# So - what is this poem (and related cake) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-this-poem-and-related-cake/753023 "2016-04-24T20:46:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-this-poem-and-related-cake/753023/1 "2016-04-24T20:46:18Z")
Hey, I got two CS categories in one post, right? Anyway: yesterday I was at a nearby cake shop. They do the fancy wedding cakes etc., and had a number of them on display - and they also do novelty sculptured cakes like you see on Cake Boss and the like. One cake on display was Audrey 2 from Little Shop Of Horrors. Another was: - A huge world globe (roughly basketball-sized), topped with - a full-sized pie (presumably a pie-shaped cake), topped with - Palm-tree trunks, each topped with - various breads and wedges of cheese The pie itself also had a strawberry (also molded of something, not a real strawberry) sitting on top. The globe was sitting on a pool of “ink” and a sculpted ink bottle was pouring its contents onto the puddle. I asked the clerk what the cake represented and she said it was some kind of poem, but she didn’t remember what the poem was. Anyone recognize this? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-this-poem-and-related-cake/753023/2 "2016-04-24T23:28:57Z")
This one, I should guess: [If All the World Were Paper](https://treasuryislands.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/origins-if-all-the-world-were-paper/) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-this-poem-and-related-cake/753023/3 "2016-04-24T23:42:05Z")
Wow. That’s impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-this-poem-and-related-cake/753023/4 "2016-04-25T01:09:00Z")
Bingo, **Balance** - that’s got to be it. The cake was pretty impressive. I don’t know if it was there waiting to be picked up by a customer, or if they’d done it to show off what they could do. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-this-poem-and-related-cake/753023/5 "2016-04-25T03:59:22Z")
I wonder if anyone submitted it to [Cake Wrecks](http://www.cakewrecks.com/) for their Sunday Sweets? If it was as impressive as it sounds, it’d be nice to have a picture of it posted, and the deliberately absurd poem seems like it would be up their alley. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-this-poem-and-related-cake/753023/6 "2016-04-28T18:05:20Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I wonder if anyone submitted it to [Cake Wrecks](http://www.cakewrecks.com/) for their Sunday Sweets? If it was as impressive as it sounds, it’d be nice to have a picture of it posted, and the deliberately absurd poem seems like it would be up their alley. If I’m in there again some time (and now that I know how _close_ the place is to me; their other location is a hassle to get to, this will happen more often) I’ll suggest it. Interestingly, there’s a sign on the door saying their 2 people won Cake Wars a couple months ago - but all the publicity for the two mentions a bakery in the New York metro area (we are south of Washington DC) - so I don’t know what that’s about.