy purchase, shouldn't we instead "vote with our $" and NOT buy them--for if we continue to line the coffers of these bakers' pockets when they put out these horrid pathetic creations, they will think "it's okay, someone will buy it!" ;-)
Cheers to the people who recognized the last one as a horse. I thought it was a velociraptor!
Awww, Wreck No. 2's mascara's running.
@ anonymous at 12:03 --
I love the "anti puppy mill/pet store" cake wrecks plea!
That pig in mud looks as happy as a demented demon -- er, freakish parasite -- um . . . pig in mud!
Great job at raising our gorge -- er, sympathies -- CW team!
I love the fact that we all misread "pastel amarillo" as "pastel armadillo." The idea that the wreckorator would make a pastel armadillo ON PURPOSE, and then proudly label it as such is so very plausible.
Awww, the snowman and the chicken remind me of the ugly duckling. They know they are ugly and unwanted....but I don't think there is a happily ever after for them. *sniff*
Is it just me, or does that pig in a mud puddle look like he has an exo-skeleton? Or maybe he's just doing crunches.
I thought the last one was a giraffe.....or a spider?
Andrea
Haha Kristers, I was hearing the exact same Sara McLaughlin song. I like this cakey version of that sad commercial much better. I think.
I promise you shall never see
an ugly cupcake cake made by me!
Ha ha! I've been reading your blog for ages but never commented before. But now I have to. The first two cakes' sad "faces" have upset me too much. As they don't really do cakes like that here (UK), I just had to eat an ordinary chocolate cake with no sad face in order to help.
I'm glad I don't live in the States. I'd be rescuing poor cakes all the time!
Those first cakes look so sad. :(
I'm still never buying something with that much icing (or that generally frightening). My teeth hurt just thinking about it.
WV: Uniscary. Quit it with these cakes, uniscaring me!
Ok. :)
So call me crazy, but they all (except for the horse-dog-cow CCC) kinda sorta look...a little bit super adorable. In a creepy but cute baby alien sort of way. Not that you'd catch me EATING one, heavens no, but they just look so darn cute and hopeful! d'aaawww. Poor little things.
wv: coutesse- these are the coutesse wittle wrecks I've ever seen!
Desperate times call for desperate measures....SO, I say we should all get together and do what the animal shelters do, when overcrowding is rampant, new offerings are coming in every day, and shelf space is at a premium:
Hold an EVENT!
Why not an Adoptathon? All cakes deemed romotely viable go for a small donation and signed form stating that whatever happens to them after they leave the store- we don't want to hear about it.
OR, put together a Walk For The Cakes Festival~~this could be real fun for the kiddies: Everyone dresses in costumes and parades through town collecting specimens, singing For Those About to Rot (We Refute You).
(PRIZES (!!!) for best costumes, and those who can refrain from throwing up.)
The festivities conclude with
the proper and respectful mass burials-at-sea, or toxic waste dumps. And fireworks.
=^a.a^=
But why does that horse/goat/veloceraptor ccc say "Happy 20th Anniversary"? Do you HATE your spouse???
Things that I have learned from Cake Wrecks:
1) If purchasing cupcakes for your cake...just get cupcakes....not the CCC...as they all look ridiculous. (and we know that bad looking food tastes bad! :P)
b) For entertainment, go to your local grocery and search the cake display for that one special wreck - it is like 'where's waldo!' :D
4 - I mean 3) It is not common knowledge that the golf ball thing at Disney - is called spaceship earth - not Epcot.
I love learning. :D
They should have the children in the "Save the Children" TV ads posing with these cakes.
I bet many more people would sponsor them this way.
Well, well, what do you know - the Curly Bashkir Cupcake Cake Horse! An idea that should have stayed on the drawing-board ...
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curly_Horse)
Making the pig look like he was made out of cocktail wieners takes an enormous amount of talent. Glorious!
Is that light pink one a roadkill-aardvark??
Those are hilarious!!
:) Mags
OK... the brown pile with the red on top looks like a pile of poo with a huge hemmarroid on top!
I guess I'm showing my age. I didn't think of Sara McLaughlin at first. When I was reading the narrative, I heard it in the voice of Sally Struthers.
I thought the label on the third one said "pastel armadillo." Wait, maybe it does. Love, love, love cake wrecks!!
The best thing about the last one is that it's for someone's 20th anniversary. hahhaha.
@ Kristers and Heidi - I had the SAME thought about the Sarah McLachlan song, so I just re-read the post while listening to it :)
I must have no scruples... I would totally eat that crocodile cake.
Hysterical! Can't stop giggling!
Okay the pig is kinda cute despite the fact that he looks a little like he is made of radioactive hot dogs.