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Thursday, November 20, 2008
The Displays That Time Forgot
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Wow, I don't know about you guys, but I am just itching for some cake right now. Or maybe just itching. Is that blood? Sweet!
(And before you ask, yes, I DO feel rather silly for censoring plastic boobs. Happy?)
Ah, nothing captures the essence of celebration quite like crumbling moldy icing and decapitated clown heads, am I right or am I right? Those customers will be pouring in any second now, I'm sure.
Or how about this one, sure to entice all the would-be brides out there:
Just ignore that fly on the top tier; he's been stuck there for a few weeks now, so we're pretty sure he's dead. Oh, and the flowers?
We call that color "perfect patina". It was inspired by the rusting water pipes in our basement. The dust really completes the look, don't you think?
Here's another one for the happy couple on their Big Day:
Ok, so the bride and groom's eyes have melted down their faces, and his hand has made a break for it down his leg. (Heh - "made a break for it") Even so, I have no doubt that the overall design of the bride huffily facing away from the groom and with her bags packed down below is a top seller.
UPDATE: Some of you have asked if all of these came from the same bakery. Nope! This lovely assortment represents *three* separate bakeries, and I believe all of them were open for business at the time. Ain't it great?
Thanks to Wreckporters Extraordinaire Monique R. and Melissa J.!
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- Amanda M. said...
wait... i don't get it. is this shop CLOSED?
please, give me some context. this isn't just a cake wreck, this is just downright bizarre. and... unhealthy! - November 20, 2008 at 9:10 AM
- searching_for_something said...
Those melted eyes, urgh! I close my own eyes and its all I can see argh!
- November 20, 2008 at 9:10 AM
There is something truly wrong about those cakes (and those bakeries). I wanted to look away, but I just couldn't.
Shame on anyone who orders cakes from there based on those examples. - November 20, 2008 at 9:13 AM
And that's some sad latticework going on on that wedding cake too.
- November 20, 2008 at 9:15 AM
- ChatRabbit said...
Oh, ew, ew, EWWWWW. Just gross. They look like items from a haunted bakery shop. The clown one is the "best"!
- November 20, 2008 at 9:15 AM
I have to thank you for your blog. I was sent here yesterday by Beth and you have quickly become one of my favorite blogs. Some of the cakes have me laughing so hard I'm crying. Don't we all need a good laugh!
- November 20, 2008 at 9:20 AM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
That first cake is an actual scene from my house: me -looking fab, plastic & sexy - yet collecting dust and decaying while waiting for hubby to turn off the TV and pay a smidge of attention to me. The empty booze bottle is a sad, yet authentic touch.
- November 20, 2008 at 9:21 AM
- Amanda said...
Oh, oh! How gross! That clown one is freaking me out.
- November 20, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Not to gross anyone out further, but that is not DUST...it is fly feces.
Don't ask me how I know.
Yep. Yum. - November 20, 2008 at 9:22 AM
- Bri said...
You've made my morning yet again!
Which says alot since my workplace flooded (2 feet of swamp/river water - rats, centipedes, spiders, and ringworm) on Tuesday and smells like those cakes look.
Yup, you brought a smile to this face today!
Brianna McCarthy (Passion.Fruit)
http://briannamccarthy.carbonmade.com - November 20, 2008 at 9:23 AM
- Trevor said...
You know, at first glance some of those didn't look too bad. I was like "what's wrong with that?" Then I looked closely and was like "EWWW!"
indeed, places with windows need to change their displays from time to time. - November 20, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- Erin T. said...
Yum... Makes me want to run right out and buy a cake!
- November 20, 2008 at 9:26 AM
- utaduta said...
yummy! dead clowns and mold. my fav!
- November 20, 2008 at 9:28 AM
Long time reader; first time poster.
Just one thing to say...ugh!
~Jeffrey - November 20, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- The Lili Effect said...
Cake wrecks so rarely makes me wish I hadn't eaten my breakfast.
I believe these surpass even the podiatrist's icky foot cake in sheer hurl factor. - November 20, 2008 at 9:33 AM
Egad! Are the top two brown on purpose or from age? Either way it is too scary to think about, can we say ptomaine poisioning? Word verification - plied, as in "I would have to be plied with a LOT of alcohol to even think of eating these cakes!"
- November 20, 2008 at 9:34 AM
Yeeesh. How about next time you start with the least disgusting cake instead of saving it for last? You could have at least eased us into the grossness... :)~
- November 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- Unknown said...
I think I threw up in my mouth a little. Those are so gross, and I am embarrassed for any bakery that would keep those in the window. BARF.
--Kate (redmcfred.blogspot.com) - November 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- Unknown said...
OMG... that's discusting! :P
I think I'll be holding off on breakfast for a bit. "gag"
Thanks for sharing ;)
Linda :) - November 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- Mary B said...
- November 20, 2008 at 9:38 AM
- joyce said...
Thank you for addressing this problem. I visited a bakery the paper mentioned as having great cookies, but was so turned off by the display cakes. Bleck.
- November 20, 2008 at 9:39 AM
- Libby said...
OMG! Seeing that first cake is like going through a time warp. I remember when I was a kid I would go to the donut shop with my dad every Sunday morning to get donuts after church (mind you, I was born in 1979, so tells you how long this cake in particular has probably been there). They had a catalog of cakes you could order and I always wondered who would order a cake with a plastic naked chick draped in some sort of sheer little dress. I mean, it seemed like only guys would like it, but who orders a cake for a bachelor party? Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane!
- November 20, 2008 at 9:41 AM
Gack! Who would honestly leave a cake in the window that long? Seriously? The mold positively gives me the heebie jeebies...mostly because I'm the one that cleans out our fridge so I'm usually the one that finds the nasty leftovers of indeterminate origin.
These are beyond wrecks...these are health code violations. - November 20, 2008 at 9:43 AM
Re: the first wedding cake
What is that top tier sitting on? A cube of tofu? - November 20, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- Tracy O said...
OK, I've read this whole blog and this is the first one that actually turned my stomach. Even worse than the foot and the pregnant headless woman in the tub. Shouldn't the health department be getting involved at this point?
