Yep, it's a Fail Cake Fail.
Jen G., I used to think the shorter the word, the harder it was to screw up. Thanks for ruining another one of my theories.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Maximum Irony Has Now Been Achieved
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Yep, it's a Fail Cake Fail.
Jen G., I used to think the shorter the word, the harder it was to screw up. Thanks for ruining another one of my theories.
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Are you ^sure* this isn't intentional? ;)
It's hilarious!
Are you sure it's not supposed to be "Final" as in "Best Wishes for a Happy Funeral. This is Your Final Party."???
Regardless, I need to go brush my teeth just looking at that monstrosity.
I didn't know there was such a thing as a "FAIL fail"!
Wow. Sniff. Talk about the ultimate depression... receiving your final cake only to discover the misspelling reminds you of a lifetime of failure.
So terribly sad. I'd say happy trails, but -
Alixandra Hice
http://casahice.blogspot.com
All that black frosting makes me gag. Yuck!
The urban dictionary says:
1. fial:
The epitome of fail. Fail is used on the internet as an expression of disapproval, so failing to type fail correctly will often lead to subsequent ridicule and derision.
(How appropriate for this cake!)
-Alyssa
I think this cake was made to poke fun at one of the entries on failblog- I frequent that site (too funny) and here is the post that probably inspired this wreck...
Not sure why they made a tribute to it in cake form, but- well, it wouldn't be the first time we pondered that on this site, would it?
http://failblog.org/?s=FIAL
Sorry to burst your bubble, Jen- but I think they purposely misspelled it.
...I think this is one of my favorites.
It's also possible that this particular misspelling was intentional :)
Great blog, keep up the good work!
Stop - who does this? This has to be a set-up!
I always take delight in celebrating my "fialures"!! :o)
Someday we'll have spell-check cakes... until then...
The idea of eating a cake made entirely of black icing makes me sorta sick. X.X and that blig plop of icing for no reason is a great touch too.
This can't be real. The utter simplicity of it is what shocks me. Sure, forget to outline the tail on an already ugly looking monkey-cake. Believe that it would make sense to make a life-like baby cake. But ... to misspell the word Fail? Really?
LOL oh wow. Truly, this cake is made of fail. And so is the education system.
My husband and I met in college. He had a project due and was showing me the presentation piece that he made. I about had a heart attack when I read it. It said, "Glaciation in Oiho." Yes, Oiho. He panicked. He didn't believe me that he had spelled it wrong until I took him to the license plate and proved it. He had to quickly run home and redo a section of his presentation piece. Thank goodness I found it! His parents proofed it and didn't see it!
So short words-- they can get way butched, too.
Maybe they did it on purpose. I would have.
Can you imagine taking a big ol' bite of those black frosting roses? Yikes!
NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!
Black poo WIN!!! LOL.
Maybe they spelled fail wrong on purpose... to make it a fail cake...
That was great! I have never commented but I love this blog, I check it every day. Keep up the great cake wreck reporting!
How do you get the icing that black?
Ewwww, I would not be able to eat a cake with all-black icing. That is just gross.
OH MY WORD!!! I wonder what that looks like coming out!!!
Thanks for the translation!
I think this one was on purpose... "FIAL" slang for an ultimate fail.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fial
I don't know what to say about this cake...words "fial" me!
Yes! Fail Blog another of my favorites for a hearty chuckle. The black icing is such a nightmare - seriously teeth, tongues, gums, lips - everyone will be walking around like they've been chewing coal. Ick.
On the plus side, anyone with enough humor to order a failcake probably appreciated this ironic twist more than the original idea. This is a masterpiece of fail.
I know a few people who would have specifically ordered that spelling for the humor factor. I'd like to think that's what happened here, but I've seen too many misspellings of easy words to have faith.
Leah
HAHAHA! So what exactly is a fail cake??
ICK--can you imagine what your teeth would like like after that icing? That cake is one of the most unappetizing I've seen on this blog yet!
Beyond the epic misspelling, can you imagine actually eating a black cake? The icing would be so bitter. Not to mention what your mouth would look like. Yuck!
This may be my new favorite wreck. Absolutely hilarious! Wouldn't you like to see their teeth after they eat all of that black icing?? Epic. Cake. Fail.
I can only imagine what the inside of your mouth would look like after eating this cakewreck. Ewww.
Black poo FTW!
I didn't know it was possible to fail at failing but apparently I've been proven wrong.
