Thursday
Sep162010
Dueling Disasters
September 16, 2010 Note: Press play and start scrolling!
Banjo #1: bada ding ding ding ding ding ding diiing...
Banjo #2: bada ding ding ding ding ding ding diiing...
Now this one.
Banjo #2: ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding...
YEEEEEEHAAAAAW!!!
Banjos #1 & #2 ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
Ding.
Hey, Cindy S. and btchelicious: Bada ding ding ding.
Reader Comments (173)
Tonight on a very special "Dukes of Hazzard"... the Duke boys get married!
This was probably one of my favorite posts ever.
Today's post is the total awesomeness!
What a great way to start my work day.
Thank you Cake Wrecks.
Where's Tom Arnold when you need him?
I'm terrified by the Bud Light cake. It actually looks well made, but God is it tacky.
Wow.
I'm a newbie to South Carolina, but I'm pretty sure that everyone I've met in my new Southern home would have a problem with these cakes not being front and center on your Sunday Sweets. (dueling banjos and all)
The mud splattered cake is definitely a technical masterpiece, and from the nearby treads in the sand it looks like the reception is at a dirt-bike / atv (track? range? Whatev) so props on keeping up the theme.
Though as a Yankee, I'm not sure I'll ever understand why we can't find another way to express Southern pride than through using the confederate flag. Even if people don't mean it this way, lots of us read confederate flags as racist. It's a knee jerk reaction maybe, but there it is.
Can't... stop... laughing....
Is it really a wreck if the couple got exactly what they asked for?
Excellent post. What saddens me is the Bud Light cake is quite well executed, for a skeezy, scary theme. Good baker, bad bride.
OMG! Is this what cousins choose when they marry each other?
Thanks for this post. I really needed it today.
Is that bride pregnant?? Too much Sundrop before the wedding, obviously. Too bad she can't blame it on the alcohol...
WV: exampe--these are an exampe of how not to make a wedding cake. This is also a good exampe of an interactive post. Love it.
@Jennifer:
Best.
Comment.
Ever!!!
That was awesome! I love how the beer can tier supports on the bottom cake are smushed like half an inch down from the weight of the other tiers. I also agree that the second cake was executed rather well with all things considered.
Is that some sort of AWARD for the cakes in the 4th picture?
WV: townsing: what the town will do when all of the wrecky bakers are rolled out of town.
Klassy!
Thanks for the laugh...I needed it this morning!
I'm pretty sure that one cake says "One (something I can't read) Race."
Yikes!!!
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding DIIIIING! :)
That means I like it.
Thanks.....now I'm going to be humming "Dueling Banjos" all day, and in my part of Texas, that's a wee bit dangerous.
OH MY GOODNESS Jen I love you! really really I do. It makes me sad we are both already happily married... and that you live so far away. because I think we need to get do Tea sometime. <3
It is apparent to me that the problem with these cakes is not the skill of the decorator, but the taste level (or lack thereof) of the bride(s) and groom(s).
And, yes, I'm a lifelong resident of the South.
WV:ingestie - I'd ingestie that cake, hold the Bud Light.
Why is there poop on that wedding cake?!?!
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Gotta love us Southerners! =)
The Bud cake was very well made though...and of course the bride and groom would would be mudy if they were mud bogging!
The saving grace is that one cake appears to be pooping all over the confederate flag...
Words fail me....let's just say I am glad I live in the West!
I am from the South (Appalachian Mtns, actually, so not only am I a Southerner, I'm a hillbilly as well), but I've lived in the north for several years now. These cakes are a perfect example of *exactly* why people think all Southerners/Hillbillies marry our cousins, have no teeth, and still use an outhouse. Thanks, brides, for perpetuating the stereotype. Good Lord. I need a drink, and it needs to be stronger than Bud or Sundrop.
The confederate flag one is really well done, actually. If you're into that sort of thing.
You know... it's okay to say "Redneck". It's alright. I give you permission. You can say it. Go ahead. Redneckiest is also an adjective. (Or is it an adverb?) Remember, it's not "Ain't got no" it's "Ain't got any." Ain't no is a double negative and improper Englush.
the posts are so much more fun when you get to interact like that! love it love it love it!!! i'm making today a B.A.D. day... :)
This is by far the funniest post y'all have ever put together. I can not believe that someone, much less two people, put a confederate flag on a cake.
the cake says RACE and then April 30, 2010. Not sure if Race is the bride's or groom's name, or the name of the wedding local.