Tracy O
PS Word verification - reopere - I don't think we can reopere these cakes - just trash them, NOW! - November 20, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- Boozy Tooth said...
Charming, I'm sure. All the mineral ore and compost in those frostings sure makes me want to get married all over again and march straight into those bakeries for a little consult... with the Health Inspector! But hey - even the FDA has allowable ppm's for insect parts in our foodstuffs, so what the hell.
Alixandra Hice
http://casahice.blogspot.com - November 20, 2008 at 9:45 AM
- kerry said...
ok, that is just disgusting. bleurgh
- November 20, 2008 at 9:48 AM
Haha, I really liked the first one. I love this blog, keep them coming.
- November 20, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- NanU said...
oh my god.
Thanks Jen; you've put me off cake for a long, long time here. - November 20, 2008 at 9:51 AM
- FreedomFirst said...
If I had an appetite this morning, I would have just lost it.
- November 20, 2008 at 9:51 AM
- Laura said...
it would be better to just not put a cake on display at ALL if they can't update them every couple of months!
- November 20, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Angie said...
Those cakes rock! They are just what I needed, I've been trying to loss a few pounds and now seeing them I have no desire to eat anything. . . ever again.
- November 20, 2008 at 9:56 AM
I'm suddenly very glad that I didn't look at this until after I finished breakfast!
- November 20, 2008 at 10:04 AM
- Angie McCullagh said...
ZOMG, those are the funniest and grossest cakes I've ever seen. Someone was awfully proud of their work.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - November 20, 2008 at 10:06 AM
- Lildonbro said...
Is that mold beneath his feet or are his pants melting?
- November 20, 2008 at 10:09 AM
- Deborah Godin said...
Those clowns do nothing to rehabilitate the image of clowns in general. And the wedding cake with the fly, etc. is just wonderful! I mean it, wonderful...for the Corpse Bride maybe (haha, you thought I was serious for a minute!)
- November 20, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- The Wabbit said...
Oh hilarious! The clown cake is the scariest of them all. You are so right about decapitated clown heads.(Although, that's be best kind of clown head, isn't it?)
Thanks for the morning giggles. - November 20, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- Schmei said...
I'm not sure you've ever actually made me gag... like, really I'm-going-to-be-sick gag before, but the flowers on that first wedding cake just did it.
Urp. - November 20, 2008 at 10:20 AM
- Mini Me said...
Ok, those are disgusting...
I remember those scary little clowns though. I had them on a cake of mine when I was a kid (in the 70's)! - November 20, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Miss Havisham's on her way round to reclaim that wedding cake methinks....
Carol - November 20, 2008 at 10:25 AM
- An Apron Straitjacket said...
I think we've now made it very clear why many people are afraid of clowns!
- November 20, 2008 at 10:30 AM
I was about to eat my breakfast. Now I think I might not.
- November 20, 2008 at 10:31 AM
The wedding cake is the most disgusting wreck I've ever seen, even worse than the foot cake. The fly, the moldy flowers...bleargh! It makes me think of the crazy lady in Great Expectations who kept her wedding cake for years. And the first two brown cakes are almost as bad.
- November 20, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- lizzied said...
DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN. Those are absolutely the most horrible things I've ever seen. Has anyone called the Health Department?? Seriously... that's just not right!
- November 20, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Just when I was thinking about jumping off the diet wagon you put me firmly right back on it. I don't think I will look at cake quite the same way for a while.
- November 20, 2008 at 10:39 AM
- Morgi said...
I remember those clowns-and-balloons decorations from when I worked in the bakery. I thought they were creepy then...
- November 20, 2008 at 10:40 AM
- bozoette said...
They are clearly waiting to take the wedding cake with the flowers to Antiques Roadshow. The patina -- sorry -- makes the cake!
- November 20, 2008 at 10:40 AM
That last one is the Indiana Jones wedding cake. Don't look directly at the altar!!!
I wish I hadn't just sat down to eat my bagel when I started looking at these, but I couldn't stop scrolling down to look at them. Grosssss! - November 20, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Oh come on - can that be for real? It can't be...please...
(and I was going to comment about the censored plastic boobies before I scrolled down!) - November 20, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Wow. For some reason the word atrocious comes to mind.
- November 20, 2008 at 10:55 AM
- *Michelle said...
I do believe this has added a whole new level to the wrecktastic world of bakeries and cakes gone wrong. And all of a sudden I don't feel so bad about my 2 week old leftovers in my fridge. =)
- November 20, 2008 at 10:57 AM
- Brandi said...
I have to wonder also about what Amanda said. Is this from a closed and defunct bakery that just hasn't been cleaned out yet? I just have a hard time imagining that someone would leave something in the window THAT long. I guess anything is possible but EWWWWWWWWWWW.
- November 20, 2008 at 10:57 AM
- Jen said...
Okay, those are the most disgusting cakes I've ever seen! I'm curious too...was the bakery closed and out of business?? If not, that's just gross! Who would buy a cake from them???
- November 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Is this bakery in Chicago by any chance? Because I've seen plenty of bakeries in and around Chicago with exactly these kinds of display "cakes."
The only thing missing is the commercially-supplied posters taped up in the window that have long since been bleached varying shades of blue by the sun. YUM! - November 20, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- Hyena Overlord said...
Are they props for a new Stephen King movie, The Cake Shop?
I hate clowns so I expected nothing less then gross form a cake with clowns on it.
How long do display cakes last, on average in a display window? Is there a town somewhere caught in some moldering time warp?
You should post a kitten before showing us these cakes. That's what Weasel does to warn us of wicked things coming our way.
You could have posted these cakes yesterday BEFORE I ate half of the leftover birthday cake.
wvotd: Fleca..."I see fly fleca on those cakes."
Nonetheless, keep up the good work. - November 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM
- Unknown said...
Ooooh...yum! Would you like a slice of mouldered cake to go with your clotted milk? Heh, heh, heh...
~Amy B. - November 20, 2008 at 11:15 AM
I so want that little plastic boobies doll! Everything else is a bit gross. I was hoping someone went nuts with green-brown airbrushing until I saw the first wedding cake with just a few decorations rotting away. Ugh.
