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08/08/2003 12:33:52 PM · #1 |
Your local village fair is having a cake-baking competition.
You go to your nearest supermarket and buy the nicest looking cake you can.
You have bought the cake. It is yours. Legally, you own the cake.
You put some extra sprinkles on it for added decoration, maybe put on some whipped creme for extra taste.
You then enter this cake into the competition at the fair.
One of the judges prooves the cake has been bought from the supermarket, and sure enough, it has. It looks slightly different due to the whipped cream and sprinkles, but you didn't make it.
That cake is then disqualified from the competition, and eaten by the judges, who find it very tasty.
Message edited by author 2003-08-08 12:34:31.
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08/08/2003 12:36:15 PM · #2 |
| So if i buy a ckae at my local grocery store, my photos will be disqualified??? |
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08/08/2003 12:47:52 PM · #3 |
only if you manage to upload your cake to the internet and try to pass it off as your digital photo.
Message edited by author 2003-08-08 12:48:10.
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08/08/2003 12:51:33 PM · #4 |
| But what if its a lemon cake? |
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08/08/2003 01:03:26 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Niten:
But what if its a lemon cake? |
I think if you can upload it as a file that is less than 150K with no spot editing, and it still tastes good after being compressed 70%, then a decision will be made based on how moist it is and what kind of sprinkles you used, whether or not it is legal.
Please direct all cake uploads to my attention. And maybe a beef and cheddar from Arby's too if anyone is headed that way.
Bob
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08/08/2003 01:08:34 PM · #6 |
What if it's, like, a Chelsea Bun?
Ed
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08/08/2003 02:07:49 PM · #7 |
Please...have your cake and vote on it too!
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08/08/2003 02:18:12 PM · #8 |
Cake-uploading requires a higher speed internet connection than I have - by the time I could get it uploaded, it would be all dried out and crusty.
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08/08/2003 02:21:54 PM · #9 |
I think, using your cake analogy, the other argument is:
You make a cake from scratch. You then decorate it with a package of sugar roses you bought at the store as well as packaged icing you yourself form into the shape of words. The judges have said that any kind of decoration is okay for this contest.
The cake is yours. The decoration is partly someone else's, but you did place it the way you wanted to. The judges are almost certainly going to judge it "your" cake. |
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08/08/2003 02:25:19 PM · #10 |
Another story:
Your local village fair is having a cake-baking competition.
You go to the supermarket, buy the necessary ingredients and bake a cake.
You put some extra sprinkles on it for added decoration, maybe put on some whipped creme for extra taste.
You then enter this cake into the competition at the fair.
One of the judges proves although you bakes the cake, the whipped cream that you used was borrowed from your neighbor.
That cake is then disqualified from the competition, and eaten by the judges, who find it very tasty.
Is this really what the judges had in mind?
-Terry
Message edited by author 2003-08-08 14:26:08.
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08/08/2003 07:21:28 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Another story:
Your local village fair is having a cake-baking competition.
You go to the supermarket, buy the necessary ingredients and bake a cake.
You put some extra sprinkles on it for added decoration, maybe put on some whipped creme for extra taste.
You then enter this cake into the competition at the fair.
One of the judges proves although you bakes the cake, the whipped cream that you used was borrowed from your neighbor.
That cake is then disqualified from the competition, and eaten by the judges, who find it very tasty.
Is this really what the judges had in mind?
-Terry |
Not to mention you neither grew nor ground the grain, smelted the ore to make the pans, and probably didn't drill for the natural gas with which you heat your oven.
Interestingly, the cake I got for Isaac's 3rd birthday was a plain store-bought sheet cake, with an edible inkjet digital art image we applied at home. |
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08/08/2003 07:38:49 PM · #12 |
The rules of the cake baking competition didnt say you had to grow your own grain etc :P
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08/08/2003 08:05:02 PM · #13 |
| LET THEM EAT CAKE!!!..... |
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08/08/2003 08:45:33 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by inspzil:
I think if you can upload it as a file that is less than 150K with no spot editing, and it still tastes good after being compressed 70%, then a decision will be made based on how moist it is and what kind of sprinkles you used, whether or not it is legal. |
I believe sprinkles and just some whipped creme would constitute spot editing. If you apply your whipped creme and sprinkles to the entire cake, then it would be acceptable.