I thought it was, like, a Norwegian word for dead. Or something.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
Em... who actually gives a "fail" cake anyhow??? isn't that a little twisted to start with????
Ok, this is a plain disaster in sugar!
Does anyone know exactly what black food coloring does to your insides? I'm not saying that I do, but I'd be tempted to think that by the time it circulates through the bloodstream (you know, along with the useful stuff) that your kidneys would be like, aw son-of-a-b!!!
That is one of the ugliest cakes I've ever seen. All I could think of was that someone ate a ton of black licorice & then barfed. Ugh!
Well, what flavor would the black icing be? "Logic" dictates liquorice flavor—but maybe it's just generic unflavored sugar. Or maybe bubblegum flavor or something.
Epic Fial, of course. I'm concerned for the people that ate this as well. I would flat-out refuse to eat that much black frosting if it were ever placed in front of me. Ew.
I think this is probably an intentional fail, but the worst thing of all is the black icing. I can just picture everyone who ate the cake walking around with black teeth.
I think I got the runs just looking at this one..
But yeah I think that the misspelling might be intentional.. maybe.
Fail cake win!
Seriously, I think this was intentional. I believe misspelling "fail" on a Fail cake was total irony.
And if black buttercream does to you what blank fondant does, expect a lot of green poo!
Fail as in "The decorator failed at making a good cake!" ! Are you serious...black icing...can you imagine how horrible this thing tasted!
I agree with some of the above comments... the frosting alone is the fail!
Okay, so maybe it WAS intentional. That doens't mean it's celver. Or appaeling.
I think it's a misspelled File cake, like you send to your friends in prison.
Yum...black icing...not!
I wanna know what the occasion was
I want to know exactly how many bottles of black Wilton gel coloring had to die to make that cake.
Oh, excellent self-esteem booster there! Wow. I'd just like to know what occasion it was for. Did someone fail their entrance exams? Wow.
You have to wonder at the decorator's response to this request (whether or not the misspelling was intentional): "All black, word Fail [or Fial] prominently displayed. OK. Do you want flowers on it? One's good? Got it. And you want to pick it up on Tues.? Great, see you then!"
Word verification: emose. I think that's a pretty accurate description of how an all black cake makes me feel.
That cake is terrifying. Should someone buy one of those for my post-funeral get together, I will haunt the person responsible until the end of time.
Please tell me that's a funeral cake.
EPIC FAILURE...!
All the black icing and angst should be the perfect base for the ultimate cynicism of our time. And yet it FIALS.
>_<
Maximun irony is a WIN!
Pwnage is a yes.
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When I decorated cakes (back in the dark ages), I HATED using black icing because you had to use so much coloring to make the stuff black that it tasted nasty.
I can't imagine a cake with nothing but black icing. *shudder*
"Fial" indeed.
You can get the color black, by starting with chocolate frosting and then adding the black food coloring. I'm not saying this is good, but it might not be as bad as you think.
Can you imagine how obvious the glutton would be--black frosting all over their fialure face and teeth?
So since it's a fail fail---do they cancel each other out?
I think this was actually a misspelling of the word "file" as a heads-up to the prisoner who received it as a gift.
But why? Why make a fail cake at all? WHY NOT LOOK UP HOW TO SPELL FAIL IF YOU DON'T KNOW? Why make an intentionally misspelled cake, if that's the case? WHy all the black icing? Jesus, WHYYYY??
OMG!!!!!!!
Words "fial" me...
I crack me up!!!
Sorry. Couldn't help myself! meo
Aoccdrnig to rseearch, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit palce. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wohle.
Fial -- FTW !
I've been curiously obssessed all day by the inmitigated ugliness of this cake (not even including the misspelling) and wonder why anyone would find this "design" appealing and/or funny. Even in its wreck-titude, it's neither. Black icing? Seriously?
Whether it was intentional or not, that is one of the funniest blog post titles ever!
it's not the black mouths that make me cringe, it's what I'll see in my toddlers diaper the next day.
OMG, I live for my daily wreckalicious fix but the past two days have almost gotten me fired! The Monkey DooDoo was pretty funny but FIAL...I'm dying here!!!
Adele
Is there a fial in that cake?
Maybe it's word verification cake.
Eckkk black icing. For the record, black icing makes your mouth and teeth blue. I know cuz I ordered black icing trim for a cake and everyone had blue teeth...and probably blue poo*LOL*
What I think is funny is...every black-coloured thing that I've ingested, when it comes out the, uh, other end, is not in fact black, but *green* (cf. eating large quantities of black Jell-O, though I don't know if that's still on the market).
