Why no funeral cakes?

monster · 11-01-2015, 08:16 PM

You have BDM (births, deaths and marriages) suits and ties. Life is celebrated at all. Gifts are given at all (to the baby and fools, from the deceased), but we only have cake at births and marriages. Why not at funerals?

Cake or Death?

why not cake and death?

monster · 11-01-2015, 08:19 PM

no, grav&/or xob, not funnel cakes

sexobon · 11-01-2015, 08:40 PM

Cakes are associated with birthday celebrations and the dead won't be having anymore; so, maybe it's symbolic.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-01-2015, 08:46 PM

The birthday celebrant gets the cake and shares with everyone. The dead are selfish, so nobody gives them cake knowing there will be nothing coming back.

sexobon · 11-01-2015, 08:49 PM

If there was a cake with the deceased's picture on it, slicing into it would be like reenacting the autopsy.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-01-2015, 09:41 PM

If the cake was burnt, it would taste like the post cremation dear departed.

monster · 11-01-2015, 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

no, grav&/or xob, not funnel cakes

Griff!

monster · 11-01-2015, 10:13 PM

babies don't get to eat their cakes either. Except second hand if they're breast-fed

monster · 11-01-2015, 10:18 PM

Maybe they should make funeral cakes like christmas puddings, gallette des rois or king cakes with a little charm (a scythe or skull maybe) and whoever gets it inherits the lot?

monster · 11-01-2015, 10:19 PM

oh, They did have funeral cakes, apparently

sexobon · 11-01-2015, 10:43 PM

I suppose you could bring some angel food cake made with manna, you know, just in case.

monster · 11-01-2015, 10:44 PM

Death by Chocolate or Devil's Cake...

Undertoad · 11-01-2015, 10:55 PM

Around here the Jews sit Shiva and part of it is you bring food to the home of the family of the deceased. Around here it is often baked goods.

Aliantha · 11-01-2015, 11:40 PM

I had an order for a candle cake for a wake a while back.

Gravdigr · 11-02-2015, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

Why not at funerals?

Too hard to cry and eat cake at the same time?

11-01-2015, 08:16 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Why no funeral cakes? You have BDM (births, deaths and marriages) suits and ties. Life is celebrated at all. Gifts are given at all (to the baby and fools, from the deceased), but we only have cake at births and marriages. Why not at funerals? Cake or Death? why not cake and death? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-01-2015, 08:19 PM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	no, grav&/or xob, not funnel cakes __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-01-2015, 08:46 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The birthday celebrant gets the cake and shares with everyone. The dead are selfish, so nobody gives them cake knowing there will be nothing coming back. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-01-2015, 09:41 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	If the cake was burnt, it would taste like the post cremation dear departed. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-01-2015, 10:13 PM	#8
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	babies don't get to eat their cakes either. Except second hand if they're breast-fed __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-01-2015, 08:40 PM	#3
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	Cakes are associated with birthday celebrations and the dead won't be having anymore; so, maybe it's symbolic.

11-01-2015, 08:49 PM	#5
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	If there was a cake with the deceased's picture on it, slicing into it would be like reenacting the autopsy.

11-01-2015, 10:18 PM	#9
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Maybe they should make funeral cakes like christmas puddings, gallette des rois or king cakes with a little charm (a scythe or skull maybe) and whoever gets it inherits the lot? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-01-2015, 10:19 PM	#10
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	oh, They did have funeral cakes, apparently __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-01-2015, 10:43 PM	#11
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	I suppose you could bring some angel food cake made with manna, you know, just in case.

11-01-2015, 10:44 PM	#12
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Death by Chocolate or Devil's Cake... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-01-2015, 10:55 PM	#13
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Around here the Jews sit Shiva and part of it is you bring food to the home of the family of the deceased. Around here it is often baked goods.

11-01-2015, 11:40 PM	#14
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I had an order for a candle cake for a wake a while back. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

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