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domo_kun_sai

2011-12-22 04:14:27 AM

I don't want.

AverageAmericanGuy

2011-12-22 04:19:27 AM

You know what would be awesome?

A picture of the goddamned cake.

Idiots.

muzzrphochr

2011-12-22 04:26:18 AM

AverageAmericanGuy: You know what would be awesome?

A picture of the goddamned cake.

Idiots.

there is link.

stmedia.startribune.com

on a side note: ftfa → 'and was possibly made with cats wee" -- otherwise called pee.'

/O'rly!

Anavrinman

2011-12-22 04:28:00 AM

Oh subby. Brilliant.

Knight without armor

2011-12-22 04:30:13 AM

muzzrphochr [TotalFark] Add Favorite User Quote 2011-12-22 04:26:18 AM Ignore User
AverageAmericanGuy: You know what would be awesome?

A picture of the goddamned cake.

Idiots.

there is link.

on a side note: ftfa → 'and was possibly made with cats wee" -- otherwise called pee.'

The pee is in the 4,200 year old 'mummy's' cake.

AverageAmericanGuy

2011-12-22 04:30:14 AM

muzzrphochr: AverageAmericanGuy: You know what would be awesome?

A picture of the goddamned cake.

Idiots.

there is link.

[stmedia.startribune.com image 560x425]

Thanks! I see it linked in the article now.

I'm going to go throw up now.

maram500

2011-12-22 04:42:41 AM

Just...ew. Although I've seen cakes in my 25-year lifetime that look nastier than that--anyone ever see "Ace of Cakes"?!

If it is a spice cake, then it is by far one of the nastier cakes possible. Possibly the only thing nastier would have been a fruitcake, although with the booze those things are soaked in, one could possibly be around from the American Civil War or before that time.

steve_lou

2011-12-22 05:05:11 AM

Napoleon Dynamite: At the Utah State Fair, you can witness pretty much the most amazing skills of the land. Like flower arranging skills, painting skills, quilting skills, cake baking skills...
Pedro: You can not eat the cakes.
Napoleon Dynamite: Huh?
Pedro: The cakes, they are not for eating.
Napoleon Dynamite: Did you eat one or something?
Pedro: Yes. A little bit.
Napoleon Dynamite: Dang.
Napoleon Dynamite: Pedro, those cakes are like a hundred years old.
Pedro: I feel pretty sweaty.

Happy Hours

2011-12-22 05:11:55 AM

Can someone explain why the cake wasn't eaten or thrown out when it was too old to eat?

jingks

2011-12-22 05:18:54 AM

Happy Hours: Can someone explain why the cake wasn't eaten or thrown out when it was too old to eat?

It was forgotten in a closet.

TenJed_77

2011-12-22 05:43:00 AM

muzzrphochr: AverageAmericanGuy: You know what would be awesome?

A picture of the goddamned cake.

Idiots.

there is link.

[stmedia.startribune.com image 560x425]

on a side note: ftfa → 'and was possibly made with cats wee" -- otherwise called pee.'

/O'rly!

makes no difference the link is classified as streaming media and is picked up by our proxy.

Happy Hours

2011-12-22 05:44:33 AM

jingks: Happy Hours: Can someone explain why the cake wasn't eaten or thrown out when it was too old to eat?

It was forgotten in a closet.

Really? In 1911 they kept their cakes in closets?

That's weird because in my lifetime cakes have always been kept in cake containers on the counter.

How would you forget a cake? Sure, maybe so much food was prepared for some feast that they didn't get around to even slicing it but why wouldn't you eat it eventually? You think they just said - oh, let's store it in the closet until next Xmas.

droosan

2011-12-22 05:59:19 AM

Happy Hours: Can someone explain why the cake wasn't eaten or thrown out when it was too old to eat?

FTFA: The cake was packed within a six-sided florist box with the handwritten inscription, "XMAS CAKE BAKED IN DEC. 1911" on the lid. On the bottom of the box, there was more handwritten inscription: "Xmas Cake Baked in Year 1911 by my Mother's Brother Alex died Dec. 27. Was operated on Xmas Day."

Looks like it was kept as a memento of its baker.

leevis

2011-12-22 06:18:16 AM

Keep it away from Elaine Benes, she likes her cake older than her.

66dude

2011-12-22 06:59:39 AM

leevis: Keep it away from Elaine Benes, she likes her cake older than her.

Damn... came here to say that.

Crackers Are a Family Food

2011-12-22 07:09:45 AM

"I collect pictures of cakes that I cut out of the magazines. It all started when Good Housekeeping featured a photo of a lovely cake. Now, at my age, I don't have much saliva left, so you'll have to lick my thumb to turn the page."

/my security code was "pants evolved"

rogue49

2011-12-22 07:34:21 AM

Why?

Jon iz teh kewl

2011-12-22 07:56:19 AM

NO SOUP FOR U

Sabyen91

2011-12-22 07:58:56 AM

Mrs. Haversham is jealous.

Millennium

2011-12-22 08:18:12 AM

This headline is much funnier if you know the other meaning "Christmas cake" has in Japan.

Wonderduck

2011-12-22 08:47:53 AM

Millennium: This headline is much funnier if you know the other meaning "Christmas cake" has in Japan.

That's why I laughed... and clicked.

/I'm ashamed of myself.

FriarReb98

2011-12-22 08:50:10 AM

I read it as "Christmas tree" somehow, and immediately got confused at the edible part.

Need some caffeine or something.

dryknife

2011-12-22 09:00:27 AM

There's has to a fruitcake older than that in someone's pantry.

Meerlar

2011-12-22 09:19:49 AM

it looks like a cake made out of muffins...

nameless314

2011-12-22 09:21:40 AM

do you know what 100-years in a dank cellar does to a butter-creme frosting?