*That's slang for "Ukulele". Trust me. I'm a musician.**
** Never trust a musician.
Then I thought we'd play a little "Somewhere over the rainbow" and bask in the warm, fuzzy glow of some peace sign cakes. Can you dig it, man? Groovy.
Let's start by taking a nice deep breath. (Don't mind the smell; that's just my "glaucoma medication.") Deeper. Now... hold it in and look at this cake:
It's like, totally cute as a button.This one's like a birds eye view of a lazy river in a Japanese water park:
Plus it's so peaceful, you don't even care that the peace sign is wrong.Now let's sing. "Some...WHEEERE...ooover the raaaainbow..."
The one reminds us how beautiful incorrectly drawn peace symbols are - on the inside.
And we're breathing IN the good, and OUT the bad...
Because nothing says "peace and happiness" quite like camo.
The one reminds us how beautiful incorrectly drawn peace symbols are - on the inside.And we're breathing IN the good, and OUT the bad...
Because nothing says "peace and happiness" quite like camo."Where happy little blue birds fly..."
Whoa. You know, I'm still feeling peaceful and all, but for some reason now I also want a Mercedes.Hey, I've been thinking: Since no one seems to know how to draw a peace symbol anymore, maybe the bakers should, like, just use plastic ones instead.
Oh. Never mind.
I missed yesterday's fiasco! Now I have two posts to read this morning. Yeesss
ReplyDeleteThe sticker on the camo "cake" says "Special Order 24 Count Licensed Variety Pullapart Cupcakes." Um, ok. Does that imply that this cake was specially ordered? And I'm really curious what they think is the "Licensed Variety" portion of this cake. It's so mystifying, which I guess fits with the theme of today's post.
ReplyDeleteThe peace Valentine cupcake also cracked me up for some reason. Hearts really are so trite--it's so much more meaningful if the holiday can really stand for something, you know?
--kate
How hard is it to Google "peace sign," people? Sheesh. Those cake wrecks totally harshed my mellow.
ReplyDeletePeace out.
i lost it at the japanese water park comment. Just because its so true... and if anything the cake needs more 'people' on it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they're meant to be Mercedes Benz logos.
ReplyDeleteI'm convinced the second one is supposed to be a bicycle helmet.
ReplyDeleteMaking peace with one's baker - That's your new t-shirt line. I'll buy one, or two or twelve.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in jr high, about 15 years ago, there was this whole fiasco among the very religious that peace signs were "broken crosses" and therefore the devil's business. So we drew them without the middle line. Or we used all three lines and turned them upside down. Maybe that's what all these bakers were going for. Ridiculous either way.
ReplyDeleteWV: porame as in "Porame, having been raised in the world of religious fanatics."
Okay, I knew right away that first one was a very sad peace sign. But the wreckorator could not have been sober making that one. Must have prepared for the mood to get ready, to be able to feeeeel the peace....
ReplyDeleteThese cakes and CCC are outright buzz kills.
y'know, the Israel Kamakawiwo'ole version of "Somewhere over the Rainbow" was my favorite version of that song (Sorry Judy Garland!), and now I'll never be able to listen to it again the same way :(
ReplyDeleteWow, some true cake wrecks here! Where do you find all these?
ReplyDeleteI think that 3rd one down is done wrong because they couldn't wedge another cupcake in there for the last line.
ReplyDeleteWHOA!! Double peace sign! What is happening???
ReplyDeleteFor like half a second I was scared that some how you had a picture of the peace sign cake I helped my little brother make in cubscouts. But it was correct and involved rainbow sprinkles and therefore was better than any of these.
ReplyDeletePeace sign cakes that make the buyer homicidal. What more could you ask for?
ReplyDeleteEwwwkay those make total sense O_o
ReplyDeleteA peace sign made of camo.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking peace through strength.
That's what they were going for.
That and 70s LSD flashbacks.
Seriously, am I the only one who sees a penis strapped into a ring in the second picture? :D Sorry if I have a weird fantasy :D:D:D
ReplyDeleteMy mind also immediately screamed "Mercedes" when I saw that cake as well. Let's go shopping!
