Hey everyone, Husband Mic here and I'm starting a new acronym for the weekend: TGISCNF!! Thank God It's Silly Cake News Friday!! Learn it, love it, live it. On to the news!
First slice goes "down under" to those wacky Aussies and a Flugtag team known as "Team Bridezilla." For those of you uniniated in the world of Flugtag, it is a competition of flight where contestants create wildly themed uh... planes I guess you'd call them, and then hurl themselves off the end of a pier into the water hoping against all odds they can fly. Seriously, if you can go about 30 feet, you'll probably win! Most of the crazy contraptions plunge directly into the drink. In recent years, it is an event run by Red Bull, but I recall Flugtag type events in my hometown of San Francisco going back decades. To compete, Team Bridezilla has constructed a wedding cake with wings!! Their $1500 design is mostly wood with what looks like some decorative "frosting" fabric. Team leader Peter Chan will accompany the cake off the six meter high pier into Sydney Harbor with three rather hairy Bridezillas chasing him. Insert "taking the plunge" joke here;)
Our second slice today goes to the realization of a childhood dream. I can still remember what it meant to me as a young boy when the Japanese animated TV show Robotech came on the air. It changed everything, showing how cartoons could have depth and story beyond the ad campaigns that things like He-Man and Transformers were. I loved it, and in one episode there was a wedding and that wedding had a giant cake shaped like the show's flying fortress, the SDF-1.
Enter the combined forces of a Sega manager and his Bandai executive wife and you get two fans that have the power to make this cartoon cake real! I can't believe I didn't think of this when Reva and I tied the knot. Behold the transformational power of the Macross Cake!!
Let's keep it nerdy with our third slice and a little bit of Star Trek cake news. One couple took their love for The Next Generation Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard and turned it into cake! Unfortunately the article doesn't say who made the bust shaped cake of Picard, but damn it is lifelike! It is almost like Patrick Stewart was at the wedding! Nice work. Hey, anyone else interested in knowing if when the groom asked his bride-to-be for her hand if he simply said "enagage." Interesting sidenote: when choosing my "French name" for French class in high school, I went with Jean-Luc. Thank you Star Trek.
And our final slice for the week comes to us all the way from 1962! Have you ever asked yourself, "how can I get ahold of a piece of presidential history while at the same time posess a nearly 50 year old cake decoration?" Your dreams have been answered as an auction in Dallas later this month will have a cake decoration from John F. Kennedy's birthday party up on the block! Now, while this is an interesting find in the closet of the man who took it home (best quote of the story when he asked if he could have it, "that's between you and the garbage."), what really makes it unique and historical is that this decorative formerly edible Presidential Seal was on the giant cake wheeled into Madison Square Garden the night Marilyn Monroe performed her infamous "Happy Birthday Mr. President!!"
God I love the internet, there's the cake!! And you can actually see the Seal decoration on the left near that flashing camera. And there's JFK! Amazing stuff. The auction is November 17th, so with a starting bid of around $5,000, I better pick out my display frame for when I win it;) Hail to the sugar!
Today's Topper: When the ancient Slavic people baked their babka cakes, they believed there had to be absolutely no noise while it baked, not even a whisper.
That's all we got for Silly Cake News this week my friends. Happy TGISCNF!!
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