(Donna, I'm sorry I didn't spot these before you left London. Though maybe a walk in the Richmond Deer Park was a better use of your limited free time.)
Spotted in time for Halloween by Ed Yong on The Guardian's website: "Herpes cupcakes! Smoker’s lung cake! The world’s most revolting (anatomically correct) cakes." And not just herpes: a full range of STD cupcakes (affectionately known as "STuD Muffins", I'm sure). Many more delights, including "a cup of flesh". All available (for a limited time only, ends today) at the cake shop at the Pathology Museum in London. All are edible. All depict some kind of morbidity.
As I understand it, you pay three and a half pounds, and you get what you get. Just like diseases in real life ... you don't get to choose, for the most part.
Some of these (as Ed notes) are delightfully repulsive. All would be loads of fun to have arrive on a plate at one's table. Here's one that probably won't put anyone off their feed. It probably fits the "eat your heart out" theme best. It's a fruit cake wrapped in marzipan ... with stitches.
I think my favorite are the Magotty Cupcakes. I'll put a photo at the bottom of this post so that the queasy among you can avoid it. But if you have the stomach, look at all 11 photos. They're really beautifully done. Happy Halloween!
Announcement from The Guardian website:
The world's most revolting cakes - in pictures
A repulsive cake shop is about to open at London's Pathology Museum graphically illustrating medical conditions and symptoms of disease in sugar, chocolate and sponge. Catch it while you can ...• Eat Your Heart Out 2012 runs from 26–28 October at St Bart's Hospital, London
... and, as promised:
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