- November 20, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- Lisa Chin said...
I think I'm going to be sick :P
- November 20, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- The Barnes Crew said...
GROSS!!! How do they get business with that crap in the window?
- November 20, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- Jenni said...
Ugh. I never knew cake could be so revolting.
- November 20, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- Amy said...
Thanks for the memories---I've seen all those decorations on cake (sans the faceless bride and groom at the end) but I haven't seen them since probably 1991.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Apparently some people are still walking it. - November 20, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Mmmm... visual food poisoning.
- November 20, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- Rapunzel210 said...
All we need is Miss Haversham!
- November 20, 2008 at 11:37 AM
- Theresa said...
The faces on the bride/groom cake are not melting. The blue is from them crying their eyes out. Which would be appropriate given the content and construction of said cake.
- November 20, 2008 at 11:38 AM
- April said...
omg, that's TERRIBLE!
- November 20, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- Wild Roses said...
That is so disgusting! The wedding cake with the green rusty flowers? EWW! And the second "wedding" cake looks more like a "sorry you're getting a divorce" cake, to me.
But any of them would make me RUN, not walk, away from the bakery.
BLECH! - November 20, 2008 at 11:47 AM
I think I used those clown heads in my first cake decorating class 8 years ago!
- November 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM
- Garret said...
The word, ewwwwwwwwwww comes to mind. Maybe they were Halloween Haunted cakes? Sadly, I'm sure it was some old baker who smells of mothballs and made those in 1972.
-Garret- - November 20, 2008 at 11:51 AM
- Unknown said...
These would be appropriate with a liitle sign in front that said:
"In memory of our dear departed little old lady cake decorator that passed away 20 years ago!"
Or something like that!
I wonder if really old cakes could be the cause of a storefront window fire? - November 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM
That first cake has to be from this bakery in Brooklyn. I've passed it many times over the years. If it's not, then we have a duplicate out there and I will hunt it down and take pictures of it. I'm pretty sure that is the one though.
- November 20, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- Rapunzel210 said...
That crazy lady from Great Expectations was Miss Haversham!!
- November 20, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- Y. said...
Just can't help wondering what those blotches of white are in the last one. I think it's my mind trying to think about something other than how revolting all of these are.
- November 20, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- nrosetulip said...
I wonder what the floor (window) model discount is...
- November 20, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- Bailey's Leaf said...
I thought I was hungry . . .
- November 20, 2008 at 12:20 PM
I'm having flashbacks---I'm pretty sure my mother used similar clown heads on one of my brother's b-day cakes when we were kids. It explains a lot, actually....
Great blog. Keep 'em coming! - November 20, 2008 at 12:23 PM
- Graham said...
I'm glad a previous poster mentioned Miss Havisham. I've concluded that you need a whole subsection of superannuated, DOH-condemned cakes: Havisham Hall.
- November 20, 2008 at 12:31 PM
This reminds me of the episode of "Kitchen Nightmares" where Gordon found the stockroom completely overrun by roaches. I'm going to go throw up now. Thanks! ;-P
- November 20, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Those are hilarious! This is a really funny blog; like a lot of people, I too enjoy seeing professional things go horribly wrong, cakes included!
Anna Marie (Rusty, Bandit, and Smokey are my pets) - November 20, 2008 at 12:44 PM
- Vashti said...
the top one looks like a rat has had a nibble!
they are so sick! - November 20, 2008 at 12:51 PM
OHHHHH!!!! I LOVE THIS BLOG!!! And I love that those "cakes" exist (surely, we can all agree that this is a correct use of quotations), if only so that we can comment on them here and make me laugh so hard I scare the people around me. What those...things...really need is to be stamped with a huge sticker that says "You've just been wreckported to cakewrecks.com"
And fabulous Great Expectation references...
Happy Almost Friday~ Bonnie
Word Verification: Kinverma...ummm..I can't come up with anything on that one... - November 20, 2008 at 1:10 PM
- lexis said...
I can't believe anybody trying to sell a cake has these horrible wrecks on display! I mean, it makes for great viewing here but seriously, that has to be reverse advertising for a business. Hey look at us, we have awful cakes! Don't shop here!
- November 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM
I'm digging that zombie bachelor party cake.
- November 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM
- Bathtub Mary said...
I love this post! The other day I walked past a bakery in my neighborhood, and like a good aspiring 'Wrecker, I checked out the cakes in the window. I got excited for a second by what I thought was poor execution and even worse spelling, but when I looked closer I realized it was just cracking with age and several of the letters had fallen off.
Now I realize that neglect can produce wrecks, too! I'm off to take some pictures!
P.S. Don't know about the cakes in this post, but the ones I saw were in the window of a bakery that is open. Doesn't do much business though - wonder why? - November 20, 2008 at 1:37 PM
- Lauren said...
I distinctly remember those clowns from an old family birthday photo. Just the kind of thing my grandmother bought... in the late '80s.
Blechh!! - November 20, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- Graham said...
No, Rapunzel, sorry, that's not correct. It really is Miss Havisham. You could look it up.
- November 20, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Ho-lee CRAP! (Crap being the operative word here...)
Are those all at the same place?
And, I don't understand the appeal of the dust-colored frosting and the plastic stuff on top? Even if these all look that way because it IS dust, I've seen this look elsewhere, and it is surreal to me that these are cakes, and someone thought this was an attractive juxtaposition to FOOD.
icky - November 20, 2008 at 1:49 PM
The one with the fly would have looked okay if it was fresh. As it is; bleurgh.
- November 20, 2008 at 1:57 PM
- Landry said...
It's like Mrs. Havisham's house in Great Expectations!
- November 20, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Hahaha! You said his hand make a break for it. That made snort!
- November 20, 2008 at 2:01 PM
- M is for Mama said...
I'm gonna have nightmares now...
- November 20, 2008 at 2:01 PM
That is almost enough to make me swear off eating cake forever!!! There should be a warning on this post. haha.
- November 20, 2008 at 2:18 PM
- MaryO said...
Any day now Stephen King is going to write either a short story OR a book that explains these wrectastic kakes. I think these belong in the Halloween category.
