# Help me find this site? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-site/279517 "2004-12-13T00:07:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-site/279517/1 "2004-12-13T00:07:45Z")
A while back, maybe as long as a year ago, someone posted a link that led, either directly or indirectly, to an anecdote about a wedding cake. The bride had shown the baker a photo of a multi-layered cake with a lot of crosshatching and three or four autumn colors in the frosting. Complex, yeah, but she was willing to pay whatever it cost. But what she got instead was a **lopsided** single layer cake, with five or six different colors of **gel** frosting running crookedly around the side. Completely unacceptable; I could have done better when I was eight years old. Now, I **think** this was part of the site that has the tacky wedding/bridesmaid/prom gowns (you know, the source of the infamous Pregnant Prom Gown). Does anyone have a link to that site? Or another site that might have the Worst Cake Ever on it? Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-site/279517/2 "2004-12-13T00:15:22Z")
[Aw, yeah. The cake from hell.](http://www.uglydress.com/uglycakestory.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-site/279517/3 "2004-12-13T00:18:15Z")
I love this board. Thank you, **chatelaine**! ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-site/279517/4 "2004-12-13T00:20:06Z")
Welcome! I can’t understand why she served that cake, though. I mean, wouldn’t just a large generic sheet cake with flowers and the couple’s name been better than **that** monstrosity? She could have had Kroger’s whip one up in thirty minutes, I’d think; ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-site/279517/5 "2004-12-13T00:21:01Z")
I’m a dumbass. I sat there looking at the picture, trying to muster up some amount of distaste, but I couldn’t do it. I thought to myself, “Why, that’s a pretty cool cake. I really kinda like it. Do I have horrible taste? :eek:” I finally thought to scroll down. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-site/279517/6 "2004-12-13T00:34:23Z")
> [@chatelaine](#): > > Welcome! > > I can’t understand why she served that cake, though. I mean, wouldn’t just a large generic sheet cake with flowers and the couple’s name been better than **that** monstrosity? She could have had Kroger’s whip one up in thirty minutes, I’d think; Probably, as with the [Titanic Wedding Disaster](http://www.etiquettehell.com/), (scroll down; it won’t let me do a direct link) the baker didn’t have the cake ready until the morning of the wedding, and then a time crunch prevented even a rush to a supermarket for a sheet cake. And **TMINC** , I think the same thing happened to me the first time I saw the link! ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-site/279517/7 "2004-12-13T00:50:34Z")
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: That **dress**. My god. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-site/279517/8 "2004-12-13T01:09:26Z")
Am I the only one who finds the original cake ugly as well? A PLAID wedding cake? Unless you’re Scottish and having a tartan themed cake, I can’t see the point. Of course, it is well done, I just think it’s ugly. The second cake…yuck. (Although as long as it tasted okay…) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-site/279517/9 "2004-12-13T01:55:01Z")
Bride probably thought it was unique and original. It would probably have been a conversation piece: “How did they **do** that?!” And, if done properly, could have generated a lot more business for the baker. The “transformer accident”\* cake **might** have been edible, but I wonder if there would have been enough for everyone at the reception. For that matter, I wonder if it could even have been sliced without falling apart. \*I once made a bundt cake that fell apart coming out of the pan. BIL took one look and said, “Oh, you had a transformer accident!” Yes, we’re geeks.