tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post6156229472692303138..comments2024-02-16T18:23:10.138-05:00Comments on Cake Wrecks: Happy Wending!Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11888187687405622408noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-48076397502151261382010-03-02T14:05:40.180-05:002010-03-02T14:05:40.180-05:00My son called this a "Cloudy with a Chance of...My son called this a "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" cake.Chrystal M. Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15977682055994806122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-89130373340887344092010-02-27T18:17:31.076-05:002010-02-27T18:17:31.076-05:00I'm sure the fruit is of superior taste and qu...I'm sure the fruit is of superior taste and quality and all, but... hello, fruit presentation? Maybe they should've thought of things such as peels and cores and not been so slapdash with putting WHOLE FRUITS ON THE CAKES.<br /><br />Born & raised Texan here and I take two allergy meds a day on top of the prescriptions I use to regulate my asthma. We're sweet because we funnel all our aggression into our roadside behavior; by the time we've driven to wherever we were going, we have nothing but sweetness and light inside us.<br /><br />That and the witheringly hot summers; they're hot enough to chasten and humble even a Donald Trump type. I laugh when someone complains about a hot summer day = 90 degree highs. Hello 105 with about 5,000% humidity!Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01507348425989043284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-9575038825763302862010-02-12T11:55:49.876-05:002010-02-12T11:55:49.876-05:00Now we know what a stucco cake looks like. Maybe ...Now we know what a stucco cake looks like. Maybe it was actually intended as a home-warming gift: they can patch their ceilings once the ceremony is over.Sabrinahttp://baddoghairday.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-71538774833226749582010-02-11T15:56:40.192-05:002010-02-11T15:56:40.192-05:00WOW, rotten fruit! Seriously, I stink at making ca...WOW, rotten fruit! Seriously, I stink at making cakes and I think I could have made smoother icing.<br />BTW, the people that have said TX is the state for allergies, they are so right. A local allergist here said he PICKED East Texas because he knew he'd never be poor here, lol.Jo-Mommahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05941411463381999189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-35618917091591723922010-02-11T14:04:01.229-05:002010-02-11T14:04:01.229-05:00The only time Texas has tried to kill me since i&#...The only time Texas has tried to kill me since i've been here is when I first got here 11 years ago from Milwaukee. I went to Palo Duro State Park in the panhandle and they had horses for rent. I was going to rent one and asked where the guide and the trail were located. After they gave me a blank look they told me that one simply rents a horse and takes off into the canyon on one's own for as long as one likes. Now I had ridden a horse or two in Wisconsin on a girl scout trip at age 11, but they didn't ask me my level of experience. Later that day, sans horse, I got lost and became convinced that Texas would let me die in that canyon after dark. I escaped just in time. <br /><br />By the way, you're not sick, it's allergies. It just feels like being sick. Exactly like it.ilovebabyquiltshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07044144669878001141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-49688342271226506612010-02-11T01:29:39.864-05:002010-02-11T01:29:39.864-05:00Get well soon. I love your jokes haha lolGet well soon. I love your jokes haha lolManilaWeddingVenueshttp://www.weddinginthesky.com/manila-weddings.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-1515926271396739672010-02-10T11:57:01.750-05:002010-02-10T11:57:01.750-05:00Sorry you're sick-but like most commenters sai...Sorry you're sick-but like most commenters said, allergy season is in full swing & kicking all our butts (natives & foreigners alike). I second some of the recommendations of tex-mex, barbecue,margaritas & beer, and you definitely need to get you a few half-gallons of Blue Bell ice cream "the best ice cream in the country". Hope you feel better soon!Yellow Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01883801018503810021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-56512502677160629762010-02-09T16:10:42.528-05:002010-02-09T16:10:42.528-05:00Allergies and winter in Texas really are the worst...Allergies and winter in Texas really are the worst things about this state. Come back in the spring. Then all you'll have to deal with is the allergies! Hope you feel better!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00425722182905401095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-7699924064857302252010-02-08T17:09:47.610-05:002010-02-08T17:09:47.610-05:00This is it. the state makes you nice ...or... 100 ...This is it. the state makes you nice ...or... 100 degrees for 2 months!! try coming in august...yuck! but you have to be nice...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-86856371164645159842010-02-08T15:09:29.966-05:002010-02-08T15:09:29.966-05:00Texas loves you! Feel better soon!