The clown kake(wreck) REALLY, REALLY creeps me out. I can just imagine:
The clock strikes midnight. The clowns PULL themselves up out of the moldy/fly dung speckled icing and go in search of... HUMANS to torture, suck blood or.. well. I think I've taken this line of thought as far as I care to!!
Awesomely gross and very, very scary! - November 20, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Are these all because you said you'd like to see a Great Expectations wedding cake???
- November 20, 2008 at 2:40 PM
- sumatra22 said...
Not the cakewreck post one wants to read when scarfing down a salad...ugh. On a more positive note, perhaps the "cake-acyllin" and "amoxicing" can be used to fight diseases and cure strep throat. Much more soothing than those nasty capsules!
- November 20, 2008 at 2:44 PM
- Rapunzel210 said...
To Graham: As to the "Haversham" "Havisham" question--I wasn't trying to correct anyone; when I wrote "that was Miss Haversham!", it was in response to the person who mentioned the crazy lady in Great Expectations. I actually googled "Haversham" because I couldn't remember how it was spelled and got responses. I should have researched further.
- November 20, 2008 at 2:46 PM
- debbiearnn said...
ugh! that is NASTY!!!
Why would a bakery do this to itself??? - November 20, 2008 at 2:57 PM
- Francois Tremblay said...
"And before you ask, yes, I DO feel rather silly for censoring plastic boobs."
Then don't do it.
Censorship is self-tyranny. - November 20, 2008 at 3:11 PM
- Erin said...
Those cakes are terrible, especially that one with the crap colored flowers. who would even want to buy that or better yet...eat it.
- November 20, 2008 at 3:17 PM
- Chad said...
Good Lord! Is that a cake depicting a devastating account of clowns stuck in a mudslide?!
- November 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM
(And before you ask, yes, I DO feel rather silly for censoring plastic boobs. Happy?)
Then please stop. There is nothing here that needs censoring and you have never posted one that did. Censoreship is wrong and these are just cakes. Let it go and just post them in all their horrifying glory. - November 20, 2008 at 3:48 PM
- Lindsey said...
These are so gross! They make me want to never eat cake again! Well, of course, until tonight when I'm with my girlfriends at a holiday boutique... But no cake for at least a few hours!
Those cakes give me the shivers. :( - November 20, 2008 at 3:54 PM
- Das Mutter said...
Ew, ew, and more ew.
- November 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM
It's a Boozy Bimbo on the Beach! And it is oddly fascinating to me.
Is it supposed to be gold, and is that because the plastic sex bomb is meant to be sitting on a beach? The little plastic palm tree is suggestive of that interpretation, and there appears to be writing in the 'sand' too (though I can't tell what it says, and maybe it's graffiti -- you know, like "wash me" on a dirty car window). But then: Pink roses?
Or was it originally all pink, which has just gone brown and dusty with age? In which case: Plastic palm tree?
Furthermore: Why does the "invitingly" posed plastic sex bomb have only ONE wineglass? And, for that matter, why is the wineglass larger than the wine bottle? Or is that a whole empty bottle?!
Is there any explanation for this bizarre justaposition of objects? Probably not, but I can't help trying to figure it out! - November 20, 2008 at 4:14 PM
doesn't the first one kind of look like sand was dumped on it?
*shudders* Oh, and the clowns on the second seriously give me the willies...they look like they're dead! - November 20, 2008 at 4:21 PM
- Erica said...
Ewwwwww! Where's the health dept. when you need them?
- November 20, 2008 at 4:39 PM
EW! Isn't this forbidden or something? Don't you have a health authority that checks on food stores?
- November 20, 2008 at 4:48 PM
- Crazy Mommy said...
Our fillings are: Botulism, e-coli and ebola. Guaranteed to cleanse your colon and end your life. Additional flies are extra.
We'll even video tape you in your death throes for posterity. Questions or comments may be referred to management. Oh wait, they accidentally had cake for desert last night. - November 20, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Is it wrong that I find the faceless bride and groom fascinating? That's the kind of cake you'd see at the creepiest wedding in the world ...
And what possible, possible occasion would need the first cake? Is there some strange public holiday that I don't know about, 'Go get naked and drunk on the beach' Day? Who would order that, and why??? - November 20, 2008 at 6:01 PM
that is just gross!
word verification- quing
Those cakes are definatly very quing - November 20, 2008 at 6:19 PM
- Gina said...
Ewwww, the close-up of the wedding cake flowers made me heave! That's just disgusting!!! Ewwwwwwww!
- November 20, 2008 at 6:19 PM
- ksaldria said...
Oh dear God. I gagged a little reading this. Truly.
Is there something written in the "sand" on the first cake or is it just me? It looks like it says "Help" o.o - November 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM
- Epiphany said...
That clown cake reminds me of "It" by Stephen King.
Creepy. - November 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM
- Ros said...
It's Miss Havisham's wedding cake!!!!
- November 20, 2008 at 7:21 PM
- Michele said...
I think that first one is for a wife making a suggestion to her husband. Maybe that lady isn't getting enough action! (She is living on a desereted beach you know.) Okay in reality, why would you even order that cake even if it wasn't 100 years old???? lol
- November 20, 2008 at 8:10 PM
- Tintin said...
I know I've seen that first one somewhere else--isn't it quite literally an antique cake, as in one someone for serious brought into Antique Roadshow? Because I know I've seen it before. Maaaan, now this is gonna bug me.
If it is, in fact, an antique cake, I don't feel right picking on it. That's like making fun of my grandmother's dress; sure, it might not be fashionable, but it's old. It deserves some respect. D: - November 20, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Those flowers are actually disgusting.
- November 20, 2008 at 8:48 PM
- Unknown said...
Thank you for helping me with my diet. Everytime I crave cake, I will think of those pictures.
- November 20, 2008 at 8:53 PM
- D.B. Echo said...
I love the Miss Havisham cake, with the fake plastic fly and the cocoa dust and cookie crumb flyspecks! Oh...wait...those are the real deal? Awesome!