ReplyDeleteIs it just me, or does anyone else see four crystals stuck into that first cake?? If not, what ARE those four lumps?
ReplyDeleteNot that it really matters -- that is one darn UGLY cake!!!
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Hooray for Nuclear Disarmament Logos!
ReplyDeleteI had no clue what the first cake was. Are you sure that is purposeful and not some type of fungus growing on top of the original icing? As for the last one, I never knew peace signs could mutate and sprout legs :O
ReplyDeleteWhat? not "Kumbaya"?
ReplyDeleteI think the first cake is actually a peace-sign-camo mashup, like they couldn't decide which one to do so they did both. sorta.
Nancy
Is the camo cake supposed to be shaped like Texas, or am I hallucinating due to the Glaucoma medication?
ReplyDeletewv: impandi
Some of these cakes should be impandi by the Cake Police.
Andrea at 11:20, those are actually holes in the cake. I know, I had to look at it a few times too. In fact, I couldn't even tell that it was a peace sign until a scrolled down to the other cakes. Those trippy colours make for a bonus optical illusion, which I think is pretty fitting all things considered.
ReplyDeletewv: sandam: Those are sandam ugly cakes!
Oh mannnnnmn. Flashbacks. Givin' corporate types and state militia guys the peace sign. But I'm with Nancy, the soundtrack is nice and fits your tale--but is not genuine vintage/retro/historical/whatever. For that we need "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" or the ever-sturdy-but-pro-peace "If I Had a Hammer."
ReplyDeleteI'd also throw in "Leavin' On a Jet Plane" because that's what I'd do if anyone gave me one of these cakes.
Terrell, a former flower child
Am I the only one to see Flux Capacitors in the pictures 2-5?
ReplyDeleteThe two peace cake: when one peace is not enough.
ReplyDeleteWarning: may contain addictive substances.
Cue hippie music and Marie Antoinette saying, "Let them eat cake."
Blessed are the peacebakers
ReplyDeleteWell, at least now we know what bakers' favorite car manufacturer is.
ReplyDeleteUke: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uke
ReplyDeleteOOOOH! Double peace sign, all the way!! What does it mean????
ReplyDeleteWhat fiasco? When I think fiasco, I think "Spaceship Earth." I just read through all of yesterday's comments and there were only a couple that didn't like the post. Did I miss something?
ReplyDeleteI will never understand why so many people mistake the peace symbol for the Mercedes-Benz symbol.
ReplyDeleteI think the fifth one down (the plain white) is supposed to be a pie chart. Looks like about 40% are 2 for $6.00, 32% are thanked for shopping and 38% are undecided.
ReplyDeleteOh Lord, won't you buy me a decorated cake?
My friends are all on Cake Wrecks, how much can I take?
Worked hard all my lifetime, now I can't stand to bake,
So Lord, won't you buy me a decorated cake?
- Janis Joplin
That second peace sign, if that's what you want to call it looks like a pretzel.... and too many sprinkles scare me and make my teeth hurt!
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday CW!
That fifth one isn't supposed to be a peace sign - it's all about a pie graph! It says 2/$6.00, and that's like 2/6, which is 1/3, which is each section of the graph! Yay math cakes!
ReplyDelete#1 There are crystals of some kind / something embedded in the frosting. Rock candy -- yeah, that's it. Nothing suspicious here.
ReplyDelete#2 A giant frosted pretzel, with the appetizing factor further boosted by the blue / gray / purple color scheme. Reduced price, too -- gee, I wonder why.
#3 I was wondering who 'Habbie' might be, until I realized that it's 'Hallie'. Surely Habbie / Hallie deserves a real cake...?
#4 A CCC (patooie!) cry for help. Can't we stop picking on these poor wreckerators? Do we have to hear about their struggles every. single. day?! (Yes, we do!)
#5 Was $3, now 2 for $6! I'm glad someone passed basic math. Mad promotional skills, too. Of course, the 'special' pricing implies there is more than one of these...
