Celebrating spring flowers, or the conception of a child?
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If it was conception, they would be on the outside trying to get in.
Party balloons?
Hatching snakes.
I’m guessing it’s supposed to be the other way around and be balloons, like Catlover suggested, but I’m also willing to consider that this is an onion cookie.
Lord Flatulence: artistic license, maybe?
ianosmond: “onion cookie”? THAT sounds nasty.
The sticker says that it’s a party cookie.
Do they have conception parties?
Strings tied to balloons should be pretty much straight, unless
the balloons are lying on the floor, which isn’t very festive.
I don’t know what it *is* supposed to be, but balloons doesn’t
seem reasonable to me.
Do they have “your flowers are blooming” parties?
Do they have “Your worm’s first lemon” parties?
I’d go to that party.
Look, it has to be balloons. A supermarket employee working in the bakery(*) is not going to decorate something obscene and then put it in the rack for any customer to find.
P.S. (*) Even an incompetent one, as this one certainly was.
@Rob W
“Do they have conception parties?”
You mean, you don’t? OK, technically they’re just parties – but rather good ones. :P
A problem of scale ? Between gametes and balloons, they could be tadpoles.
It’s just a cookie with frosting on it.
It’s obviously supposed to be balloons. The rippled strings aren’t correct according to physics but they’re used to imply motion. Very very common in cake decorating and other simple illustrations.
That’s how the sketch would work.
Customer: “Is my cake ready?”
Baker displays cake with balloons up.
Baker: “Yes, it’s a lovely celebration of spring flowers.”
Customer: “But it’s for a fertility party.”
Baker spins the cake around 180 degrees.
Customer: “Oh, perfect.”
If you guys read CakeWrecks, you’d know they’re balloons. Spermalloons are a regular feature.
Thanks to Chak, I have been introduced to the term “Wreckerator”.
The wrecks are Monday – Saturday, but if you want eye-poppingly gorgeous, try it on Sunday. Wow.
Is a “conception party” an orgy?
“Is a ‘conception party’ an orgy?”
Not necessarily. Perhaps your partygoers simply like to watch.
Maybe a cross-section representation of sperm trying to get OUT OF a condom? “Let’s celebrate, honey, I’m not pregnant after all!”
And @Arthur, I’m not expert on the subject, but I don’t think conception is the goal at an orgy.
@Kilby, it’s all about deniability: “What? Those are BALLOONS! What’s wrong with you to suggest they’re anything else?”
” I don’t think conception is the goal at an orgy.”
You run your orgy your way, and I’ll run mine my way.
I want all my child-support payments to end the same month…
It’s for a paternity party. 5 men are all denying they’re the father. One will lose.
“It’s for a paternity party. 5 men are all denying they’re the father. One will lose.”
Assumes facts not in evidence.
As a former supermarket cake decorator, I can confirm that those are supposed to be balloons. However, green was an odd color choice for the strings. If I were to take a guess, I’d say they were originally going to be flower buds & the decorator couldn’t find the leaf tip for the icing bag.
By the way, you ever see baked goods with two inches of icing? Chances are good the cake/cookie was underweight; I can’t tell you how many times I had to put four ounces of frosting on eight ounces of cupcakes to bring them up to the twelve ounce stated weight on the label.
Is icing cheaper than cake batter?
Even if it’s not, once the cake is made, adding batter to make up the weight is no longer an option.
That’s JUST what the batterluminati want you to think. Wake up, sheeple!
@Bill, LOL! That’s not what I meant. I seems that if the cupcakes consistently come out too light, there’s an easy fix for that, so if it’s not happening, then perhaps it’s a cost thing. Or an incompetence thing.
Well, if they CONSISTENTLY com out too light, then maybe you should learn how to make cupcakes. As a quick fix, though, I can see how slathering one extra icing would make sense.
What this does call to mind, though, was the class action lawsuit a few years ago claiming that Subways’s foot-long heroes were half an inch too short (yeah, that happened). Based on the icing idea, I wonder whether Subways could have solved the problem by telling their workers to let the tomato protrude a quarter inch on each side. Nobody claimed the BREAD was a foot long.
