To think there's a limit to 'it's your money you can spend it how you like'

[JeffsanArsehole]

We're always saying it on Mumsnet when folk spunk thousands on a car or a bag and if anyone's slightly critical we always point out that it boosts the economy and is there any chance they're 'jealous' etc etc

Well I've reached my limit of saying spend your money how you like and I am feeling disgusted and critical of a UAE wealthy Arab family spending 50 million quid on a cake.

I think that's grotesque and obscene. Really, really so.

[AntiqueSinger]

Its very 'Emperor's New Clothes' if you ask me.

But I actually feel that's it's immoral to squander money of that value on something that will be eaten and excreted in the toilet, when even a quarter of it has a great deal of power to help and make a difference in people's lives. You can argue that it's their moneyto spend as they like, and it is; however, for me its smacks of something akin to gluttony - not quite - but it is at the very least crass vanity. If being miserly is an ugly quality then so is the extreme opposite of the spectrum.

[Rufusgy]

50 mill is just made up anyway. They paid a few grand for a cake. Then stuck diamonds on it.

[Rufusgy]

The detail is pretty shit. Rough edges. I wouldn't accept that detail from a 50 quid cake shop .

Looks like it was made for some vapid model wannabe.

[differentnameforthis]

It's not even that good....

[OstentatiousBreastfeeder]

Those figures are hideous.

[StealthPolarBear]

No he made them for family and friends and I know nothing! Other than he spent days on Rose petals for my wedding cake

[RockinHippy]

Sorry, just seen your further posts - if your grandad made cakes, you would know that - sorry for probably telling you how to suck eggs

[RockinHippy]

The models can keep for years Stealth so can be made in advance - though you need to add tylo, which makes them rock hard - technically still edible, but you might break your teeth, so practically - not

[StealthPolarBear]

And he wouldn't have charged them and delivered it to them with a present, knowing him

[StealthPolarBear]

I actually think the cake it pretty good.
But my grandpa would have done better - he was excellent!

[StealthPolarBear]

I don't understand how it's edible either. 1000 hours is about 6 months work surely?

[RockinHippy]

WOW - diamonds or not, I am seriously underwhelmed by the look of that cake - it's absolute shite, they were ripped off my 12 year old can genuinely do better than that - I know I can

[StealthPolarBear]

Presume they'll pick off the 30 million diamonds so the cake really only cost 20 million. Much more reasonable :o

[giraffesCantDoThat]

i.imgur.com/XZPFaxk.png the faces look like this

it is crap

[aoife24]

50 Million dollars would go a very long way to helping their brothers and sisters in the Ummah displaced by the horrors of Islamic state and the chaos of Afghanistan.
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[wonkywheel]

Is it wrong that I'm really incensed more by the fact it's described as a £50mill cake than the fact someone spent that much on it? Imo if the massive majority of the integral value of the cake isn't even the cake/icing/edible ingredients/work to make the cake, then it's NOT a £50million cake, it's a £30 cake with £49,999,970 worth of diamonds on surely?

If I buy/make a birthday cake worth about £20 then plonk it on top of a wedding cake worth £300 then fair enough I can see it'd be a £320 cake (albeit a weird one) but if I then plonk a £10k engagement ring in the top it's not suddenly a "£10k cake", it's just a £320 cake with an expensive decoration on.

[shutupanddance]

Its shit. The cakes crap and thars just vile spending so much on nought.

[LidlSoph]

This is super off topic, but it really needs answering as I'm burning to see if anyone sees the same:

To me it just looks like models of icing, where's the actual cake?

[Sedona123]

Oh dear. That is one really crap and ugly cake.

[ShadowLine]

I wonder how much profit she made after buying the diamonds?

[APlaceOnTheCouch]

What is interesting is that the person who made it apparently also made the world's most expensive dress. Clearly her business plan is not a cake or clothing business, but simply parting fools from their money. I'm taking notes!
That's what I thought too!

It said they asked her to make the cake because the figures were wearing dresses that she (cake maker and fashion designer lady) had made for them so I guess they thought: ' who can make a replica dress out of cake? Oh, I know, ask the woman who made the original dress.' And when she heard they had a budget of £50million, she decided she could make cakes too.

[greathat]

Why would you get someone who designs dresses for a living to make you a cake? Plus is that not a month and a half to make the cake? Is it not getting a bit manky by the time its time to eat it?

[elementofsurprise]

To all those saying diamonds will be inedible/break teeth etc... no. Obviously you swallow them very carefully when no-one is looking and retrieve them, clean them up and selll them later on...

What is interesting is that the person who made it apparently also made the world's most expensive dress. Clearly her business plan is not a cake or clothing business, but simply parting fools from their money. I'm taking notes!

[Lweji]

Actually, I'm not sure now. The top photo looked like a tall take in perspective, but I now think it's the cake going on two tables. Ignore me.