OMG. LMAO.

This is so funny I'm sitting here laughing out loud. Good thing I'm home alone.

Bwahahahahahaha! Harharharharhar!!

*holding my sides, whole body aching*

That...is...PRICELESS!! I hope that little brat thought of that every time he went to do something he knew he shouldn't be doing.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Ok trying to laugh quietly(Two kids napping). Too bad your mom didn't make that little brat think he was going to jail for plum poking.

Well the best part was that he had to go find his mother and explain his soaking wet pants. We ran into them on the other side of the store. His mom was at a loss as to why he would have wet his pants.

He wasn't fessing up, but just kept saying "I must of held it too long."

As soon as he saw my mom and I, he started bawling again. His mom had no idea what was going on, but I don't think it was a lesson he was going to forget anytime soon.

Stinkin Plum Poker!

That story is priceless!!!! He did deserve it for poking the produce. I'm surprised his mom didn't come looking for you, though.

My youngest poked holes in my practice cake for my first wedding - but he was only 18 mos. old. Now that they are older, my boys don't even come in the kitchen when I am working on a cake. Touch it & die is my motto!

Keep it up, ya'll, this thread is so funny!

I delivered a cake to a b-day party this past weekend with a dozen 8 year-olds and guess who is the one to poke the cake, the dad, while all of the little kids are screaming don't touch it!!!

I guess one way to keep people from poking your cakes is to invest in some clear sheets of plexi-glass to stand in front of them. I work for a houseboat company and we do houseboat shows every year and if there is a room we don't want people to go into we just cover the door with plexiglass. I'm sure there are plenty of DH's out there that would love a little handyman project.

My kids finally learned not to touch my cakes, either. I made a birthday cake for my daughter for a family party. I made it Thursday, the party was Sunday. I woke up Saturday morning, and the bow on top was missing little pieces here and there, the birthday girl herself (turning 5) had "tasted" it. At first I thought of fixing it, but i saw a lesson here. At the party, anyone who asked what happened was told, and they haven't touched a cake again since!! I just had a buttercream cake for my brother's birthday in the fridge overnight, this morning my kids tell me "we saw a cake in the fridge but we couldn't see it without touching, so could you show it to us?" i was so proud of them!! The question is, though, how to teach the KidDults...

LOL the Kiddults - unfortunately there are some kids MUCH more polite and well mannered than adults! SOme kids just get spoiled in life and they never grow up!

LOL also I've been thinking this in my head so I thought I'd share it here "you poke my dummy, I poke YOU dummy!" something to say when you poke the person back.... Maybe this is just tickling my funny bone and not anyone elses but I'm crackin' up here over that......

Oh, that is cute as heck! It made me chuckle! Of course, I have a weird sense of humor, so maybe we're both idiots!! Hahahah!

You could always have a sign :
Not responsible for personal injury caused by cake poking.
or you could have a shirt that says decorator can turn from nice to extremely mean in one poke of a cake.
This is just too funny. I thought one of the biggest problems was keeping animals out of the cakes.

I just remembered watching an episode of Emeril and Toba Garrett was there with a cake inside an acrylic case. I thought, "Wonder why she has that thing locked up tighter than Fort Knox?" and half a second later I realized it was so some moron didn't stick their finger in it and go, "I thought it was fake!"

Imagine, if you will, applying this logic to other things: Poking some woman in the boobies and gasping, "I thought they were fake!" (now that I think about it, that's what I should have done to the last woman who stuck her finger in one of my dummies )

LOL I would have LOVED to see the reaction to poking the woman in the boobies! "I thought they were fake" HA HA!!!!

You know those candy bowls or whatever that when you go to get candy some hand comes out and swats at you? (it's a halloween thing) - wouldn't it be great if you could make a mechanical cake thing that poked you back?! I'd LOVE to see that!!! Or one that talked when you got too close to it! "Please step away from the cake - you are to close to the cake - do NOT touch the cake or it will self destruct in your face and cover you with frosting!" LOL ROTF!!!!

I believe it was Gallagher who wanted a gun that shot STUPID signs at cars and when enough STUPID signs were accumulated, the cops pull them over and ticket them for being STUPID.

Personally, I believe that people should not be allowed to handle items that aren't thiers or they have no intention buying. I guess that's why I know retail is not my thing!

Thanks for the insight on the bowling alley cake. I am NEVER again eating a cake from a bowling alley. That's just nasty! In fact, I'm not eating or drinking ANYTHING from there! I think I can taste feet right now! YUCK!

I think a shirt that says "Touch my cake and I'll make you pee your pants" would be good!
This thread is cracking me up, I love this...

How about a sign that cashes in on what parents tell their kids about playing with matches...

"If you poke the cake you'll wet the bed!"

Oh wait... that almost sounds... well... not right...

I was thinking a fake bloody finger next to the display with a sign - "belongs to a cake poker"!!!

Oh, Man, these are all too funny. . I have another idea. Why don't we attach some kind of alarm system to the dummy cakes and when someone pokes them, sirens go off, lights start blinking and a metallic voice says increasing the volume every time it says it: Poker, poker, poker.....? Then a friend, husband, brother... comes out dressed as a policeman and says to the poker: I'm Officer Frosting and I'm from the Cake Poking Offenders Department. You have the right to remain silent, anything you poke can be used against you.... I bet we would see some wet pants too.

Inma

LOL you guys are just too funny, I'd love to see the faces confronting Officer Frosting

Ok, I have one. I made a 9x13 cake for a girl scout bridging ceremony. Half chocolate, half white. The first girls wanted chocolate, so that was cut first. Then one lady comes up to it, takes a fork, scrapes icing off the other side, tells her kid it's vanilla, does she want some, then asks in a loud voice "Is it ok to cut this side of the cake?"

I was tempted to tell her "no" just to find out what she'd do then. I mean, she had already scraped icing off!!! What IS it with people?

I might have been a little more sympathetic if the other side wasn't already cut.

Um weren't you standing there cutting the cake?? Couldn't she have ASKED if the other half was vanilla/white? HUH??? Why scrape icing off of it to tell???

I'm sorry, but the second her fork touched the cake I would have pointed and yelled, "Unclean, unclean!" That is so massively uncouth to act like that, and worse yet, she is teaching her children that you do this!! She should have said, "Excuse me, is there any flavor other than chocolate?" *shudder* I am sickened.

I knew a photographer once who's "signature sign" was to get a picture of a kid sticking his/her finger in the wedding cake. First of all, I didn't spend hours on the wedding cake just to have a kid stick his finger in it; secondly, the bride/groom spent hundreds of dollars on their cake....it's an insult to them!!!!!!!!! It's been years since I've heard of this photographer......but I hope she's out of business!!!!!!!