Only slightly past its sell by date from the journals of Really Should Have Known Better comes word of a special cake-related promotion from Ted Kefalinos of Greenwich Avenue's Lafayette French Pastry bakery. Along with the rest of the US / world he decided to help commemorate the wonders of President Obama's election. Only, unlike most people, he did it via rather racist baked goods.

Here we are - latest product: the Drunken Negro Face.

Check the vid, below.

Purrretty damn appalling in taste it might be but the Fox (say no more - but it has been reported elsewhere too) news report above about it had some top lines in. It's not everywhere the line "Would you like some drunken Negro Heads to go with your coffee comes out?". It also came with a perceived death threat to the risen star, el Presidente, saying that "he's following in the same path as Abraham Lincoln. He will get his.". Old Lincs there of course was the first US president to get assassinated, but luckily as you'll see in the clip the proprietor did apparently mean something to do with the state where they used to both live - after checking with the interviewer that indeed they did both use to live there.

Another highlight is pulling that classic "I can't be racist, I've got a Cuban brother-in-law" line.

And on the subject of tarring all the darker-skinned population as ugly drunkards (that taste of cookies, presumably):

"You don't think black people would like this portrayal of them on a cookie do you?"
"Yeh, they did. I asked."

was also a highlight.

We should of course note that, despite the renaming of the cookies as "Obama faces" on the inauguration day itself, the most recent president with something of a known drink problem was rather whiter than Obama. Obama himself is more into illegal recreational drugs, sensible bloke - or at least should we say somewhat more open about them with regards to his history.

Still, rather idiotic and inappropriate as Ted's "fun faces" idea was, it's got him a pile of free, if not positive, publicity. Including this page. And trust the Poorhouse, you can't view the clip and not do a few quick LOLs at the same time as you get an insight into the Fox News tripe that the US gets blasted with. Yes, this is from a real news channel. It's hard not to believe that Brass Eye-esque style satire was involved here mind...chuck it on a DVD and he could make millions.

Apparently his pastries are pretty rank in the tastebud department too, but it's hard to separate out food critic from offended citizen sometimes. The Poorhouse's favourite review of the ones he could be bothered to look through was of course:

I had a cream filled Éclair from Lafayette French Pastry Bakers and had explosive diarrhea for a day and a half.

Tasty.