Yesterday, for the 100th anniversary celebration of Wrigley Field, A 5-foot by 5-foot, 400-pound cake made in the form of Wrigley Field was unveiled. It was made by Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken, N.J., the setting of the reality show “Cake Boss.” It was pretty cool.
Now it sits in a dumpster at the Field Museum, uneaten. Pictures of it can be seen at the link. Then the Cubs issued a statement:
“The Chicago Cubs are disappointed in how our Wrigley Field display cake was disposed by the Field Museum following our successful charity event. The team made a decision not to serve the edible portion after the cake was on display outside Wrigley Field for most of the day. Though the cake was mostly made up of non-edible material, it certainly does not excuse how a celebratory cake artfully created by Buddy Valastro and Carlo’s Bakery was handled.”
Spare me, Cubs. If you commission a large, largely non-edible cake and keep it outside all day and decide not to feed it to people, what exactly are the folks you stick with it at the end of the day supposed to do? Keep it forever? Rent a storage unit?
(via Deadspin)