Of course… for all I now that WAS the original justification for calling the heroes foot-long.
The sandwich is one-foot long and the store is opened 24/7…
But just to confuse everybody, most 7-Eleven stores ARE open 24/7.
There was a bakery near me that sold “Mile-High Apple Pie”. They even put that on their big sign in front of the store: “Home of the Mile-High Apple Pie.”
I guess I know why they’re shut down now. Someone must have bought one, held a ruler next to it and sued.
Or the cops figured out their secret ingredient.
At the local (Minnesota) State Fair, I notice that all of the “foot long hot dog” stands have “about a” in small lettering above the word “foot long,” obviously to stave off possible nuisance law suits. But at least one stand is named “Mile-Long Hot Dogs,” and apparently feels no need to modify that claim; presumably the overstatement is assumed to be for humorous effect etc.
Back in the 1950s, there was a L’IL ABNER plot which involved someone (General Bullmoose, maybe) promising a new invention that would sweep the world; after a couple of weeks of hints it was revealed as an “Endless Hot Dog Machine” — as I recall, the hot dog kept extruding, and one just cut off at whatever point one chose. I don’t remember how pricing was handled, but I assume there was a yardstick or something brought into play.
Bill – when 7-11 first opened near where I lived with my parents, it was not open 24 hours a day. It opened early (for stores back then) at 7am and closed late (again for back then) at, yes, 11 pm, hence the 7-11 (see, with the line between them it is 7 to 11 – and they did not mean that they were open only 4 hours). I still remember my dad explaining this to me when one opened on the other side of town.
And that also explains why their doors have locks. (Yes, I know they need to be able to lock the doors for security purposes and when they go out of business between owners.)
Yup, how they got their name: making them perhaps the only corporation that exceeds its claims.
Where we used to live, there was a 24/7 food market. Other than during the winter months, they never closed. And they had no doors. Not even proper walls, actually.
I always wondered what they’d do if they did have to close — and then, 1999 I think, came the hurricane. They actually brought trucks to evacuate all the merchandise.
(I think they just left the trucks parked outside the location; not sure, because at the time I was more concerned with our flooded basement)
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If it was conception, they would be on the outside trying to get in.
Party balloons?
Hatching snakes.
I’m guessing it’s supposed to be the other way around and be balloons, like Catlover suggested, but I’m also willing to consider that this is an onion cookie.
Lord Flatulence: artistic license, maybe?
ianosmond: “onion cookie”? THAT sounds nasty.
The sticker says that it’s a party cookie.
Do they have conception parties?
Strings tied to balloons should be pretty much straight, unless
the balloons are lying on the floor, which isn’t very festive.
I don’t know what it *is* supposed to be, but balloons doesn’t
seem reasonable to me.
Do they have “your flowers are blooming” parties?
Do they have “Your worm’s first lemon” parties?
I’d go to that party.
Look, it has to be balloons. A supermarket employee working in the bakery(*) is not going to decorate something obscene and then put it in the rack for any customer to find.
P.S. (*) Even an incompetent one, as this one certainly was.
@Rob W
“Do they have conception parties?”
You mean, you don’t? OK, technically they’re just parties – but rather good ones. :P
A problem of scale ? Between gametes and balloons, they could be tadpoles.
It’s just a cookie with frosting on it.
It’s obviously supposed to be balloons. The rippled strings aren’t correct according to physics but they’re used to imply motion. Very very common in cake decorating and other simple illustrations.
That’s how the sketch would work.
Customer: “Is my cake ready?”
Baker displays cake with balloons up.
Baker: “Yes, it’s a lovely celebration of spring flowers.”
Customer: “But it’s for a fertility party.”
Baker spins the cake around 180 degrees.
Customer: “Oh, perfect.”
If you guys read CakeWrecks, you’d know they’re balloons. Spermalloons are a regular feature.
Thanks to Chak, I have been introduced to the term “Wreckerator”.
The wrecks are Monday – Saturday, but if you want eye-poppingly gorgeous, try it on Sunday. Wow.
Is a “conception party” an orgy?
“Is a ‘conception party’ an orgy?”
Not necessarily. Perhaps your partygoers simply like to watch.
