Colin is not a birthday cake

[BeMintFatball]

Tomorrow our younger daughter is 24. I would love to have the energy to make her a cake but I’m running on fumes and have been for months.

I gave my husband one job. Go buy her a birthday cake. He sent me a photograph Colin. I said no, there is only one time a year she can have a cake with happy birthday written on it. Would you believe such a thing does not exist at our nearest M&S!

Her older sister has come to the rescue, she’s gone to Sainsbury’s.

YABU Colin is the gold standard shop bought cake

YANBU Colin is an any time of year cake

But he has a penis so he must have done something wrong intentionally🙄

🙄 enough time and free headspace to complain a out someone complaining about Colin as a birthday cake though

I was just musing last week to DH, having bought yet another Colin for a birthday, how popular they are and how much M&S must have made from them,lawsuits notwithstanding.

Definitely the gold standard. The mini ones are delicious too.

This year I didn’t get my DS a big one and instead I bought lots of little ones and made a display with a load of tea lights, he loved it, he’d 28😀

Well this is a revelation. I'd say Colin is a birthday cake and it would be slightly odd to have one for any other occasion.

I don't know what Colin is for if it's not to serve as a birthday cake.

I’m planning to get a wheat free Colin for my son’s 24th. I think he’ll be happy - good shop bought gluten free cakes can be quite hit and miss but this one is said to be delicious.

How would you feel if i got a bog standard swiss roll and put my own buttercream, smarties and choc buttons on it, plus candles etc? That's what i've always done for my youngest (now 11), he always seemed to like it, but i think i'll have to come up with a new trick for his 12th!

Opinions will vary I’m sure. I doubt though, if it was a nonissue, that the OP would have bothered with thread.

My birthday is December 25th and there have been times growing up when candles were put on a Yule Log.

Madness. No other occasion calls for a Colin, why else would you buy one?! Of course it’s a birthday cake, that’s his whole purpose.

I want some birthday cake now.😋

one hopes you didn’t learn the foil trick by bitter experience.

That's hilarious (sorry). Who doesn't like a yule log? Very pagan. So is celebrating birthdays, so i guess it works?

Colin is 100% a birthday cake!

Scandalous!

And Cuthbert, his rival from Aldi is even worse

Buy happy birthday candles?

Wash your mouth out OP.

This thread is a disgrace.

People eat Colin when it’s NOT their birthday?!

I rather like the look of Cuthbert unadorned...
Do I have a problem?

Well I’m 47 next week and DD has just bought me a Colin. And I’m bloody delighted. Maybe I’m childish; but I don’t care.

@alexdgr8 he does look rather tasty doesn't he 😆

I didn't complain about someone complaining about Colin as a birthday cake.

I did indeed, after the candle had solidified in my large intestine. Fortunately my Mum had tbe insight to run a hot bath and moved the 'blockage' on - only to find the plughole bunged up in the morning.
We laugh about it now but Dad was furious when his shaving foam failed to disappear down the pipe and he feared he had contracted rabies!

We had these for DS’s birthday but rearranged them to read BATH YARD HIPPY.
They are very nice and chocolatey!