a cake was baked as high as blueberrys tallest spire ; roast pigs were stuffed with vulpine crab , which were stuffed beforehand with corvine ponies , which had been force fed meat from whales who had subsisted only on pig meat for the duration of their captivity ; dried gnat gizzards had been brought in from the southern provinces and man-telope eggs were collected in bulk to make table-sized omelets ; casks of distilled mud lined the inner walls , stacked three-high and nucleotide cocktails were mixed by chemists to produce tastes custom-made for the unique taste buds of each guest imbibing them .