I would also love to walk into the bakery and demand the Clowns On A Corroded Bronze Parade Float Cake just like they have in their window. It reminds me of the "totally metal" birthday cake from Metalocalypse, where the frosting was actually made from mercury. - November 20, 2008 at 9:09 PM
My husband says the last picture is a Mr Bill (and Mrs Bill) cake. Ohhhhh nooooo....
- November 20, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Even a cupcake cake, freshly made, would be better than these.
- November 20, 2008 at 9:15 PM
- Kel said...
I'm thoroughly disgusted. Moldy cakes still on display? NAAAASSSTTTYYY
- November 20, 2008 at 9:16 PM
I don't know if someone already mentioned this but that second cake looks like something Mrs. Haversham would have. I hope people who order from this cake shop don't have Great Expectations.
- November 20, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Oops, I think I said the second cake, I meant the wedding cake with the nasty "patina".
- November 20, 2008 at 9:26 PM
- Jennifer said...
Ewwww, those melty eyes are straight out of a horror movie. The "patina" is just gross
- November 20, 2008 at 9:52 PM
- Chrissy said...
Holy smokes, batman!
- November 20, 2008 at 9:57 PM
- CaliGirl9 said...
Thank God for digital cameras and the ability to put together picture books of cakes instead of leaving relics lying around for potential customers.
Seriously, what do they put on these things to preserve them? Just nasty! - November 20, 2008 at 10:01 PM
I'm getting married soon and will die if my cake resembles any of those. The tops ones are horrible, bleh!
- November 20, 2008 at 10:16 PM
- Jill said...
- November 20, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Jen - no need to feel embarrassed about censoring the plastic boobs. You've chosen to create a "PG" rated blog, and done a great job of it, too. It's certainly nothing the FCC (don't pronounce THAT phonetically!) doesn't do all the time. It wouldn't surprise me if more than half of the boobs THEY'VE censored at one time or another were plastic, but that's probably a subject for a different blog... ;-)
- November 21, 2008 at 12:06 AM
- Keemster said...
Ick! Everybody else has said it all in the previous comments.
- November 21, 2008 at 6:19 AM
- Christina said...
This post would have been good for Halloween. There is something deeply haunting and morose about these cakes, especially the wedding ones. The moldy one reminds me of the character in "Great Expectations" that hasn't taken off her wedding dress in decades, still waiting for her groom.
These cakes are like an Edgar Allan Poe story, or a Radiohead song in cake form.
I'm going to close all the shades and cry in bed now. - November 21, 2008 at 7:11 AM
- Unknown said...
Anyone else reminded of "Great Expectations" and Miss Havisham's moldering wedding feast?
- November 21, 2008 at 8:15 AM
- Sleepwalker said...
There have been other CW posts that have made me think 'You have GOT to be kidding'. But this one...YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!
Love the angle on the clown cake pic, BTW: it plays up the sagging, collapsing, tilty cross-eyed horror to best advantage. - November 21, 2008 at 8:57 AM
One word: EWWWWWWW!
Okay, more than one word -- not only are they gross, but the clown cake looks rather lopsided... - November 21, 2008 at 8:59 AM
waw u make cake look cute, i lk dat...
- November 21, 2008 at 9:19 AM
- Jungle Pete said...
- November 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM
- Narumi said...
Those cakes and all the comments for hauntings just gave me a great display idea for Halloween and costume idea. The Zombie Bakery and Sweets! (Or should that be feet) I have a year to work on it.
- November 21, 2008 at 10:54 AM
- The Honorable Mayor of Bethville said...
Add some rats and a crazy lady in her wedding dress, and we have a whole Dickens novel.
- November 21, 2008 at 12:38 PM
- Squidley said...
I definitely saw the top one before as part of an auction or something for "antique cakes". There was one with a dude in a speedo lounging on a beach, too. So. So. Gross.
- November 21, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Oh Jen, thanks for making me laugh out loud for such a long time! I really, really needed that this morning! Love your site!
- November 21, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Are you sure these bakeries didn't get the idea from your July 21, 2008 post? An almost exact (and uncensored, mind you) version of the first cake (with the girl on the beach) was featured by you earlier this year.
Perhaps you've merely triggered an interest in "historic" cakes!
Beth A. in Silver Spring, MD - November 21, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Gross!!!! The dusty cakes were somehow the worst for me.
word veri: dreary
If the shoe fits... - November 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM
OMG at first I thought the first cake was a baked meringue cake. yuck
- November 22, 2008 at 2:58 AM
- Unknown said...
Miss Haversham's wedding cake! How marvelous. All it needs is a few cobwebs.
By the way, this blog is just awesome! I love it. - November 22, 2008 at 1:15 PM
- Amanda M. said...
has anyone called the FDA?
- November 22, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- Ayulsa said...
...I feel awful for those poor cakes. I admit I read this blog for the cringe factor (doesn't everyone?), but like many have said before me, I did not ever expect to actually want to throw up at a Cake Wrecks post. This is vile, and really, really sad.
- November 22, 2008 at 5:57 PM
First off: anyone would have to be totally deformed in the head to even be INTERESTED in ordering cakes from those bakeries.
Secondly, just wanted to say I absolutely LOVE your blogs! I've just created a new post on my own that links to yours!
My blog is http://thisorthat12.blogspot.com if you're interested.
Thirdly, seeing those cakes reminded me of this cake decorating shop in another town that had displays that showed really REALLY old cake designs, with all the mould, dead insects and dust included. They were open at the time (3 yrs ago), not sure if they still are...I should check out if they're still open and take some pics eh? - November 22, 2008 at 7:46 PM
- Protomlad said...
"It's the Silent Hill bakery! Come on down for a cake to satisfy your inner demons [i]and[/i] your sweet tooth!
Silent Hill bakery located on the corner of Disturbing and Imagery across from the dilapidated spooky movie theator. - November 22, 2008 at 8:54 PM
Yikes. I didn't realize bakeries still displayed real food in their windows anymore. When I worked in a bakery all the window display cakes we made with styrofoam, plastic and clay.
- November 22, 2008 at 10:55 PM
"I didn't realize bakeries still displayed real food in their windows anymore."
