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This cake reminds me of a nursery rhyme: “The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, into your stomach and out your mouth…” *shudder*
WTF is up with the cake topper? Why is the bride’s veil exxxtra long? And seriously, is that thing edible? Did someone do a taste test before it was ordered? I feel sick just looking at it.
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Maybe her veil doubles as a net to catch those sea creatures?
Looks like a bunch of tampons.
That’s what I was thinking. Blech!
Me too! How can they be anything other than tampons?
That is totally what I first thought too…tampon cake.
I’m really glad I’m not the only one who thought this.
That was my first thought, yeah.
I kinda thought it looked like a bunch of bloody vag’s.
or clubbed baby seals..or harpuned white whales…yeah defenitely more like harpuned white whales
Clearly none of you have used tampons, because I’ve never seen one used that was that white. Ew?
Actually to me they look like a bunch of dead koi or something.
Same; nasty.
This was already posted at CakeWrecks. The icing represents all the sharks killed just for their fins, sort of a protest cake.
Wow, that makes it absolutely no better than the possibility it was tampons.
And at your wedding, ew.
It’s actually not for a wedding… it was made AS a wedding cake, but not for a specific wedding… rather, as a protest against killing sharks for their fins. The detail is amazing, actually.
Yeah, I saw that too. Its b/c for Chinese weddings, they have Shark Fin soup, shark fins harvested by merely cutting them off and throwing the now finless sharks back to drown.
A$$es.
That was my second guess – bloody pile of shark carcasses cake.
Shark’s don’t drown. They are fish.
Ahhh, they blled out, weaken, and cant swim to move water over their gills, that is if the don’t get eaten by a predator first.
Nice spelling Frank
sharks do drown, if they can’t swim. they need to swim to keep water moving over their gills to breath.. so without their top fins.. they drown. Or are ravaged to death by sharks with fins. either way… horrible.
Yup, they can drown. In fact they swim when they sleep too, or make sure they are somewhere where current can flow thru their gills/
They’re Koi. Giant Japanese goldfish. They symbolize peace and tranquility. GET SOME CULTURE PEOPLE.
They’re not koi. They’re dead sharks. See above comments.
The close-up shows they are, indeed, sharks with cut-off fins. It’s a protest cake.
Wow, yuck.
those aren’t worms…they’re baby seals. or whales. but they look DELICIOUS…….
Oddly enough, it’s making me wonder what baby seals and whales taste like.
fishy…what else?
seagulls, penguins, seals, whales all taste fishy because it is their main food source and the fish oil which makes the *smell* is made into the nice, fat layer of blubber to keep them warm in icy water.
Is this even a cake?
Maybe it’s some kind of environmental/political statement – the guests are supposed to throw those instead of rice – they look like dead fish, is it anti-pollution or anti-fishing?
Or maybe it’s just a visual representation of what the groom will be smelling all night…
Actually this cake was intended as an awareness campaign about the tradition of serving shark fin soup at Chinese weddings. You can see a close up of the cake on the decorator’s flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/theladygloom/3400939386/in/photostream/
Those things that look like tampons are actually finless, bleeding sharks.
Love the site btw, been following for ages, but this is my 1st comment
I’d have thought they’d at least attempt to make the cake topper look Chinese then…just to emphasize that thought.
Blonde and white just doesn’t make me think ‘Chinese’ tradition.
Yeah, well it still looks like a bunch of tampons unless you get all up in the cakes face….
Wow, the detail is amazing up close! All those teeth must have taken forever!
I think they might be fish. But don’t quote me on that.
Artificial crab, perhaps?
I think it’s supposed to be Koi.
I think so too, aren’t they supposed to bring good luck at an (asian) wedding?
Looks like bloody tampons
It would make sense (or at least a little) if it is a Chinese wedding and they refuse to serve shark fin soup. I bet they won’t be serving much cake either.
If Tampax made wedding cakes…
It’s sharks. Finless sharks.
Was it actually served at someone’s wedding, or is it just a protest cake?
It was to highlight the unethical fishing of sharks for their fins. See comments above.
I don’t think its shark, the tails look wrong. But they definitely aren’t tampons either.
It’s indeed sharks. http://www.flickr.com/photos/theladygloom/3400939386/in/photostream/
My first thought…
“The person who controls the spice, controls the marriage.”
Apologies to Frank Herbert
This cake as far as I know was not used in or for a wedding. The creatures u see are sharks with their fins cut off. They used the shape of a wedding cake because the statement is to protest serving shark fin soup in traditional chinese weddings. It took the artist a very long time to make this cake. You may not agree with the statement or like the way it looks but you have to appreciate the effort and craftsmanship.
No, I don’t have to appreciate the effort and craftsmanship. The ‘artist’ failed to make this look like a shark protest. It looks like used tampons. Not sharks. When you’re trying to protest cutting off shark fins and everyone thinks it’s tampons, you have failed. At least look at it after you’ve done then and think, “This looks like tampons. Maybe I should make these sharks gray. And/or maybe I should make them bigger so they’re not just the size of tampons.” And don’t give me the ‘maybe the artist was a guy’ excuse. I bet 99% of men look at this and think tampons, too.
Lots of wasted time and materials to not properly convey your message = FAIL.
Actually, I could tell they were sharks before anyone even said anything.
I don’t like sharks, but I have to agree with the protest.
