# Wanna see a picture of a scary wedding cake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597 "2010-03-07T06:23:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/1 "2010-03-07T06:23:12Z")
[Here you go.](http://wedinator.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/129107518734906068.jpg?w=369&h=500) You just gotta wonder who thought this was a good idea. I can’t even think what it looks like, except it looks very, very wrong (with medical waste possibly involved). ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/2 "2010-03-07T06:25:42Z")
What is all that supposed to be? A couple of them make me think of dead fish or sharks or something. ---
**Author:** ![MitzeKatze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@MitzeKatze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MitzeKatze)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/3 "2010-03-07T06:27:22Z")
Oh Good Lord! Is that supposed to be a pile of slaughtered dolphins? ETA: I zoomed the picture (my advice: don’t!) and that is the only thing it can possibly be…slaughtered marine creatures of some sort (some look more like whales than dolphins). Is this a Japanese whaler’s wedding or an anti-PETA statement? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/4 "2010-03-07T06:29:24Z")
> [@MitzeKatze](#): > > Oh Good Lord! Is that supposed to be a pile of slaughtered dolphins? Wow, I didn’t even notice the fins until you said that. I just assumed it was supposed to look like used tampons. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/5 "2010-03-07T06:36:59Z")
I saw this a few weeks ago on Cake Wrecks. They have a [link](http://www.flickr.com/photos/theladygloom/3400939386/in/photostream/) to a purported explanation: > [@](#): > > Made to be displayed as part of an awareness campaign depicting the cruelty of the brutal killings of sharks to make sharks fin soup usually served at Chinese weddings. ---
**Author:** ![MitzeKatze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@MitzeKatze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MitzeKatze)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/6 "2010-03-07T06:38:59Z")
Okay, I was disturbed enough to go to the website credited on the pic (which is hilarious by the way) and found this explanation in the comments section. In this light at least, it makes a lot more sense (but is still tacky for a wedding!). > [@](#): > > Karina says: > March 1, 2010 at 10:42 am > > 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 [Sharks closeup | Made to be displayed as part of an awarenes… | Flickr](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 🙂 ETA: And still beaten to the punch…and I even check the CakeWrecks blog every morning! ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/7 "2010-03-07T06:41:27Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Wow, I didn’t even notice the fins until you said that. I just assumed it was supposed to look like used tampons. That’s what it looked like to me too. Not much medical waste involved there, either, but it wouldn’t exactly be tasty. I imagine a long buffet line ending at the wedding cake, and nobody taking the cake, culminating in a big empty table with one pristine cake and a bride wailing that nobody wanted her used tampons. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/8 "2010-03-07T06:43:05Z")
> [@MitzeKatze](#): > > but is still tacky for a wedding!. I dunno. No more tacky than most of the crappy cakes people often have on their wedding day. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/9 "2010-03-07T06:43:26Z")
They almost look like used tampons, almost. ---
**Author:** ![MitzeKatze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@MitzeKatze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MitzeKatze)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/10 "2010-03-07T06:49:21Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I dunno. No more tacky than most of the crappy cakes people often have on their wedding day. True…more people should go the route I did at my (beach) wedding and serve a giant key lime pie instead. 🙂 Oh and I had real dolphins (in the ocean, playing in the background…their timing was perfect!) so I associate dolphins and weddings which could be why dead sea animal cake looks like dead dolphin cake to me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/11 "2010-03-07T06:52:21Z")
I thought it was supposed to be koi, so I guess I was in the right ballpark. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/12 "2010-03-07T06:57:33Z")
Looks like a ton of old Christmas candy. Can candy corn be far behind? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/13 "2010-03-07T07:01:01Z")
I didn’t want to look closely, From a distance, It looked the the bowel contents of some giant farm animal with a clear food diet and hemorroidal bleeding. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/14 "2010-03-07T07:02:38Z")
So, wedding cake as political statement, eh? I think I’m going to stick with, “Who thought this was a good idea?” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/15 "2010-03-07T07:12:04Z")
Looks like a cake of sperms or little white poops to me! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/16 "2010-03-07T09:10:11Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > They almost look like used tampons, almost. Pads. MaxiPads. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/17 "2010-03-07T09:57:10Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > Looks like a cake of sperms or little white poops to me! I thought they were albino turds with blood in them. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/18 "2010-03-07T10:49:43Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Wow, I didn’t even notice the fins until you said that. I just assumed it was supposed to look like used tampons. I think it’s awesome looking. I also thought it was used tampons, although I always imagined they would be a lot more bloodier. Strangely enough, in this day and age with the internet, I’ve yet to see a used tampon (although I’ve seen them being used). ---
**Author:** ![MitzeKatze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@MitzeKatze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MitzeKatze)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/19 "2010-03-07T18:08:04Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > I think it’s awesome looking. I also thought it was used tampons, although I always imagined they would be a lot more bloodier. Strangely enough, in this day and age with the internet, I’ve yet to see a used tampon (although I’ve seen them being used). If that is something you’d actually like to see I am sure Google image results would oblige you (although _I_ am not running that search to check!). How bloody would depend on several factors, so the dead shark cake level of “blood” could be realistic in some scenarios or there could be a lot more. And wait…am I actually describing used tampons? Oh God! My “personal boundaries” lines seems to have disappeared entirely, so I am off to discuss cats or something until I can find it again. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597/20 "2010-03-07T21:15:57Z")
But who wants a cake that looks like used tampons? I mean, other than these weirdos. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-a-picture-of-a-scary-wedding-cake/531597.md?page=2)