#6 That cupcake is so plain looking. Couldn't they have dressed it up? I mean, three pieces of flotsam and a pound of sprinkles is all they could come up with -- that's pathetic. Obviously a beginning wreckerator.
#7 Is that -- a *double* peace sign?! It is! (sob) [recovering composure] Better than half a peace sign, I suppose.
wv: jurgl. What I heard from the stomach region when I viewed the second wreck.
Oddly, I own a camo fedora with a rhinestone peace sign on it. I bought it specifically because I found the juxtaposition funny.
ReplyDeleteI totally had a Mercedes cake for my 14th birthday! It was well done, just covered in tiny mushrooms & Mercedes logos.
ReplyDeleteword thingy: unwersfr- I was unwersfr the experience.
Am I the only one who thought the "Japanese Water Park" cake looked like a uterus in a circle?
ReplyDeleteMy gawd, what in the world was the decorator of #1 trying to do? If it weren't for the airbrushing, there is no way at all I could have guessed it was supposed to be a peace sign; it looks more like a mutant jack-o'-lantern. Helena, no, you weren't the only one who saw something entirely different in cake #2! And lastly, what's up with so many Mercedes-Benz cakes???
ReplyDeletewv: mingster (someone born in China between 1368 and 1644?)
Gotta love that "glaucoma medication." >GRIN<
ReplyDeleteMy glaucoma meds must not be kicking in, I can't see the peace sign in cake one. Maybe time to more to California for a new prescription.
ReplyDeleteI work for one of the chain groceries that is usually so badly represented on this site. If you think some of these are bad, you should check out the display cases on a daily basis. Horrid hot messes.
ReplyDeleteI do a lot of typing about cars. My autocorrect for Mercedes is merc which is common enough for mercenary (no, I'm not slamming merc owners), so in my mind the camo mercs are very appropos.
ReplyDeletewv: harefi = however, incandescent, dayglo camo does harefi me
OMG the Japanese waterpark comment is HILARIOUS! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inA-36YRV0Y <--wave pool video at Japanese waterpark. It's tantamount to swimming in a pool of human sweat. ::GAGGING::
ReplyDeleteWay back in the '70's (If I'm that old am I 'vintage' or 'retro'?) the peace signs without the bottom middle lines were called "love signs" and you would see both Peace and Love signs quite often. None of them looked like the cakes above, however.
ReplyDeleteUm... why do almost all of them look like something someone sneezed out? Peace...booger...peace...booger... I don't get the connection.
ReplyDeleteOMG omg.... "birds eye view of a lazy river in a Japanese water park" I cannot stop laughing.....
ReplyDeleteSeriously.
@susanlee in highschool i was friends a very religious girl, i couldn't draw, wear, buy, read, look at or go near anything with a peace sign with out getting a big lecture about "broken crosses" everytime
ReplyDeleteI'm with Helena on this one. I totally see twig and berries in an oval, but maybe I just need to get my mind out of the gutter.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that cute cupcake cake was to celebrate Hallie's new Mercedes Benz? Or to cheer Hallie up because her parents wouldn't buy her the Mercedes that she was hoping for?
ReplyDeleteUmmm I happen to think the cupcake with the peace sighn cannot even compare to the other wrecks on here cmon now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou might want to look up what "uke" REALLY means before somebody gets the wrong impression. Any anime or manga fan worth their salt will know what it is, which might not be a good thing.
ReplyDeletePfft, that double peace sign XD The cammo one was pretty epic too.
What is the last one even supposed to be? Haha--your blog is soo funny. I have a feeling the cakes wouldn't be nearly as funny without your snarky comments. :) Thanks for making me laugh! :)
ReplyDelete~Eve S. D'ropper, of http://wordsfromthehallway.blogspot.com
Uke can reefer to a ukulele, but I wouldn't call it that in Japan. Or around Yaoi fans...
ReplyDeleteAmazingly created. That's another perfect works from cake artists.
ReplyDeleteSorry but all i could hear was Kermit singing The Rainbow Connection
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRvhRhWWE44
"Grab my trusty Uke."
ReplyDeleteHehe.
I promise to grow up and stop giggling like a twelve year old.
