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There is no Engrish Fail right here. Do your research first. A king cake has a plastic baby hidden inside it.
Another fine example of Submitter = FAIL
Although technically accurate, it is still worded in a funny way. Having grown up in Louisiana, I knew exactly what they were talking about, but it still made me giggle.
Actually, the baby would be ceramic or porcelain, since it’s baked inside the cake. If you find the baby in the King Cake, you’re supposed to have good luck all year.
I went to a Mardi Gras party down in Pensacola with some friends of my mom’s. They had a twist on the baby: If you find the baby, you have to host next year’s party.
We have similar traditions in both my home countries: In some parts of Germany there were a medieval custom during carnival of putting a dry pea into a cake, the one who found it was crowned king of the feast, I think it was quite popular in Europe and it may have been exported to Louisiana by the French.
In Spain the tradition is still alive: during the Epiphany a cake is served with little figures inside, in the past there was only one but nowadays there is one that is golden and several other small presents (ceramic or plastic mostly). The one who finds the golden one has to pay the cake or pay the drinks.
How is this Engrish?
It’s talking about a plastic baby Jesus. This isn’t Engrish at all.
The people at Engrish have apparently never really celebrated mardi gras.
Not really Engrish. There really IS a little plastic baby trinket with / in the cake. Read about King Cakes.
Preferably in Cake Wrecks.
http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2011/3/7/king-me.html
You’ll never look at Mardi Gras the same way again.
Sometimes context ruins everything.
Are you kidding me? That Is not engrish, King Cakes traditionally have plastic babies inside of them to symbolize baby jesus. Submissions must have really slowed, between this and the “she blew you off” post Im convinced theyre posting whatever they get. I found some EPIC engrish at the Chicago Auto Show so ill post that as a sort of stimulus package.
A lot of the country doesn’t know much about mardi gras. I found a baby jesus the hard way after my office received one of these as a gift from a client. Everyone was a bit surprised that there was a dead baby in the pastry and started looking for more objects.
I honestly wouldn’t of knew it wasn’t Engrish. We don’t have King Cakes in Philly. We just party and eat New Orleans-style stuff.
King cakes exist in Philly..
Fat Bastard dinna care about Mardi Gras, ye silleh trolls. Baby, git in mah belleh!
♫ I don’t care if rains or freezes……… ♫
long’s I got my plastic…baby.
I’m from Louisiana. I’ve celebrated Mardi Gras all my life. I’ve seen this box about a thousand times. I’m even eating king cake right now. I’ve read that before and laughed. It sounds so weird, though. I know it’s a plastic baby but come on, that is funny
Katrina was funny too.
^ ^ Obviously trolling.
@Patrick: Actually, the baby is *plastic*. I live in the New Orleans area. They don’t bake them inside the cake. They insert them after it has baked and cooled. Porcelain is too fragile and expensive to use nowadays. The king cake bakeries that give them out usually do it as a collector’s item and bag them separately while including the plastic baby in the cake, as well.
I’m from the wet NW and even I know about this. Sounds like folks need to read a bit more.