Taste The Rainbow
February 22, 2019 [gazing dramatically into distance]
Sooome... WHERE.... oooover the rainbow!
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My, oh my.
There's a cake that I heard of
;)
Once that I'd like to buy.
Some... ONE... spelled out the colors!
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Chris is "blue."
;)
Why... did... the wreck-er-a-tor
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Pipe the instructions, too?
Someday I'll get into my car
And drive until the wrecks are far behind me!
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("Scarlett around the Edge")
Where "banquet"'s spelled right in the shops
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And no one tries to sell cake flops
That's where yooouuu'll FIIINNND me!
Some... WHERE... ooover the rainbow
;)
Bakers try.
They... don't... write out instructions
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Those are the cakes I'll buy.
If happy customers can buy
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Cakes with a "rainbow"
why ooohh whyyyy
caaaaan't I?
Thanks to Tristan S., Vern M., Tim L., Debi G., Sarah B., David H., Brenda T., Karen B., Stephanie D., and Sahara H. for really bringing the house down.
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Reader Comments (11)
Great work Jen! Did you know "Write Happy Birthday in Purple" fits perfectly in the song? I missed the wreck-er-a-tor line, and just kept singing. But you did that on purpose, didn't you? ;-)
I realize Banquet is spelled wrong, but the Blue and Gold part was actually meant to be on that cake, it's the name of the annual Cub Scout celebration.
Concerning these bakers - "If they only had a brain!"
How on earth do I beat that? I feel like my job has been done. Okay, let's go literary.
I shall call this sonnet pair: Petrarch and Shakespeare fight over cake wrecks.
Petrarch:.
Alas! My duck instructions have been piped
Upon the shiny buttercream of woe.
In pink, poor Holly has her name below
Some swirly things that I would like to wipe.
Those colours surely are not red and white
Or even blue! One side is black, you know.
I think there's something wrong with that rainbow.
The rose cake sure looks poised to pick a fight.
But there between the letters I can't read
And 2013's plea for blue and gold,
There might just be some humour for a tonic.
For surely bakers choose the words they heed
And we all know the best jokes don't grow old.
So surely all these cakes must be ironic!
Shakespeare:
What Petrarch missed among his chosen cakes
Was simply that the commentary is true.
They're all professionals, for goodness sake!
There is no way that they're playing tricks on you.
They made Chris blue and check out those green "roses".
(Not that the yellow one would win a prize)
Those wrecks are all delib'rate, he supposes.
I think he needs to blink and rub his eyes.
Check out what bakers did to poor old Tristan
And then take in "congratulations red".
If it was for "That 70s Show", they missed 'im,
And now it's landed on Jen's blog instead.
But now I bid you all "adieu! Good luck!"
Am I the only one scared of that duck?
I call that last mangling of the rainbow "artistic spectrum disorder".
I can totally see using plaques for 'congratulations' and 'graduate'. We all know what happens whenever those words appear on the same cake. But THOSE plaques?
Dark Wing Duck? Duck Dread? Dreadnought? Who knew baking could be so perplexing?
@Mike, I think they do have a brain, and they kept it in a jar on their work table 🙃
Bon voyage, red, white, and blue... now only yellow and black remain.
Lmao!! These are great..just feel bad for the ones that bought em lol.
Both the original post and Someone New's Shakespeare are brilliant!