I remember a time as a child, when my grandmother (the one that couldn't cook) made meatloaf. Tombstone grey meatloaf. It was so frightening that I took one look at it and said "I'm going out to eat" and literally walked out the door. I probably would have been in big trouble - if my dad and grandfather hadn't followed me with their coats and wallets!
Anyhow, I didn't think I'd ever see anything quite as morbid looking as that meatloaf - not that someone was attempting to pass off as food, anyhow.
This black monstrosity proved me wrong. Yikes. It's just horrid.
I'm not sure whether the spelling was intentional or not, so I'm going to leave that part of it alone. The cake speaks for itself.
That might be the best worst thing I've ever seen!
It reminds me of the scene in Steel Magnolias where Sally Field is saying, "It's repulsive. It's got gray icing. I can't even begin to think how you make gray icing!" Yeah, that.
I would love to know what occasion requires an all black "fail" cake anyway.
Who celebrates failure?
black icing is easy and not horrible if you start with chocolate icing. Less colour needs to be added so it doesn't taste as gross or stain quite as bad.
still, though...
ick.
Are you sure the real fail isn't the black icing?
Ewwww how do you even achieve black frosting?
Has the owner of the Fail blog seen this?? Too funny! Oh and Christina I think those are a bunch of black roses, not a big plop of icing for no reason. But still, weird!
I suppose it's possible that they made black icing the smart way and began with chocolate. That way you use way less coloring and it doesn't turn everyone's mouth black...but somehow, I doubt it.
Hey Mom, for my graduation cake, I want it all black and the word "fail" misspelled on it. I don't want people thinking we're smart.
Ew. I think I like black frosting even less than bright frosting that turns your poop funny colors.
I'd have a slice, just to show everyone my cool black teeth.
It might not have been that bad... I've had perfectly edible black frosting. You just have to start with chocolate frosting so that it's already pretty dark, and you therefore don't need as much of the nasty-tasting coloring.
I actually know some people with the last name Fial---could this be a birthday/funeral cake? Do we know the story behind this?
Pretty funny.
What a fialure!
It's so black, it shines. Yuck!
All I can think of is what all that black icing will do to anyone who ingests it. Blech.
I'd be more interested in seeing photos of those who consumed this monstrosity....it would be a dentists dream come true
'All your failcake are belong to us'
verification: rummur - it's an anagram!
Ok, this cake is full of 'fail'.
If I was to give anyone an actual Fail Cake..this is what I would write on it. So funny!
I want the story behind this cake. Why was it ordered? What Fial are they celebrating?
And for the wreck-ord, something about the black makes my insides seize up and think back to all the people who might want to poison me. I would then start trying to figure out which one of them sent me the cake...
I never needed the pee pads in my underwear until I started reading your site! You are costing me a fortune!Stop it!
IPA
Lol....
I woke up this morning with the dreams of making you a "FIAL" cake as well.
I'm sorry, but that cake just onws. [and yes, that was intentional]
It looks as though it would taste like black licorice. while I like black licorice, I prefer it to come in the size and shape of a jelly beans only...not on my cake...
that's just wrong all the way around!
Ewww, look like it tastes like black licorice. While I like black licorice, I prefer it to come in the size and shape of a jelly bean, not a whole stinking cake...
Just wrong!
P.S. had trouble submitting, sorry if this is a dup
I was thinking perhaps it was really suppose to spell vile? The perfect goth party cake.
Maybe it's NOT wrong - it's intentional. Fial IS a Ukrainian jewelry shop and Fial IS a satellite uplink (that looks like one on the left) manufacturer. FIAL is even an old Celtic female name, though I suspect it would be a cake for a Banshee given the black and bleak frosting.
I am ever amazed and enthralled at your posts.
Kat
A fail cake?? The icing is black, what color is the cake???
Perhaps "Fial" is someone's name. Who knows?
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I actually like the black frosting. The color is beautiful. The fial just . . . fails me, lol.
moonpuppy in colorado
Definitely intentional. I'm shuddering to think how bitter it must be, too. Blargh.
That is the best cake ever.
I am shocked at how few people posed the question, "why make a fail cake anyway??"
Poor, poor recipient.
Damn. About 8 hours after eating all of that black icing, the toilet is sure going to look horrific.
