To think this cake is inappropriate

I was obsessed with the Russian Romanovs, one in particular. Doesn't mean it would have been appropriate to bake me a cake of the 'basement scene'.

@Strawberryfieldsfornever

why is there a fish on a hook after your post.

I work with young people and one would absolutely love this cake!
He is obsessed with all things titanic but he’s not 5 so it can’t be him.

One of them also loves all things war and would absolutely have a cake with tanks and weapons on.

Yes people died but they weren’t murdered, this was a historical event which many people are very interested in.

Omg I've seen it all now

I googled titanic cakes and the cake you’ve shown was made by a company and the comments about it were posted 3 years ago. 😏🧐

I have a similar feeling about this cake as I do about the person I know who sent her daughter to school dressed as Anne Frank on World Book Day.

It’s definitely unusual for a child’s cake but I have met more than one child who had a real special interest in the titanic. In fact I know a 6 year old boy who has a titanic water bottle for school and builds titanics in various positions out of Lego most days. Knows all the facts about it. He would LOVE that cake.

@NightmareSlashDelightful I'm so sorry. I remember watching footage of Grenfell and it haunted me for weeks. Actually losing someone you know in a fire like that is 50 shades of horrifying.

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Well, the tragedy has already been used for entertainment.

It's great baking/icing skills but the subject matter is questionable.

Maybe a bit hijacking. But I thought this was inappropriate. Glitter made a lot of people very unhappy. I would not like to see this on a child.

But that’s exactly why it would be wholly inappropriate to make a Grenfell Tower cake at any time in the future. People died and it would be so disrespectful, to their memories, to their families, to their friends. This is what OP was trying to demonstrate.

I don't think it's that bad, assuming the child has a special interest. I think it would have been better not to have it sinking though.

DD1 loved cats so she had lots of cat cakes. I remember the one she requested to be a cat sitting up. Dh did it. It looked like a dalek until he iced it.
Dd2 liked dancing so we had a dancing star etc.
Ds at similar age was obsessed with the Bismark. No, we didn't do him a cake with one one but he'd probably have loved it-except he might have objected to the idea of anyone eating it. He'd probably have preferred one with the Fairey Swordfish that sank it though. He loved those planes.

This!!! I cant imagine another country dressing up as their invaders as a laugh. I can’t imagine the Greeks going around dressing up for lols as Turks or Italians or any other recent country that’s been invaded. I’ve always thought it’s odd.

One of the other (many) titanic cakes coming up on google has people drowning and a few hanging off the ship, good grief.

Same

Isn’t that OP’s point. Of course it is tactless, as is a cake depicting the Titanic sinking.

It's a bit odd, but we live in a world where pirates and Vikings are often glorified as amusing or thrilling adventurers. How many innocents were robbed, raped, or murdered at their hands? Will terrorists someday be seen in the same sanitised light as old-timey pirates?

@R0ca75

If you are offended by my referring (badly albeit) to a certain group of people then it's safe to assume you are not part of said group. I made a mistake, apologised good knows how many times, I don't know what else I can do.

Is it wrong that the disaster was used as the background for entertainment in a cheesy love story? The cake is no more inappropriate than that.

I assume that I'm the 'autism mum' that you are referring to (what a nasty, sneering ableist comment by the way). If you think that me plonking a model ship on top of a cake to make a lonely, confused, disabled little boy happy during lockdown is offensive then maybe you are the 'batshit' one.

Like I said, I got it wrong. Please can you maybe accept that, and my apology?

@thedancingbear

when called out on it, tried to make out that others had the problem because they didn't understand sarcasm.

What I actually said was I got it wrong. I was meaning it sarcastic but I got it wrong. I also apologised for that, how many more times do you think it would be reasonable to 'call me out' before it becomes a bigger problem?

I posted and didn't read the room well or explain what I meant but when I acknowledged this and apologised that should have been it.

But where are the "autism mums" on this thread that need calling out?

There was no mention that the cake was for an autistic child. Two posters said their autistic child may have had obsessions with titanic or disasters, but there were loads more posters who said the same about their NT child, or that they themselves had obsessions as children.

But hey let's blame autism mums for not parenting correctly, irrelevant to this thread though it may be.