God help the county fair if DPC members are ever put in charge of the cake-baking competition... |
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08/08/2003 08:51:12 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
One of the judges proves although you bakes the cake, the whipped cream that you used was borrowed from your neighbor. |
Was the whipped creme borrowed, with your neighbor's knowledge and consent, or was it used without their knowledge, or even stolen from their refrigerator? I mean, c'mon, what's a little whipped creme? It'll be covered with sprinkles and they'll never even know it's gone.
And, unfortunately, it seems the judges never come out and clarify what they had in mind, sparking chaos and a wild, cake flinging, melee in which the contestants, spectators and judges all get soiled, not to mention having their egos and feelings hurt. |
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08/08/2003 11:39:53 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by ScottK:
Originally posted by inspzil:
I think if you can upload it as a file that is less than 150K with no spot editing, and it still tastes good after being compressed 70%, then a decision will be made based on how moist it is and what kind of sprinkles you used, whether or not it is legal. |
I believe sprinkles and just some whipped creme would constitute spot editing. If you apply your whipped creme and sprinkles to the entire cake, then it would be acceptable.
God help the county fair if DPC members are ever put in charge of the cake-baking competition... |
LOL...how very true!
Doesn't meet the contest would be the issue cause it would be a chocolate cake and the judge wanted a white cake. |
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08/09/2003 12:23:47 AM · #17 |
Does anyone have any ice-cream to go with all this cake?? YUM!!!! :)
Message edited by author 2003-08-09 00:24:40. |
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08/09/2003 12:35:37 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by Konador:
The rules of the cake baking competition didnt say you had to grow your own grain etc :P |
As the photo competition did not specify that you had to make your own camera.
Also... if the judges like the cake, they can sell it on DPCPrints regardless... :) |
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08/09/2003 02:20:08 AM · #19 |
This is by far the most entertaining thread I've ever read :-))))
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08/09/2003 04:02:06 AM · #20 |
The way I see it...the main issues are : Spot editing with sprinkles and if I'm not mistaken...all cakes mentioned above were baked outside the time frame of the contest. How do I know this ? Well, I've never bought what I would say is a REALLY fresh baked cake. They are always kinda dry. So as a judge/voter, I say...check the date ! Recall !
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08/09/2003 05:33:48 AM · #21 |
Okay, I was eating some cake and thought of these 2 things.
What if you didn't have a very big pan and you actually made the cake, but it was very very small. Each of the judges would get just a spot of cake, enough to get a little taste, but not enough to make a fair decision.
What if while the cake was cooling after you baked it, maggots somehow got on the cake and ate a little spot of it. You pull them all off(hopefully) and fill that spot with a little extra frosting hoping no one will notice. But if the judges found out that there were maggots on it at one time, you'd probably get yourself drawn and quartered in the middle of town for feeding them maggot cake.
Glad I wrote this AFTER I ate the cake. Maggot cake sounds less than appetizing.
Bob
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08/09/2003 08:13:34 AM · #22 |
If you use Photoshop to make your cake, is it a LAYER cake? :)
(sorry. I'll go back in my hole.)
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08/09/2003 08:51:26 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by conceptgraphics:
If you use Photoshop to make your cake, is it a LAYER cake? :)
(sorry. I'll go back in my hole.) |
ROFL! |
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08/10/2003 12:58:54 AM · #24 |
| For this competition, I took my own photo, didn't even use Photoshop. Also, by the way, I make a mean cheesecake ...from scratch. O.K., thanks you guys, you've blown my diet! |
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08/10/2003 01:32:47 AM · #25 |
| I've always been weak at generating genoise, and you could bury my Bundts, but I've flipped a mean flapjack since I was about three. Would a panCAKE (with maple syrup) have qualified? |
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