I know! I mo...Texas loves you! Feel better soon!<br /><br />I know! I moved to Texas 3 years ago. Who knew you could have allergies in January?Sunny J. Hedrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09779928470268217899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-28911714145882450572010-02-08T14:18:44.913-05:002010-02-08T14:18:44.913-05:00Zyrtec
and margaritasZyrtec<br />and margaritasCourtneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15503135781875935546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-31704092724941907432010-02-08T13:42:06.373-05:002010-02-08T13:42:06.373-05:00My daughter got married in Nicaragua, and the wedd...My daughter got married in Nicaragua, and the wedding guests brought gifts in all kinds of wrapping paper. Some said Happy Birthday, some was Christmasy looking, etc. I thought it was really weird, until it dawned on my that they didn't speak (or read) English. They had just chosen paper they thought was pretty. I suspect the cake decorator here did the same thing.<br />And John, I hope you feel better soon. I'm a native Texan, and suffer from cedar fever. But I've lived in other states, and came back here for the barbecue and Blue Bell ice cream. And Mexican food.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-39410103604354736492010-02-08T13:37:29.389-05:002010-02-08T13:37:29.389-05:00I might be the one Texan NOT on any allergy meds. ...I might be the one Texan NOT on any allergy meds. Somehow I've managed to avoid seasonal allergies although I've lived her 26 years. My husband is not so lucky.<br /><br />We've driven many times between Houston and Amarillo (I don't know where Alamo is, but I'm going to look it up!) I can completely commiserate--that panhandle can seem ENDLESS. I mean, once we leave Fort Worth, we practically have to brace ourselves mentally and emotionally...we won't be seeing anything interesting or eating anything tasty for the next several hundred miles (you see, we've got Colorado in our sights when we're making this journey...Amarillo is not the final destination). It is quite exhausting, even physically, to drive that north-west-ward leg. The wind is fighting you the whole way, the sun's in your eyes, there is dirt and dust everywhere, it smells of cattle and not much else...<br /><br />Anyway :D Welcome to Texas, please feel better! Enjoy your stay, if possible!Lindseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05811496620327329479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-22724501188588314922010-02-08T00:53:26.655-05:002010-02-08T00:53:26.655-05:00Everything is bigger in Texas! Including the suck...Everything is bigger in Texas! Including the suckage. <br />I've lived in Texas for nearly ten years now and the key is to figure out exactly how many allergy meds you can be on without passing out facedown in your chilli.<br /><br />Hope you feel better soon.Fresh Hell, Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15598947126508453031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-42823073871899738982010-02-07T21:01:25.804-05:002010-02-07T21:01:25.804-05:00Margaritas, sweetie...margaritas. a slow and stea...Margaritas, sweetie...margaritas. a slow and steady infusion of tequila & lime into your system will take care of pretty much anything that's tryin' to kill ya. Sorry you're sick, but glad you're in Texas:DTeddy Started Ithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12321502088842462294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-50292324704000739872010-02-07T15:27:53.756-05:002010-02-07T15:27:53.756-05:00Awful for any cake, horrendous for a wedding cake....Awful for any cake, horrendous for a wedding cake.<br /><br />I'm trying to figure out why anyone would put whole, unpeeled fruit on a cake, let alone overripened, unappetizing, whole, unpeeled fruit. Shouldn't decorations on a cake be cut-serve-eat?<br /><br />Guess this cake will be the couples' "wedding glitch we'll laugh about someday."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-13329772169772328292010-02-07T13:17:31.866-05:002010-02-07T13:17:31.866-05:00That cake is not beautiful, but I have to say that...That cake is not beautiful, but I have to say that those bananas, while not pretty, look nice an ripe and sweet. Yellow bananas with green ends might be prettier, but they don't taste as good.