Thursday
Dec182008
Whirled Peas
December 18, 2008 For a cake promoting peace, this one sure is an assault on the eyes:
That pea-soup-green and grayish-blue color combo is causing a lot of upset in my GI region, too. In fact, looking at this cake is making me feel anything but peaceful. It makes me feel like maybe these color-blind wreckerators should be stopped, you know? Like maybe we should do something about it! What do you say, Heather E.? Are you with me?!?
Ok, here's what we'll do: we'll form a website, see? And then we'll post pictures of all the really bad cakes, yeah? And then we'll mercilessly mock the cakes until the wreckerators are forced to change their evil ways! It's BRILLIANT!!
Oh, wait....
Reader Comments (129)
It's a Peace Soup Cake. :-)
Nothing screams Christmas like olives on a cake!!
WV ~ Catio. When the cat ends up on the patio.
It really does look like green olives.
Martini cake, anyone?
- "Isn't that Dijon mustard icing?"
- "Uh? Yeah, it is! I was just wondering how i could create a new kind of cake, which might bring peace on earth!"
- "Sure... peace like... none will fight to get more..."
_______
>_<
I think it looks like the filling for deviled eggs. Certianly what I like with my cake.
PIMENTO OLIVES AND CAPERS YUMMY! MAYBE THE FROSTING IS MASHED POTATOES WITH MEATLOAF UNDER!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Like everyone else, I saw olives first and I still see olives! It took me a minute to see the wreath. Unfortunately, I saw this right before lunch and have since lost my appetite. Like AZgirl, I now have an upset stomach.
When you look at the close up of the cake, you can see that it has also been haphazardly sprinkled with those metal-looking sprinkles (dragees?). Why? oh Why?? ohhh why????!!! It looks like MOLD on the old pasta salad! Gack!!!
I must be the odd ball - to me it looked like someone had switched out their frosting bag for the deviled egg filling. Mmmmm... deviled eggs and cake. Where's the Pepto?
Do people really buy these cakes? Seriously!
Maybe it's a conspiracy. Maybe the "decorators" (note the appropriate use of quotations!)make these cakes ugly on purpose so no one will buy them, and then they can have the cakes for themselves!!
The depths of perversion that this idea could represent are disturbing.
I saw overcooked spinach with cranberries.
BTW - I keep flipping through the cake book at the supermarket, wondering which design has the highest potential for Wreckage. Just might have to order something to see what I actually get. Would that count as a Wreck, or do they have to be unforeseen?
It looks like it's covered in mushed pimento-stuffed olives...with the pimentos still in there...
I'll have a piece of baby carrot jockeys instead.
thank god they included an exclamation point, otherwise i would have been totally confused...
My first thought was olives. Lots of olives.
WV: byake
"Some paple don't understaynd how to byake."
Looks like olives to me. And not even nice shiny green olives, but the olives you find in the jar that got shoved to the back of the refrigerator eight months ago.
Del Monte Vobiscum, everyone. (That's "peas be with you.")
Word verification: nessness. The spirit of ness during the Chrismtas season. Kindness, happiness and nessness.
I saw pasta salad too! Macaroni shells with dried peas & carrots in a ranch sauce. Just what that cake & world peace needed! :P
I also thought it was pasta salad on the cake. In fact, that's all I can see. I think my favorite part might be the dis-proportionally large exclamation point, like the decorator was SO excited about the prospect of 'Peace on Earth' that they couldn't contain their enthusiasm.
Jen, I LOVE how witty you are! This blog is hilarious! Every day I come to work and I can't wait to see the latest and greatest of the cake-wreck world. Thanks for all the laughs!
Karen asked: "if it IS supposed to be a wreath, what are those nasty brownish black flecks in it supposed to be??"
I think they are supposed to be lowlights, except for there's no consistency to an imagined light source for them.
Or perhaps they are chocolate chips.
Word verification: stantsi. My daughter is going to be stantsi tomorrow morning waiting in the airport, but I am installing some games on the laptop to help with that.
When Nigel prayed for peace on Earth this wasn't quite what he had in mind...
Ha ha ha!!
I think I just saw something like that changing my son's diaper. Yeeeeccchhh.
Love the Yzma impression BTW Jen
Laura H
Peace on earth, wreckage on cakes...
And did anyone else notice that the cake in the background has the same color of frosting (or pasta salad), only with what looks like powdered Parmesan cheese sprinkled on top?
Ulcchhh. That is one of the worst colors ever.
I'm wondering who I should commission to do a Grinch cake for my soon-to-be-4-year-old's January birthday? Any suggestions? Lol.
Mmmmm, banana peppers.
So seriously...it doesn't just look like pimento olives, it looks like pimento olives AND like someone ate a bunch of kalamata olives and spit the pits back out onto the pile of pimento olives.
Yuk olives!
This cake is awful for the pregnant woman's eyes!
PUKE!
~Hyla
from
http://greenearthjourney.blogspot.com
It looks like tuna noodle casserole!! Made me hungry!!
The title of this post was perfect. I loves it!
Who threw up on that cake? yuck!
~Kia
Maybe it was supposed to be:
Peas on Earth
Oh wow. I am home w/dial up so the first thing I saw was the title, which had me laughing & wondering what was to come. When the photo finally came up, oh....
Is that actually a color? Was that stuff around the circumference of the cake supposed to be a design?
Since discovering this site, I've been looking at the cakes at my shopping places and having some giggles.
sagebeasties.blogspot.com
Is that...pasta salad?
Between the wrecks, Jen's brilliant commentary, and these hysterical word verifications, I laugh until I cry every morning. Thank you!
Ick.
Ewww. Looks like pasta salad.
My first thought was egg salad.
I actually spotted this cake at Whole Foods, in their holiday cake display. The green is even more putrid and pea-soup like in person and the strange olive-esque objects in the wreath are actually blobs of red and navy blue icing.
That just turns my stomach.
It took me a full minute to see it was supposed to be a wreath. That is one sorry Christmas cake.
It looks like it has pasta salad on top of it....
This cake makes me say Wow...Gnasty (the 'g' is not silent). It looks like it was under fluorescent lighting. Then I look again and say, oh my no. That's just plain lose-my-lunch awfulness. It should go with the moldy cakes. For reals.
That looks like strained peas. Well, if it is baby food, we can always feed it to the naked mohawk baby carrot jockeys!!!!!!!!
W.V: (although this cake makes me want to say WTF):tursin. When Bob saw the cake, his face started to look tursin and he rushed to the bathroom.
Okay, forget the icing; has anyone noticed the second-grader handwriting on this "cake"? ( No, that was not meant to make fun of the cakes with the inappropriate quotation marks. I really think that the cake-hood of this... item should be doubted.)
Looks like it was decorated with capers and pimentos. Can I pass on this cake? I'll just have some of the candy from the pinata.
In addition to the nauseating color, it looks like it says "Peace or Earth!" to me. Apparently you can only have one or the other.
Another great wreck!!
My first impression was that there was a ring of ziti with pesto ringing the top of that cake. Blecch.
I agree: it totally looks like pasta salad. The really vinegary kind.
I don't know what you people are complaining about. I hear pimento olives on vanilla cake is a very popular dessert in hell.
Totally thought it was pasta salad!