So yesterday for the first time I went to Paul’s in Iowa City, which is like, some sort of awesome megastore or something. I always just thought of it as just a farm store, but I was in search of some alcohol (the rubbing kind) so I figured they would have it there. I went in a looked for my stuff and found it, but I couldn’t leave without checking out a little more of the store…
So along the back wall they have the discounted marked down stuff. And I happened upon this Wilton cake pan. And so I took this picture with my cell phone cam to share with you guys. Now, I’ve never really been one for baking special shaped cakes for different occasions; I would rather get a rectangle-shaped cake from Hy-Vee or Yummy’s Gourmet Cakes and just have them make it awesome tasting, which they do. Whatever… so anyways, this cake pan caught my eye. It is in the shape of a graduate holding something, like a scroll-shaped diploma or something, which, I’ve never seen a diploma like that before, but whatever.
But then I noticed this part, which was really intriguing… “Great for Female Grads and Male Grads”. What other kind of grads does that leave? Maybe some sort of transgendered graduates? Does Wilton have a special pan for them? Or do they simply not get the specialized graduation cake?
Well, even if they were transgendered, they would have self-identified most likely with one gender or the other, but still that is LOL funny!!!
Chris~
I am so glad that you keep us abreast of the random ridiculousness that you encounter in your daily life. I think I need to start being more observant and rekindle my childlike curiosity. Keep up the good work!
BTW, you guys need to update your About Us page.
Booo for the non-equal opportunity cakepan….
They say nothing about race either, I saw two white looking grads there…what about hispanics? african americans? chinese?
I guess they don’t get a special cake either.
Seriously, though…if you wanted to make it work I guess you could just make it an ambiguously gendered grad…I mean, if it can be male or female you could probably make it both!
I did get a chuckle out of your observation!
This really is grandpa,
What about the seeing eye dog of the graduate?