angieobsessed would like us all to know that microwaving butter in order to melt it is a crime against humanity.

This has been a public service announcement.

Cake Wrecks is a sweet blog that showcases the most horrible cakes ever brought to us by professional cake decorators. Usually, it includes horrible spelling, lopsided cakes and crap that looked like your three-year-old made it, but occasionally it will feature something insanely awesome like this amazingly awesome James-Bond-style wedding cake.

The other day, a cake was posted that depicted a giant insulin pen, with the following commentary:

( '...Sure, the person's foot will fall off if he or she eats it...' )

A diabetic takes the time to note that sugar actually isn't a big problem, and that it's more the carbs that they have to watch. And that they eat cake like normal people. People continue to post "OMG what were they thinking lol" comments until the innaccuracy has been explained umpteen times. From there the comments degenerate...

Some are insulted and enraged! Others say it was a JOKE, therefore it is impossible for anyone to be insulted by it ever! Many have very little knowledge about diabetes in general (terrifyingly, some of them seem to be parents of diabetics.) There's a lot of talk about whether pre-diabetes exists or whether it's just doctor-speak for "fatty mcfatfat." Health nuts weigh in with their crazy advice (STOP EATING, IT CAUSES CANCER!) Other diabetics weigh in claiming they found it funny, therefore everyone else must have done, too!

The wank carries on for a few hundred comments, until the blogger's husband (g-buh??) closes the comments and "for-shames" the lot. Apparently, she's so hurt by the OMG!fighting that she can't post it herself:


( '...Any new comments left here will be deleted unread to preserve the sanity of my wife...' )

So, not only does the "lol no foot!" comment not warrant any sort of ETA admitting that DIABETES DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, but people providing her with correct advice actually renders her incapable of sanity. I seeeeeee.

ETA: BAHLEETED! Overprotective husband is creepily overprotective. (Alternatively, sensitive blogger is waaay too sensitive.) white_serpent provides some caps of the original post. No comments, though.

Over in cooking, health-conscious user changeopresto has a bone to pick. You see, the United States is currently being ravaged by an obesity epidemic, and she has made it her personal mission to change that. Thus, she humbly requests that all "non-healthy" recipes be placed behind a cut.

Other users quickly point out that she is in a general cooking community that accepts all types of recipes, and that it can be hard to objectively define what is and isn't healthy. And of course, she is not a mod and should just use the scroll button.

The wank takes a turn for the truly bizarre in that last thread. ladyartemisa points out that what is healthy varies from person to person - for example, her husband has hypertension and must cut down on salt, while she is pregnant with low blood pressure and must load up on salt.

changeopresto is confused. "Ok well I don't know what doctor is prescribing a low salt diet for hypertension. I thought they gave people riddalin for that."

obfuscate brings the snark which immediately leads to changeopresto uttering the comment of a million lulz. Protip: The 'H' is ADHD does not stand for hypertension.

Bonus lulz: Pastry is not real. Also, butter.

400+ comments, so there's plenty more wank to be found. And of course, changeopresto edits the original post with the mandatory, "GET A LIFE PEOPLE!!!"

ETA: If you find something through otf_wank you really should resist replying.

Over in hp_britglish, schemingreader makes the mistake of asking what the stuff you spread on top of a cake is called. Hint: It ain't "frosting".

oncelikeshari thinks that butter icing is evil and wrong and should be stopped, or that it doesn't exist. I'm not entirely sure.

Either way, I want cake. :(

Short, but sweet.