I pretty sure the inscription on the Sun Drop cake has a date across it - it definitely ends with 2010 (NOT the word "one"). When I saw the word RACE, I immediately thought NASCAR...but now I'm a little afraid it might be someone's name.
Oh boy -- bring on the kissin' cousins, racist hick, illiterate Republican comments! *eye roll*
I think the Bud cake is actually kida cute AND well-executed. I wish the chocolate "mud" looked a little neater, it looks like it was just kinda splurted on there way too thickly... but otherwise it's really kinda sweet (besides the beer cans). And no, I don't go muddin', I'm a college grad, I have all my teeth, I only drink wine and my husband and I are completely unrelated.
Hilarious. You are all so creative.
The second cake (the mud boggin' one) was well executed!
I mean, if someone wanted that particular design, I think the baker/decorator did an excellent job.
Ohh!! You should do that! Cakes requests that are really shabby, but the baker/decorator does a really good job anyway! You know, a little redemption for the good-humored but slightly-put-out decorators who enjoy your blog.
That was the funniest thing ever, and I really needed it today, thank you!
I live in rural Iowa and camouflage weddings/cakes are probably fairly common (although I've never been to one) since hunting is big around here, but wow.
I didn't mind being called a hick until today. :P
On the SunDrop cake is the groom sitting on a toilet?
Holy crap on a cracker! After I was done choking on my coffee and screaming with laughter, I called 3of my friends and told them, "YOU HAVE GOT TO GET TO CAKE WRECKS!!" They just called back, shrieking hysterically. Expect 3 more loyal readers.
The only thing more racist than a Confederate flag is that sign saying "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone". It sets my WASP blood boiling. I must say that much of Cake Wrecks has a southern theme that escapes me. I depend on the comments for clarifucation. Norine
I'm a Southerner, too. So first I laughed, then was mortified by the cakes. Although I like the Bud cake. Kinda cute. But that Sundrop cake - omg... around here, there's one kind of person you see drinking Sundrop, and it's likely that all of them were at that wedding!
Now, now, now. I'm Southern and while I LOVE a good cold Sundrop, I'm not sure I'd want it supporting my wedding cake. BUT, aren't cakes suppose to represent the couple getting married? Don't judge. My sister wore a tie dyed wrap around skirt and was married on a gravel bank of a creek. It was the most beautiful, relaxing, wonderful wedding I've ever been to. We Southerners are happy the way we are.
Oh J & J, thank you.
Best post yet.
I agree with all and sundry who've said it's the taste that's in question rather than the execution. Hoosh.
WV: 'gansi' - sure, that's a gansi lot of manky old bevvie tins.
Love, love, LOVE this post! I'm smiling from ear to ear! (Can we have musical accompaniment every day? You've spoiled me now...)
I love these play along posts!
You should consider installing a one-way mirror feature too - I'm sure you would enjoy the look of pure horror on my face after I clicked 'YE HAW!' and saw these two cakes in their full glory.
If your wedding cake used beer cans to separate the tiers...
If there was "mud" featured prominently on your wedding cake...
If the little bride and/or groom figurines on your wedding cake were sitting on a little toilet...
If your wedding colors were chosen from the confederate flag...
If your bride walked down the aisle to the tune of dueling banjos...
YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK!!!
"I'm a newbie to South Carolina, but I'm pretty sure that everyone I've met in my new Southern home would have a problem with these cakes not being front and center on your Sunday Sweets. (dueling banjos and all)"
Wow, anonymous, welcome to the South! Don't worry...I'm sure you'll make a lot of new friends with that attitude!
And THANK GOODNESS y'all explained that it was mud! I wasn't paying enough attention and kept thinking it was a visual representation of a $*%# storm. Wowzers!
That's just what I was wondering, 10:29 am Anonymous.
I really want to see pictures of the whole wedding party for both of these wrecks. My imagination is just running wild.
Dear Sweet Merciful Lord....I threw up in my mouth a little
Hilarious post though...you know, aside from the mouth vomit.