If you were able to see the cake closer, you would see how they are, indeed, sharks. I thoguht it looked like tampon at first too, but the close-up is obvious and painstakingly detailed. http://www.flickr.com/photos/theladygloom/3400939386/in/photostream/
I thought they were supposed to be bodies wrapped in sheets from all the victims of their serial killings, but I appear to be wrong.
Well, if they’re animal activists, I’d advise not being so gruesome about their ‘shock-value’ cake, but when have you ever been able to convince animal rights activists of that?
I think it’s the gruesomeness that provides the shock-value, Emily.
Tony’s right about this one having been featured on Cake Wrecks:
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/06/and-now-more-weird-wedding-cakes.html (it’s the third one down), with explanation linked.
Does anyone actually read existing comments before they post new ones?
I agree with the people not reading all the comments first, although sometimes while you’re writing a comment 3 or 4 more people have published their comments and things get a little lost.
Nikki, if people (including you) would actually look at the cake, instead of just glancing at it and making snap judgments, then you (and others) would see that the shapes are clearly sharks. The craftsmanship is incredible because each shark is made individually. The artist lost count as to how many sharks she made. The sharks are white because most traditional wedding cakes are white, plus it makes the red stand out more. Yes she could have used slightly larger sharks, but she chose not to. It’s not her fault you simply glanced at the cake and assumed tampons.
Erin,
Do you have a shark in this fight? Are you a friend of the artist? Okay, so if you get really close to the cake, you can actually see little shark faces. Cool. She made each shark individually. Double… wait, lost count, cool. The fact that 95% of people who see this image of this cake think it looks like tampons are revolted and move on just wondering why someone made a tampon cake makes it INEFFECTIVE as a protest. Not so cool. If this is how the artist wants to spend her time, bravo for her. But, just as you have a right to your opinion the rest of us have a right to ours.
the only reason people think it looks like tampons is that it is totaly taken out of context
if it was a display at a animal rights thing then it would be very effective
Yes, the cake does look like tampons at first glance. I’ll give you that. The only reason I didn’t see tampons when I first saw it on Cakewrecks.com, was because it was mentioned that they were sharks before the actual picture. I read the story behind the cake and am now in awe of the artistry. The cake was never actually used in a wedding, but used as a display (which I’m grateful for, since I don’t think I could eat it since it’s still kind of gross!). I’m not trying to argue with you, nor am I trying to start a fight, I just wish people would at least acknowledge the hard work the artist put into the cake and what it stood for. I don’t know the artist, but I am an artist, so I get a little defensive when people start ‘trashing’ (for lack of a better word) a piece of art. Sorry if I offended you.
No it doesn’t. It looks like sharks at first glance. Maybe you all need better computer monitors.
As artistic as it may be ~ and the time it must have taken to make all those sharks is commendable.. I don’t think I would want to eat the cake. It’s too bad another artistic color, besides “red” could not have been used. While not being red would have less of an impact in making the bold statement; it may have been more palatable. But alas, traditions as well as opinions do vary. To each their own.
its not really made to eat- it was a protest
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Either that cake is made out of used tampons or dead fish…either way I wouldn’t eat it if I was held at gunpoint to do so.
Does this couple love sushi? Or are they just being koi?
Protest *cake*: that’ll show the establishment.
it is in fact a cake made as a protest, but not at any point an actual wedding cake… http://www.flickr.com/photos/theladygloom/3400938580/
Yarrrrr it be dead baby seal cake =D
Seriously–I protested all sorts of things at my wedding–the ban on gay marriage, the necessity of religion and state, might right to display as much cleavage as I felt was necessary–anything and everything that went against the grain. But it never ONCE occurred to me to offend my own pallet or anyone else’s, with a big pile of dead fish cake. Not even crossing my mind.
My wedding cake will be raindow colored and have two men on top. As for religion and state…the governments are already screwed up without throwing the delusion of religion into it….
They’re fish. You know the saying, “There are plenty of fish in the sea?” I’m guessing they caught each other, the best fish out there. And her veil is super long to look like a net.
My first thought was, “Oh…a pile of severed fingers?”
Then I noticed the fish shapes. Still, even as a display piece, it’s ineffective as a protest from a distance, I agree.
My first thought was “Crab Cake” Lolz.
Don’t you see! it’s from the saying “there’s lots of fish iin the sea” they’re standing on a whole bunch of dead fish. The veil is the net. Now there’s only ONE fish in the sea
In case any of you thought the red was blood: there’s a type of fish called koi fish. They’re ornamental and have distinct coloured blotches on their otherwise white scales (usually red, orange, and black). In the case of this cake, they’re all coloured with red blotches which is probably a bad choice for aesthetics. Orange\yellow may look less… bloody.
it kinda looks like a stack of used tampons….
It’s ah nice day, for a shark fin wedding…
I thought they were Swedish Fish.
I had a tempon cake for my wedding too
ack! they ARE sharks! that’s gross!
The cake of bloody fingers?
Maybe they fell in love during a boating campaign. She said, “Cut them off! Don’t let them pass!!” and he said, “I like your style. Will you marry me?” As they get run through by the whaling vessel… just saying.
Nothing screams “classy” like a bloody tampon wedding cake.
The fish could be carp, which are considered particularly good luck in Japan… Still not particularly asthetically pleasing, but it would make some sense, if that were the case!
Looks like a bunch of used tampons to me. EWW.
Does this scream tampon cake to anyone else?
I would make a comment about how tasty shark fin is but those aren’t sharks those are tampons.
Nah, these two probably -belong- to PETA. I can’t think of any other reason someone would be as grotesque on their special day.