These aren't 'real food'. They are styofoam forms decorated with real icing. Yes, they are gross, but it's not like there is a mouldering cake under there. - November 24, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- Candice Black said...
Why are there naked plastic boobs on top of rotten flowers in the first place?
- November 24, 2008 at 4:20 PM
the first one looks like the apocalypse
- November 24, 2008 at 7:48 PM
- karo said...
The first two are from the same bakery, right? In New York? I used to see either those two cakes or exact replicas of them every Saturday as I passed a certain bakery on my way to Polish school. That was many years ago. Glad to see they're still around. - December 3, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- Reactor Cor said...
Wow, I am another viewer who recognizes the first cake from a bakery in Brooklyn... It is so weird to see it here, immortalized forever... albeit unnecessarily, since it's obviously going to be at the bakery forever anyway.
- December 31, 2008 at 2:37 AM
On the moldy wedding cake photo you can see the name of a market reflected in the window. Google the market's name, click the link to google maps, and do 'street view' for that address. Across the street from the market you can see the bakery. Zoom all the way in and you can actually see that moldy cake in the display window.
- March 17, 2010 at 12:55 AM
Ahhh....shades of Miss Havisham
- July 20, 2010 at 3:20 PM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
Yum... Makes me want to run right out and buy a cake! :[ x
- October 13, 2010 at 7:47 AM
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Before we yet again extol Messi's sublime talent, a case can be made in favor of awarding the prize — FIFA merged its World Player of the Year award with France Football's Ballon d'Or in 2010 — to the other two players whittled down from an earlier 23-man short list. Iniesta didn't merely win the same number of trophies as his more illustrious teammate but was named the best player of the 2011–12 Champions League tournament and also got his hands on the European Championships, as Spain won back-to-back titles after dismantling Italy 4-0 in the final last year. Oh, and he was declared the player of the Euros to boot.
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But whether you agree or not with the decision to award Messi the prize which, not incidentally, puts him ahead of legends of the game such as Zinedine Zidane and the Brazilian Ronaldo, who both won the World Player of the Year prize three times, you can't deny the diminutive Argentine's genius. As well as Messi's goals — he managed 91 in the calendar year of 2012, which included five in one Champions League game in March, the same month he became Barcelona's all-time leading goal scorer — his numerous assists have turned countless games in his club's favor. Messi's dribbling, mazy and effortless, is certainly the best seen since his volatile countryman Diego Maradona. Maradona, though, won a World Cup with Argentina, and Messi's remaining, embittered critics still point to the absence of that gold trophy in his cabinet. Still, he's been a force for Argentina: last year saw Messi score 12 goals for his country, three of which came against continental nemesis Brazil in a 4-3 win. If he does win the World Cup next year on Brazilian soil, Messi will finally throw off this ridiculous line of attack — and in epic fashion.
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While we live in an age of rotation, where coaches seem reluctant to play their best possible team week in, week out, Messi positively hates being rested and wants to savor every minute on the field of play. No wonder that his former boss Pep Guardiola said, "We will not see another player like Messi." And the 25-year-old remains humble beyond belief. A young fan asked the three Ballon d'Or finalists on Monday whether they were the best players in their teams when they were his age. "When I was 8, I wasn't wondering whether I was the best — and I don't think that now. I only want to play football," Messi replied, with customary modesty. As he received the inevitable standing ovation after accepting the award in Zurich, no doubt Messi's mind immediately turned to his true calling — to play football.
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The OS update is expected to address stability issues that left some users with an occasional device reset or freezing of the operating system. The problem appears to have originated from issues with Bluetooth pairing, which has been refined in this update.
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We're also told that power-management has also been improved, resulting in some minor boosts in energy efficiency in the device, which is also a welcomed addition.
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The update should be all at once for Rogers and AT&T users meaning we are not expecting a delayed or regional roll out.
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Now for some not-so great news. For those who are not on AT&T or Rogers, the Portico OS update and firmware enhancements are not expected to go live until early February 2013.
Nokia is working with carrier partners to make sure the experience is top notch and that there are no issues when installing the update, resulting in damaged or sub-optimal performance. Of course schedules can change and unbranded devices may get it earlier than carrier-supported ones.
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The list below contains links to all of our volume flow rate unit converters.


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When dealing with debt, it's important to recognize that there are various types and they won't always result in the same outcome. For example, going into debt for school or business purposes or taking out a loan for real estate (such as a mortgage) could be considered investments that might yield greater financial earnings for you in the future. This kind of debt may be costly in the short term, but could potentially end up paying for itself in the long term if it's an investment in an asset such as education or real estate. However, debt that does not invest in anything is simply a financial burden in both the short term and the long term. This is the kind of debt that must be managed carefully to avoid letting it quickly spiral out of control.
No matter how much or what kind of debt you take on, it's essential to have a solid repayment plan. Since interest compounds over time, the amount you have to pay off can quickly get out of hand. When handling debt, it's always best to pay it back as quickly as possible.
The Power of 50
This financial formula helps you pay off your debt faster. Let's say that you have a AED3,000 debt at an annual interest rate of 18 percent. If you make the 2 percent minimum monthly payment of AED60 per month, it will take you eight years to pay off your bill — assuming you don't continue to spend any more money during that time. By the end of the eight years, you will have paid AED5,760 — almost double the initial AED3,000. By paying an additional AED50 per month, you can pay off your debt in three years instead of eight, which saves you over AED1,800 in interest. The bottom line: paying off your debt sooner rather than later saves you money.
The 28/36 Rule
Another helpful guide is a rule mortgage lenders use: the 28/36 rule. It stipulates that your housing payments shouldn't exceed 28 percent of your gross monthly income, while your total debt service — including your house payments, utilities, credit cards and other loans — shouldn't be more than 36 percent.
Types of Loans


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Fritz Hansen | Selandia Armchair Cushion
Selandia Cushions are custom-made to fit the Selandia collection. You can easily tie the cushion to the seat with strings. Able to withstand wind and weather, the upholstery fabrics are Oeko-Tex certified and extremely colour and lightfast as well as water and dirt-repellent and even mildew-resistant. The cushion dries exceptionally quickly, even after a heavy downpour, as the foam has an open-cell structure that allows both water and air to pass through. The foam provides a firm and comfortable texture that remains the same year after year.