Maybe a cross-section representation of sperm trying to get OUT OF a condom? “Let’s celebrate, honey, I’m not pregnant after all!”
And @Arthur, I’m not expert on the subject, but I don’t think conception is the goal at an orgy.
@Kilby, it’s all about deniability: “What? Those are BALLOONS! What’s wrong with you to suggest they’re anything else?”
” I don’t think conception is the goal at an orgy.”
You run your orgy your way, and I’ll run mine my way.
I want all my child-support payments to end the same month…
It’s for a paternity party. 5 men are all denying they’re the father. One will lose.
“It’s for a paternity party. 5 men are all denying they’re the father. One will lose.”
Assumes facts not in evidence.
As a former supermarket cake decorator, I can confirm that those are supposed to be balloons. However, green was an odd color choice for the strings. If I were to take a guess, I’d say they were originally going to be flower buds & the decorator couldn’t find the leaf tip for the icing bag.
By the way, you ever see baked goods with two inches of icing? Chances are good the cake/cookie was underweight; I can’t tell you how many times I had to put four ounces of frosting on eight ounces of cupcakes to bring them up to the twelve ounce stated weight on the label.
Is icing cheaper than cake batter?
Even if it’s not, once the cake is made, adding batter to make up the weight is no longer an option.
That’s JUST what the batterluminati want you to think. Wake up, sheeple!
@Bill, LOL! That’s not what I meant. I seems that if the cupcakes consistently come out too light, there’s an easy fix for that, so if it’s not happening, then perhaps it’s a cost thing. Or an incompetence thing.
Well, if they CONSISTENTLY com out too light, then maybe you should learn how to make cupcakes. As a quick fix, though, I can see how slathering one extra icing would make sense.
What this does call to mind, though, was the class action lawsuit a few years ago claiming that Subways’s foot-long heroes were half an inch too short (yeah, that happened). Based on the icing idea, I wonder whether Subways could have solved the problem by telling their workers to let the tomato protrude a quarter inch on each side. Nobody claimed the BREAD was a foot long.
Of course… for all I now that WAS the original justification for calling the heroes foot-long.
The sandwich is one-foot long and the store is opened 24/7…
But just to confuse everybody, most 7-Eleven stores ARE open 24/7.
There was a bakery near me that sold “Mile-High Apple Pie”. They even put that on their big sign in front of the store: “Home of the Mile-High Apple Pie.”
I guess I know why they’re shut down now. Someone must have bought one, held a ruler next to it and sued.
Or the cops figured out their secret ingredient.
At the local (Minnesota) State Fair, I notice that all of the “foot long hot dog” stands have “about a” in small lettering above the word “foot long,” obviously to stave off possible nuisance law suits. But at least one stand is named “Mile-Long Hot Dogs,” and apparently feels no need to modify that claim; presumably the overstatement is assumed to be for humorous effect etc.
Back in the 1950s, there was a L’IL ABNER plot which involved someone (General Bullmoose, maybe) promising a new invention that would sweep the world; after a couple of weeks of hints it was revealed as an “Endless Hot Dog Machine” — as I recall, the hot dog kept extruding, and one just cut off at whatever point one chose. I don’t remember how pricing was handled, but I assume there was a yardstick or something brought into play.
Bill – when 7-11 first opened near where I lived with my parents, it was not open 24 hours a day. It opened early (for stores back then) at 7am and closed late (again for back then) at, yes, 11 pm, hence the 7-11 (see, with the line between them it is 7 to 11 – and they did not mean that they were open only 4 hours). I still remember my dad explaining this to me when one opened on the other side of town.
And that also explains why their doors have locks. (Yes, I know they need to be able to lock the doors for security purposes and when they go out of business between owners.)
Yup, how they got their name: making them perhaps the only corporation that exceeds its claims.
Where we used to live, there was a 24/7 food market. Other than during the winter months, they never closed. And they had no doors. Not even proper walls, actually.
I always wondered what they’d do if they did have to close — and then, 1999 I think, came the hurricane. They actually brought trucks to evacuate all the merchandise.
(I think they just left the trucks parked outside the location; not sure, because at the time I was more concerned with our flooded basement)