The new Pixar movie, Up, includes a couple edible East Bay cameos, including Oakland ice cream parlor Fenton’s, and the Merritt Bakery. The producer and director both live in Oakland and take their kids to the Piedmont Avenue ice creamery, and the Pixar staff often go there for celebrations, Producer Jonas Rivera told the Chron. He said he got a free sundae during the negotiations with Fenton’s to use their likeness (the ice cream parlor was happy to oblige). In a smaller-scale nod to the Mellow City, the Merritt Bakery’s famous hamburger cake shows up as a merit badge on the young protagonist’s “Wilderness Scout” uniform. Those animators sure have a sweet tooth. [Via SF Chronicle, SF Gate/The Poop]
