Tuesday
Feb232010
The Literal Letter of the Law
February 23, 2010 On the plus side, at least we know these bakeries are taking notes.
Aw, nuts.Ok, so they have no idea what the notes mean, but they are taking them.
"Bring it in the a.m."Heh. And I thought *I* wasn't a morning person.
Ah, the mind of a Wreckerator.
"It's a good thing they're buying a big sheet cake; otherwise there's no way this would all fit!"(Note: those clover-looking things in "40th" are supposed to be hearts.)
Michele K., Sandy S., & Laurisa R., you know what these Wrecks need? More candles. Srsly. Step it up, ladies.
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Reader Comments (120)
Clearly, "stupid is as stupid does."
LOL...somebody beat me to the punch on Peter's 'nut allergy'.
Oh, Cake Wrecks...how I missed thee!
I think the bakers at my local Wal-Cake are getting suspicious. When they see me, they're overly eager to help me. I can no longer take furtive pictures to decide if they're wreck worthy or not...
I think cake 1 should be the cover of the next book: well executed decorating, ill-advised writing.
Classic wrecks, Jen!
Is it, perhaps, customary for the chain-food bakers to do several rounds of shots prior to the days' decorating?? I just can't get my head around how someone could miss the instructions versus the message.
Stay in school, kids!
I also thought the second cake said "bang it in the am". Lol. Sooooo lol. Who doesn't like to bang their cake in the am?
I love how George the Giant's candles stick up at you just like the nails he's laying on in the photo. At least the wreckorator was sharp on that one!
While they may be taking notes, they aren't following them! The 0 in the 40th cake is SUPPOSED to be a heart and yet it is just a plain '0' lol....eh..at least they wrote out the instructions so you can squint your eyes and PRETEND that 0 is a heart! :)
Heh. I read it as "Bang it in the AM." Probably thanks to Peter and his nuts allergy. Heh.
I too read "Bang it in the AM."
I really don't know where they're finding these people to employ. I work in a Jewel-Osco, and the college students who work in our bake shop do WAY better than this. I have yet to find a wreck worthy cake in 3+ years of working there. The closest I've come was a giant cookie with "happy bithday".
O.!
M.!
G.!
Oh. Oh! *Candles!* That's what those things are in the last picture. Gee, and I thought the twirly colorful ones were overkill... Well, we either have some very smart aleck-wise-guys running America's bakeries or a bunch of, well, you get the drift. The cakes say it all...literally. :D sigh
These have to be made by someone who doesn't speak English. There can be no other reason why anyone would think that's what the customer wanted.
i love wrecks like today's posts....
it could happen......
Cakes 1 and ckes 2 are sitting on the same counter!
I also thought it was "Bang it in the am" which sounds like a bad come-on line!
WV: gesims: what you have when you bang it in the a.m.
That is hilarious! Too busy, over worked, tired, or just dumb? oh my.
"Anonymous said...
ok so to me cake #2 looks like it says "Bang it in the morning"....which leads us down an entirely different path altogether..."
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that read it like that! I laughed hysterically just at that for a good five minutes!
I ordered ur book, Cant wait!
I love the jeep one. I know it says "Bring it in the a.m." but it looks like it says "BANG it in the a.m." lol and peter...nuts allergy...I've died and gone back to seventh grade.
The 2nd cake looks like 'Bang it in the air' .................haha!
Okay, I'm going to be the first to bring this up.
I see you're started to watermark your photos with your URL.
I have no problem with this.
What I do have a problem with, is that you did it in quite possibly the world's most loathed font, Papyrus. (okay, second most--most loathed is comic sans)
Papyrus is like the cake wreck of the design world.
For examples:
http://www.papyruswatch.com/
http://www.ihatepapyrus.info/blog/
Please, I beg of you, change the font you use to watermark with.
Do not sully the sheer awesomeness of this blog. Because Cake Wrecks is awesome, and papyrus is not.
I thought the heart was a Mickey Mouse head, actually.
Good grief. Where, oh where!, did these wreckerators leave their brains?
Talk about just "going through the motions" - they obviously aren't THINKING about what they are writing on the cakes.
Sheesh.
Cake Decorator Vertigo Batterhead Syndrome is very serious...
Hey, at least #2 got sprinkles
-Lisa F.
I bet these make great inside jokes. I can just see these famiy members high fiving each other and saying "Bring it in the a.m.!"
Wouldn't you at least realize the error halfway though icing the words? How can they seriously sell these cakes with a straight-face?
I read that last cake, and your note and the cake and your note and the cake...repeat about ten times before I got it.
I don't think cakes are supposed to be that hard. The hard...alone...should have clued in the decorator.
ironically they came so close to getting yesterday's train cake right ...
I looked at wreck #2 and could have sworn it said "Bang it in the morning."
I love your blog, it starts my day out with a laugh - thanks
hahahaha i thought it said "bang it in the AM"... i was trying to figure out what possible occasion this could mark...
These are my favorite type of wreck. It's like they're zombie icers - just writing exactly what they see without any brain activity at all.
-Holly
The 40th birthday cake is my favorite wreck of all. Kudos to that wreckorator. They got it so spectacularly wrong it boggles the mind.
That said, I would proudly display that one at my party. What a conversation starter.
these cakes made me laugh out loud; First time in awhile I haven't relied on the fabulous commentary to make me laugh! love these ones. So hilarious :)
Mike is 16, after all, so I'm pretty sure "Bang it in the a.m." works.
The first cake was not wreck until "Nuts Allergy" was so nicely piped over the greeting! What a tragedy!
it's amazing to me that the wreckerator on the first cake can have SUCH good writing, and yet, apparently can't actually READ.
I read the tractor cake as a challenge: "Bring it in the a.m." Like he's being challenged to tractor pull at dawn.
I also read cake #2 to say bang it in the a.m. Lol what I can't believe is where did they find these people and why did they hire them to decorate cakes??? My birthday is coming up soon and as I think about ordering a cake I am suddenly very very afraid.
it has to be someone that doesn't speak english so they are just copying the letters.
I see I wasn't the only one to see "Bang it in the a.m." - I was wondering for a moment if it was really an appropriate cake for a child.
That one cake looked like "Bang it in the am". And that's what I'd do if I got a cake like that. Bang it right upside someone's head.
I think the morning cake says "Bang it in the morning" which just makes it even funnier!
Did anyone else see "Flappy Birthday" on the first cake or was that just me? Guess it's better than "flabby" but still...
Hmmm, maybe the people decorating these cakes don't read or write English?
If I got the "Bring it in the AM" cake, my mom would just say that she was encouraging me to get up earlier.
That's actually a pretty cool way of saying it, imo. Especially since the monster truck cake makes me read it in a super-manly announcer voice.
BRING IT IN THE AM!
Glad I'm not the only one to read "Bang it in the a.m." Although, I suppose it could be a nice little note of encouragement.
Just a quick note -
"Bring it in the am" has become a catch-phrase in my household, just as "Nappy Blob Blob" has... Excellent find!
Michele