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06605107960157664178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-13267509940677092232010-02-07T12:11:59.546-05:002010-02-07T12:11:59.546-05:00Wow, that's...an interesting cake. I was born...Wow, that's...an interesting cake. I was born in the Philippines, and I remember many of my birthday cakes being tiny works of art (a carousel, Snow White and the 7 Dwarves, a Rapunzel with her tower) and they were just gorgeous. I'm not sure what happened here! In fact, one of my childhood treats was being taken past the bakery to look at all the awesome things in the window.sienamystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00914568695074872499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-53673230890040162132010-02-07T12:03:01.194-05:002010-02-07T12:03:01.194-05:00That fruit looks delicious! I can't say much f...That fruit looks delicious! I can't say much for the presentation, but the bananas have the perfect amount of black on them, showing them to be ripe and sweet but not over-ripe and mushy, the whole apples have a very nice colour and apple pieces will look like that soon after being cut. The cake itself looks yummy in a home-made type of way. It's not pretty, and the fruit doesn't belong, but it's not terrible, or unintentionally funny, or nasty-looking. It just looks amateur, and who says it was made by a professional cake-baker?Jamesonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-7276674048733063912010-02-07T10:23:10.000-05:002010-02-07T10:23:10.000-05:00I understand what you mean. I have lived here all ...I understand what you mean. I have lived here all my life and I'm plagued with chronic allergies. The minute I leave the state to go live in Missouri for a couple of months, I cease to have allergy symptoms. It's worse when you live near the coast like I do.<br /><br />-CandaceCandacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18378464621120918308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-85535860024515551602010-02-07T03:39:21.687-05:002010-02-07T03:39:21.687-05:00I'm in the Philippines right now, and all of t...I'm in the Philippines right now, and all of the fruit looks like that - sorry! Love the blog!abipolzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09533976610086774350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-89581054971568423642010-02-07T02:54:54.345-05:002010-02-07T02:54:54.345-05:00Texans are really disguised Canadians? Lol! I love...Texans are really disguised Canadians? Lol! I love that. I remember the Canadians temporarily here for fire training were convinced every snake and spider was dangerous and out to get them, and one actually asked if it was usually this hot, and when would it start cooling down? It was the beginning of summer and only 89 degrees that day! Poor guy sure got a rude awakening.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13713873527722493462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-44403250293828366742010-02-06T23:27:40.712-05:002010-02-06T23:27:40.712-05:00For those calling foul due to cultural differences...For those calling foul due to cultural differences:<br /><br />I'd like to point out a couple of things if I could. First of all, this cake was made for a very high end wedding at a very high end hotel in the Philippines. It was not made by some poor old lady in a village. It was made by professional bakers.<br /><br />Secondly, I have seen some pretty amazing cakes that were made in the Philippines. There are skilled and lousy bakers everywhere. To assume that a certain ethnicity must be proud of a poorly made cake is oddly bigoted.<br /><br />Lastly, well made cakes are not the sole property of Americans. Venture into a bakery in China or France or Uzbekistan and you are likely to see true works of art. I guess I think that cake has become universal.<br /><br />Sorry to rant.<br /><br />Wreck On!<br /><br />johnjohn (the hubby of Jen)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-9914706500787591362010-02-06T23:08:41.609-05:002010-02-06T23:08:41.609-05:00Welcome back to Texas! It takes 12 hours to drive ...Welcome back to Texas! It takes 12 hours to drive from Wichita Falls to El Paso. It only takes 9 and a half to drive from Wichita Falls to Graceland! <br />Sorry you're sick again, but like stewbie2 said, if you ain't got allergies when you get here, then you'll def have 'em by the time you leave!<br />Get to feelin' better. <br />Melanie in AustinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1932214040062195180.post-45398475986912828172010-02-06T22:44:29.619-05:002010-02-06T22:44:29.619-05:00The icing looks like the do-it-yourself 1970's...The icing looks like the do-it-yourself 1970's ceiling stippling in my Grandma's house.<br />~GwenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com