Proper usage and maintenance is vital for getting the most out of the valuable resources we have. Our designs are made to last for generations, but just like everything else, they need a little care to get there.
Agora Panama is Oeko-Tex certified and solution-dyed acrylic fabrics used for upholstering our cushions and pillows. The acrylic fibre we use is a synthetic but cotton-like fabric with world-class features for outdoor usage, making it:
- Extremely colour and lightfast
- Water and dirt repellent
- Free from harmful substances
- Mildew-resistant
Washing instructions
Wipe the fabric with a firmly wrung cloth. In case of more obstinate stains, remove the upholstery and machine wash it at 30° C. If the upholstery is not removable, the textile must only be washed with a wrung cloth.
Quickdry Outdoor Foam has an open cell structure which allows both water and air to pass through freely. This makes the cushion dry exceptionally quickly – even after being soaking wet – with little to no need of maintenance. Moreover, the foam provides a firm and comfortable texture which remains the same year after year.
If the cushion is exposed to heavy rain, we recommend placing the cushions upright for quick drainage. Soon after, the cushion will be dry and the cushion can be used again.
Quickdry Outdoor Foam
LxWxH: 42x42x3 cm
Item no. 1961040
Weight: 0.35 kg


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The front tires on a front-wheel drive vehicle accelerate, steer, and help brake your vehicle. Front tires tend to wear down faster than rear tires. Typically rear wheel tires last twice as long as front wheel tires. Ideally, we recommend you replace all four tires at the same time. Rotating your tires helps ensure even wearing for all your tires. Contact our staff to get your tires rotated.
How do I know when to rotate my tires?
Follow your vehicle's owner's manual suggestions, rotate them with every other oil change, or rotate them every 3,000 to 7,000 miles.


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desertcart is the best online shopping platform in Mexico where you can choose to buy from the largest selection of Men Fashion Clothes from renowned brands. desertcart delivers the most unique and largest selection of products from across the world especially from the US, UK and India at best prices and the fastest delivery time.
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6 x 8, 1-1/2" Durso Standpipe Drain , 3/4" Return Assm.
Three sided Internal Overflow is 6"x 10", has a 1-1/2" Durso Standpipe Drain and a 3/4" Return Assembly with T swivle discharge flare. Used for tanks up to 24" tall.This overflow is incorporated into the middle of the end or back of your tank ( PLEASE TELL ME WHERE ). It is used in conjunction with a Wet-Dry Trickle filter. The overflow has a Pre-Filter Assembly, which is a layer of filter material wrapped around a standpipe. This is called mechanical filtration, it is what traps particles of debri. Additionally, this internal overflow includes a Return Assembly, this is used to mask the hose that brings the water from the Wet-Dry filter pump below back into the tank. It comes with a barbed fitting below the tank and a swivle discharge nossle that is 2 inches below the water level. The overflow is black by default unless YOU specify otherwise. All bulkheads are included and all bulkhead holes are pre-drilled. Overflow also comes with a cover and a black-out panel. See Internal Overflow in out Library Section for more information.


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WASHINGTON – Promoting online freedom in repressive countries is at the core of the Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA) passed yesterday by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights. The Subcommittee is chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), who is also Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission).
At the March 27, 2012, markup, Chairman Smith described the deteriorating state of freedom of political and religious speech online and the growing danger for dissidents who use the Internet.
"The threat to human rights is very serious," said Smith. "Reporters Without Borders just released its 'Internet Enemies' list that names the countries that violate their citizen's online freedoms. Their report tells us that China, Vietnam and Iran are the world's biggest prisons for netizens. But other countries are not lagging far behind. Sadly, it's through the assistance of Western companies and technology – and this includes American companies and technology – that governments like those of Iran, China, Syria, and many other countries are transforming the Internet into a 'weapon of mass surveillance.'" (Click here to read Chairman Smith's opening statement.)
By unanimous consent the subcommittee agreed to amend Smith's original bill and replace it with new revised text that is expected to win full committee support. The provisions added by Smith through an amendment in the nature of a substitute (Click here for the amended text of H.R. 3605) are designed to significantly help democratic activists and human rights defenders by creating a new transparency standard for Internet companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges and operating in countries that substantially censor or control the Internet.
As amended, H.R. 3605 now requires Internet companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to disclose to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) how they conduct their human rights due diligence, including with regard to the collection and sharing of personally identifiable information with repressive countries, in addition to the steps they take to notify users when they remove content or block access to content.
In response to numerous reports of U.S. technology being used to filter political and religious speech, as well as track down or conduct surveillance of activists through the Internet or mobile devices, the bill prohibits the export of hardware or software that can be used for surveillance, tracking, blocking, etc. to governments in an Internet-restricting country.
The Global Online Freedom Act has been supported by Yahoo!, Freedom House, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Access, (Click here to read Yahoo!'s letter of support; click here to read letters of support from human rights NGOs.) On July 15, 2011, Chairman Smith held a hearing, "The Promises We Keep Online: Internet Freedom in the OSCE Region," at the Helsinki Commission. (Click here to read a transcript of the Helsinki Commission hearing.)
Rep. Smith, a senior member of Congress, is also the Chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. He is a leading voice on human rights issues and the author of a number of landmark human rights bills, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.


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CLEARANCE SALE: Check Our SALE Items link for up to 50% DISCOUNTS on selected items. Many very nice gifts can be found there! NOT GETTING OUR EMAILS? Please CHECK your SPAM filters for mail from Richard and notify us if you do not hear from us within 24 hours of asking a question, making an offer, or placing an order.
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The Midwest Emporium has sold in this location since March 22, 2004, with over 3,877 Happy Customers who have purchased over 6,861 items. To JOIN OUR MAILING LIST and be first to hear about Newest Listings and Special Sales, use the link at the bottom of each page.
Welcome to the Midwest Emporium. This is NOT a physical store, it is ONLY a website store. We are a husband & wife team who sell on the Internet, who used to sell in Local Area Antique Malls.
