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  Tuesday, July 14, 2009
  
  Tuesday, July 14, 2009
  
  Attn parents: the last photo in today's post is not appropriate for the little ones.
  
  So you're making a Doritos-run to your local grocery store, and you see this:
  
  And for some reason many of you are convinced by this chipped, yellowing, choking-hazard of a cake that photo cakes are a "grrrr-reat!" idea. So you run home, rifle through the blackmail folder, and order up gems like these:
  
  And when you combine embarrassingcandids with the "skill" of a seasoned Wreckerator, you can achieve a level of Wreckage never before imagined by the culinary world.
  
  This is SOOOOOOOOOOOO racist. I can't believe that you havent learned your lesson after the Zwarte Piete debacle! Don't you know that black people can NEVER be referenced without people shouting "Oh, gosh, I'm SO OFFENDED"?
  
  Not to nag, but the :ahem: garment Craig is wearing is actually an alligator. Why do I know this? We sell these garments at work (online stores). We have elephants, penguins, and many more if you would like to humiliate someone.
  
  LOL, I ordered an edible image on a cake once. It was for my brother's birthday, and I found a pic of him from when he was 7 or 8, wearing an old bathing suit of mine he had found. No, he's not weird like that or anything. He thought he was being funny until we chased him down with the camera. He's never quite lived it down, and when he saw that on his 20th bday cake he got up and walked out.... yeah, I guess it wasn't as hilarious as the rest of us thought, LOL.
  
  Luckily for him, the wreckorator had forgotten to peel the backing off of the image, so we simply lifted it off the top of the cake and got him to come back. :)
  
  OK those were all to funny to me, I want to know who got the *moist bite* from Mr. Pee Pee Pants! I still have tears in my eyes from trying to not laugh out loud and have my daughters PCA think I am nuts!
  
  It seriously looks like a 4th grader who is learning the difficult ways of cursive piped E mma's cake. Weird spacing intended. Why put Thai chiles on a cake?? Oh wait, those are rosebuds?? I take it back. A 2nd grader..and one without the prodigious skills of most 2nd graders.
  
  If I had seen this post last week while visiting grandparents I would have swiped some photos to prevent any of these mishaps on my upcoming 30th b-day cake. And I'm now regretting sharing the Cake Wrecks link with family and friends...
  
  well, I was going to say that I feel sorry for the person who has to eat the wet spot, but thanks to everyone else for reminding us all that 30 IS NOT OLD!!! silly youth they don't know anything! 30 isn't old...-Ginny
  
  I'm also surprised that there was no mention of the chili peppers on Emma's cake. They are either peppers or poorly constructed strawberries. They look more like either of those things than they do rosebuds. Perhaps with all the other wreckiness around they were overlooked...
  
  And 30 is NOT over the hill. I'd better not get that party until I'm at LEAST 40. Preferably 50.
  
  Any idea what the random letters at the bottom of the dragon cake are all about?
  
  Anyhoo...If I EVER walk into a birthday party and find a pic of myself on a cake, I'll immediately walk right back out. And if it's a super embarrassing one, I doubt I'll ever speak to the conspirators who ordered said cake again!
  
  I have a little problem with lack of punctuation on the last cake: "Dig in Craig." Intentional or not? "Dig in, Craig" would have been sort of a welcoming gesture for Craig himself. But as written, it is asking all of us to literally dig around IN Craig. I would rather not.
  
  Thanks for the laugh. Have you heard about the American Cancer Society's more birthdays movement? To find out how you can help create a world where cancer never steals another year of anyone's life, visit morebirthdays.com.
  
  For my college graduation party, my parents got me a photo cake with my cap and gown pic. Even though it was a perfectly fine picture, and there was nothing wrong with the transfer, it *still* felt weird having a cake with my face on it. Like their CCC cousins, I propose that ALL photocakes are wrecks.
  
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