Eventually.
Okay, perhaps not.
Hmm that first cake looks like someone's horse stomped on it then dragged it through multicolored poo..then again maybe that's just me lol. Scary how they manage to not be able to draw a peace symbol yet can manage to put a bunch of plastic yuck on their cakes. Honestly I feel the plastic flotsam should be flung at them lol.
ReplyDeleteI am certain that first cake was baked using the silicone "peace symbol" pan widely available on the internet (and another excellent reason to spurn silicone pans).
ReplyDeletehttp://www.google.com/search?q=silicone+peace+symbol+pan&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Mn7&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivns&source=univ&tbs=shop:1&tbo=u&ei=t-txTbHDGIiosAPNqOHDCw&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=image&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQzAMwAg
WOW, Double peace sign...
ReplyDelete@ Shelley Parker Chandler --
ReplyDeleteThank you for explaining that there is a peace symbol pan. I read every comment about that first cake before your explanation gave me a clue as to why it is what it is. Why it is tie-dyed is another matter best left undiscussed.
I had to read the comments on here before I finally figured out that the "crystals" on the first cake are actually cut-outs. Wowza.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that Jen knows the other meaning of "uke," hence her disclaimer. ;) As a seme myself, I approve of both suggestions! Let us grab both musical instruments and our respective partners, why not! I'm going to need SOMEONE to hold me after these cakes and their horrifying mutilation of the beloved peace sign give me nightmares...
@Susanlee:
ReplyDeleteI went to a Christian school myself. Similar hysteria took place. Possibly the admins should have worried more about the underage drinking and sex and less about the slim possibility of teenagers inadvertently wearing a symbol with non-Christian connotations.
My father is still convinced that Dungeons and Dragons is a gateway drug for Satanism. He won't find out different, either, because he won't examine its actual content for fear of being influenced by it.
I have not yet found the area in D&D online where the computer rolls 2d6 for me to Enact Satanic Ritual. I guess it must be in the pen and paper version.
I think the 2nd one down is not supposed to be a peace sign but rather a cake shaped to look like a pretzel.
ReplyDeleteI love that they all have "managers special" stickers on them. Even the managers know they are fugly! LOL
ReplyDeletethe peace sign without the middle line means love, the one made out of cupcakes is actually really cute
ReplyDeleteI, too, see a wanger in that 2nd peace cake... maybe they were going for a "piece"?
ReplyDeleteWhat a very entertaining and educational post. Of course, somethings I think I'm better off not knowing. This is why I should further avoid looking up unfamiliar alternate meanings I see referenced on CW from here on out.
ReplyDeletewv: pusksh
"When I looked up the alternate meaning of uke, my coffee made a pusksh sound when it came flying out of my mouth."
Hee! I made cakewrecks! For those who can't tell, cake #2 (Japanese water park) is a cupcake cake. And they couldn't even manage to make it round, which was the second thing I noticed about it (first being the horrible colours). Third was, of course, that even ignoring the squishedness, it still was wrong.
ReplyDeleteI think some of these wreckorators had indulged in "glaucoma meds" before getting to work.
ReplyDelete"Hey, man, have you ever really looked -- I mean REALLY looked at -- your hand holding a piping bag?"
The icing colors (especially the actual cupcake frosting) on hallie's c akes are very un-food-like.
ReplyDeletewv: komerse. These bakers should be banned from membership in the Chamber of Komerse.
I do aikido. So, to me, your "uke" joke was hilarious!
ReplyDeleteOMG it does look like flabbie!!!
ReplyDeleteWV: larthe - I'm larthe to leave you mah dahling, but, alas, we cannot be togetha like this anymahr!
oh lord, won't you bake me a Mercakes Benz,
ReplyDeletemy friends all eat cupcakes, I must make amends.
It seems fitting that I just happened to be holding my ukulele when I this post (yes, I'm a month behind lately). And no, I had never heard the alternate meaning of "uke". I'll have to be careful when using that term from now on. Here's a great site for those interested in all things ukulele. Probably best you don't pronounce the title out loud, though.
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