Since Aug. 4, 1998, we have sold on eBay (seller name of Hybidwins) and have a eBay Store also called Midwest Emporium. Our feedbacks of over 15159 are 100% positive and speak of customer satisfaction.
We also have a Midwest Emporium Store on Bonanza.
We have a large inventory, so if you don't see it here, feel free to ask, we might have just what you are looking for or be able to find it.
We are down-sizing our business, looking towards retirement, so be sure to check our "SALE ITEMS" link for great bargains! AND If you feel our regular price is too high, if the item has a Make Offer button, Please make us an offer. All reasonable offers are seriously considered. We understand budget constraints, and will be happy to work with you, so that you might obtain your desired gift or treasure.
Some of our items are listed for sale at other venues and are subject to simultaneous sale. We work diligently to keep our inventory up-to-date. If on rare occasion, your chosen item has been sold, you will be notified as soon as possible, with any payments refunded to you immediately.
Currently WE ARE NOT BUYING.
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Over the past five years that I have invested in intensive food photography, I have learned so many vital things about the different aspects of tabletop photography. When I look back now, what began merely as a "hobby" has become not only a passion but something I am pursuing on a more professional level.
My journey towards this goal has been an enormous learning experience, where I literally engulfed every bit of information and detail that brought me a step closer to my vision. I learnt how light and lighting, color, texture, focus, aperture (an so much more) all play essential roles in the final outcome of the image. These aspects convey the mood and elicit the atmosphere to the viewer.
What's For Lunch, Honey? will be celebrating a grand five years of blogging next year and as I look back to the early days I remember so many instances that made me progress towards food photography as a serious "hobby".
Having a good camera is of course an important factor. However, I always advice people, who write to me or when I am speaking at conferences, to buy the best camera your budget allows you to. Once you have that camera - learn how to use it - inside out!
One does not need to invest in a DSLR camera straight away, there are many qualitative high end point-and-shoot cameras on the market today that will do the job for a blogger looking to improve their photography skills for their blogs. Eventually, when you realize that food photography is something you would like to to invest more time and money in you will have no option but to make the switch to a DSLR camera.
The type of camera and the lens is subject to an entirely separate post but in this post I wanted to tackle something a little offside the camera topic. The motivation for this post actually comes from several emails I get asking me how I get the crystal clear images. While camera and knowing how to focus on the motive properly do play the biggest role, I also believe an additional piece of equipment, helps immensely.
The tripod, hardly mentioned and taken for granted when discussing photography, but I cannot stress enough what a big difference a tripod makes for critical photographs. Every serious amateur photographer should own at least one.
Using a tripod for close-ups of flowers, food or still-life shots will allow you better and more effective control over some of the more manual functions your camera offers. You can, for example, use a slower shutter speed without worrying about moving the camera as you take the picture, which in turn gives you the opportunity to use a smaller lens opening for greater depth of field. A greater depth of field requires the smallest lens opening you can manage and still have enough light getting into your camera for adequate exposure. Adding more light, using external lights, plus a slower shutter speed, will allow either you, or your camera's automatic circuitry, to pick a smaller lens opening. Depth of field, of course, is the amount of depth in an object that appears in sharp focus, as you will see the difference in the following two pictures.
I love using the tripod because it allows me to set up my shot easily and I have my hands free. Having the camera mounted on a tripod gives me the chance to prepare my motive and all the props around the motive without having to constantly pick up the camera. The camera is fixed in a certain angle and position and looking through the lens, I begin to set up my motive and the props. Working this way, I find I am setting up the image perfectly for the chosen angle instead of trying to find the perfect angle for a pre-set shot. Furthermore, it allows me to take a sort of a short breather, after framing, focusing, and setting the exposure, but before actually clicking off the picture. It's that final moment of comfort and a short recap to see if all is in place before I click the image.
I've been using a tripod for several years now and what was important to me while selecting the perfect tripod was that it had to be light, not bulky, easy to set up and allow me a full 360° rotation of the camera. My selection fell on the Bilora Tripod from the German company, Kürbi Otto Tönnes GmbH. Considering that the first tripods produced in Radevormwald (Germany) appeared around 100 years ago with the name PERFEKT and today Kürbi Otto Tönnes GmbH produces the new range of tripods under the name of Perfect Pro told me a bit about their experience. What's more, call me biased, but the three little words "Made in Germany" have always attracted me in terms of quality and standards.
I've been using my Bilora Professional 1121 for the past 6 years now and recently had the opportunity to update the model to the Perfect Pro range (in German - but you can download the catalogue in English here). I went for the Aluminum A333 Multifunction model (in German), which is relatively light, gives improved stability, robustness and absorbs vibrations. I was delighted by the professional developed details and solutions offered and just how extraordinarily versatile it is. The special highlights are most definitely the removable monopod, the multi-purpose swivel-element for the center column and the two exchangeable ball heads (big and small). These ball heads were the real reason I initially chose the Bilora series and was extremely pleased that it was included in the Perfect Pro range. The ball head paired with the swivel-element allows me to pretty much shoot in an unlimited number of angels and positions without great effort or fiddling around.
It's a versatile tripod and can be used for all kinds of subjects - indoors and outdoors; the metal spike on the end of the legs gives a firm grip outdoors, whilst the rubber caps protect parquet and other delicate surfaces. Delivery of the tripod includes a carrying case, shoulder strap and a small column for those close to the floor frog view shots.
Amazon.de offers this tripod for about 205 € and it is worth the investment in every way.
The support team for Bilora is extremely helpful and answered all my questions, in English, promptly. If you have any questions and are considering investing in a new tripod, please contact them: firstname.lastname@example.com. I can most definitely vouch for the "Made in Germany" quality.
From Plate to Page Update
We've got some very HOT news to share with everyone. From Plate to Page is now sponsored by the fantastic and truly delicious Bord Bia – the Irish Food Board.
We are super excited about the prospect of working together with the wonderful people at Bord Bia on the From Plate to Page workshop in Weimar and introducing our participants to the rich diversity of Irish products available. Read all about our partnership with Bord Bia in our latest article It Takes Two.
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