Had to be written by the government and the IRS to remind people to "FILE" !! Hmmmmmmm....where is Dan Quayle these days?
To get black icing you would start out with chocolate icing and add black food coloring. Chocolate icing is pretty dark...you're more than half way there, so not much food coloring is needed.
I relate to this cake lately.
Always made horse-y cakes for the horse-loving daughter's birthdays, and mostly they were pretty good.
I had no idea how to make black icing way back then (only the red, yellow, blue greens being commonly available)but if I could have made icing like this I would have had the world's most beautiful Black Stallion cake !
Come to think of it, perhaps I'll make one for her next (37th)birthday- yaaaahh !
Would *love* the backstory.
Wish I'd been clever enough last year to send that cake to the guy who stole my Bar exam prep books...and then still proceeded to FIAL....TWICE!!!
word verification: firefyi
"that kwanzaa cake should be set on fire,fyi" ;)
I'm just dying to know what the occasion was!?? I'm guessing there was some retaliation somewhere down the road for that one!
I spent nearly 4 hours at work going through each & every "FAIL" on www.failblog.org. Next to CakeWrecks, that's is the funniest site on the web!!
Why would someone make an ugly black cake with the word "Fail" or "Fial" on it? What the heck does that mean and why does it deserve a cake? On another point, that is the grossest looking think I have ever seen!
This cake was sent by Darth Vader on Luke Skywalker's 21st birthday.
mmm purple teeth and misspelled fail.
Twenty-some years ago a friend of mine got a Darth Vader helmet cake for her birthday. The icing started out as basic chocolate that was darkened with as much black food coloring as necessary. Very nice result.
And it definitely was a gift that kept on giving, about a day after the party when all the guests starting calling one another..."You, too?!".
....I want this cake. I so want it. This is seriously the best cake ever. :D
I'm pretty sure the misspelling was intentional. Whoever orders a fail cake might as well order it with a self-referential misspelled writing on it. Other than that - the real failing is in the black icing - urglll.
Kookaburra said Damn. About 8 hours after eating all of that black icing, the toilet is sure going to look horrific.
Man, you're telling me! This is why I never let my toilet eat cakes with black icing any more.
CAPTCHA: blacr (as in "can this cake get any blacr?")
LOL weird cake I wonder what it was for.
I want that cake! :D
And man, that black frosting is going to stain like nothing else...
Epic fial.
That's not food coloring... it's ink...
It's the flower design that kills me! They make me think maybe Fial is actually someone's name ... but then the black icing is just crazy. But 'epic/ ultimate failure' is an occasion for flowers??? This thing's just ulgy. :)
Wow. Now I have *another* site to addict me!! Thanks for that. Ü
omg! that was such a brilliant idea. im so mad that someone messed up the fail cake.
to whoever did that...
YOU ARE AN EPIC FAIL!!!!
Black frosting is gross. And makes your mouth and teeth turn black or blue.
Yuck.
This has made my entire day.
Not just fail...metafail!
Whoa! Epic Fial!!
Am I missing something? Does everyone know what the blob next to Fial is? I get the humor in Fial but what IS that black mess next to it? Why is no one asking?
Am I the only one who doesn't mind that the cake is black? I'd totally eat a black cake.
I'm not sure I'd eat those frosting roses, but I never eat frosting roses regardless of the color anyway.
Aww that's gonna make a lot of black mouths, intestines, and.. other stuff.
It took me three times to see that the "black pile" was roses with leaves. Maybe 9 years of decorating cakes helped with that? Maybe I didn;t want to BELIEVE that that's what it was! Dang, that's the funniest cake I ever saw...
its been mentioned that whoever ordered it already has a sense of humor, so maybe the cake decorator has the same and saw a chance to join in the joke without to much hassle over it... i mean, how many chances like this come along?
Can you image eating all that black frosting? YUCK
ACK! Though normally a lover of the dark and spooky, that cake gives me the creeps!!!
Intentional or not, this makes me laugh every time. XD
THAT will make your teeth blue-green for days!
not to mention the huge mound of frosting on top of it...
(wouldn't this be funny if this was for a kid's birthday party and they picked up the wrong cake? I believe that would be considered a fail-fail-fail)
MeMouse said...
Maybe this is a divorce surrender cake, like "Well just go ahead and FIAL!"
My friend made a cake similar to this one. But she intentionally put fial instead of fail.
Are you sure it isn't like, another language or an inside joke??
I sooooo want that cake :D