True Colors
February 28, 2012 You with the baaad eyes
Don't be discouraged!
Oh I realize
It's hard to read orders
;)
In a shop full of people
Who drive you up a wall
And the bakers beside you
Can make you feel so small
;)
But I see your TRUE COLORS
Writing through!
;)
I see your TRUE COLORS
'Cuz that's how I write, too!
;)
So DON'T BE AFRAID!
To let them flow
Your true colors
;)
True colors are literal
Like a "stilleto"
[ALL TOGETHER NOW!]
And I'll see your TRUE COLORS
Causing "boo"s!
I see your TRUE COLORS
But don't let that stop you!
;)
So don't be afraid!
To let them flow
Your true colors
;)
True colors are "beautiful,"
Like this raaaainbow:
;)
A big "thank you in puce" to Andrea P. Mark A., Caylin C., Darnie S., Lezlie S., Paula P., Andrea H., Christine F., & Lacey for today's colorful characters.
Reader Comments (78)
*facepalm* (in red)
With sprinkles.
Yay! My favorite--the literal LOL's!!
I'm definitely going to start saying 'Thank you in purple' to people from now on.
These ones always just kill me. I don't understand how so many people do this, and how many examples are on this site alone. Just...how?
It boggles the mind.
How em-effin' STUPID can people be at all???
Or are they all just color blind???
Blue written out in yellow and yellow written out in blue... it's mindboggling. Just mindboggling.
Wow. That "rainbow" looks like someone mixed together all of the play-doh colors and smeared it on the cake!
Up too early with a sick little one, but my day's better already: giggles at funny cakes, and Cyndi Lauper (who will be stuck in my head all day, no doubt!). Thanks! :)
*Writes 'Most Excellent!' in bright orange*
How I will place my next cake order:
"I Drove All Night to get to this bakery. All Through the Night, I contemplated my order and some things I have learned from reading Cake Wrecks and Time After Time I came to the same conclusion; you get what you pay for, so Money Changes Everything. That and to carefully interview your decorator, because Girls Just Want to Have Fun (She Bop!).
Now, if you get this order right, I'll Kis You."
I'm sure "Son", "Brondi" & "Samanta" are happy with their wreckerator's choices of colors. MUCH better than what was specified. :P
It's really embarassing to be sitting at my desk laughing out loud and spitting on my computer screen!
HOW??? How how how how how??? Are bakeries all staffed with ESL-speakers?
Couldn't bakeries develop order forms in which you write the message you want on the cake in one box and then beneath it specify the font color for the message? Or could someone develop an app that shows bakers how you want the cake to look - so that these kinds of things don't happen anymore???
I'm usually appropriately shocked and horrified on behalf of whatever poor soul unwittingly walked in to pick up their cake order and was presented with one of these monstrosities. But honestly, mauve? "MAUVE"?!?! If you need to ask for "mauve" writing, you deserve what you get.
This is my all-time favorite song and you JUST MADE IT EVEN BETTER!!! You rock Jen!
Somehow, it's always more painful when the wreckerator has nice handwriting, like in the first and penultimate ones.
My favorite is that even when the baker had a 50/50 chance of getting "Samant(h?)a yellow" and "Bro(a?)ndi blue" correct, they managed to eff it up.
Dear Green and Yellow,
Noctogenarian jerks.
"Love," The Color Wheel.
*headdesk*
Not sure there are words... they've all been taken. Too literally in mauve.
Why do we call it COMMON sense, when it obviously isn't?
BTW - Love Cyndi Lauper!
You did a FAB job with the song! I loved this post. I now have that wonderful song looping thru my brain, and the images that it will bring from this day forward will be of cakewrecks.
I wonder what kind of experiences one has during a year that classifies the prior 12 months as a "purple" year.... And, what I don't understand, is someone gives instructions to have the colors be only green and yellow..... Where did the pink come from?
Well, at least Andrea got sprinkles. I hope that Cristina was happy when she got her cake, or at least laughed.
Cake #3 was presented to the staff of the mayor of Purple, Idaho, who had helped him through his first year in office. "Mauve Ben and Lurlie (Iwslie?)" was supposed to be "Happy Move, Ben and Lurlie (Iwslie?)" but having just made the mayor's cake, purple hues were on the baker's mind.
I have to wonder if not only was some poor child named after a style of shoe, but it was misspelled, to boot. (Hee! See what I did there?)
There once was a baker named Roy
Who used pink to pipe "It's a Boy"
Every time he skipped sprinkles
His eyes shone with twinkles
"I LOVE having cakes to destroy!"
Wow, I can't believe there are so many of these! I don't know whether to laugh at the customer for writing/saying colour information in the wrong place or groan at the cake makers for taking everything SO literally!
I love how on Wreck #7, the one that specifies blue icing is the only one NOT written in blue. It's as though the wreckerator just wanted to add a tiny little additional insult.
Near where I live, there's a "gentleman's club" (that's what it calls itself) named Stiletto's. Given its reputation and its frequent appearances on the police blotter, it's rather appropriate that the place is named for a concealed weapon.
*facepalm* in blue
with sprinkles
deep fried
underneat that
in script
I love a site where you don't have to make things up --- truth is funnier than fiction!
Makes you wonder how many times bakery managers have told their employees, "We don't pay you to think."
This is actually bugging me. Who is that "mauve" cake for? Does it say "Ben & lurlie"?! Forget the weirdness of mauve, what kind of a name is "lurlie"? Who names their kid "lurlie"?
The literal wrecks are one of my favorites! Especially when the specified color isn't used! Bwahahaa!
Well, at least Andrea DID get her sprinkles!
Ahh classic cakewrecks-the literal LOL's-too bad-some of them had potential for being nice, if they'd been done by literate people.
Any guesses who Ben is with? My best guess is Leslie. Because Iuslie? Not so much. Although I suppose it could be Ben Eluslie... Though if you're asking for mauve writing, anything is possible.
My least-favorite Cyndi Lauper song, EVAR gets the treatment it so richly deserves!
As do these "cakes"!
w00t!
Oh, I love the literal LOL's!
That first one looks photoshopped! I have, of course, seen a great many shopped images in my time, and I can tell by the pixels. Does anyone else thinks it looks a little weird?
And is it Cristina Noh, or a non-small font? And why is Cristina happy?
#1 Somebody FINALLY got sprinkles!
#2 Glad you're so happy, Cristina--we got you this cake to show you!
#3 The mayor of Purple, Ohio commissioned the cake for his constituents after his first year in office--you know politicians!
#4 Happy Birthday to a redhead!
# 5 This cake is for a three-way couple--Mauve, Ben, & Lurlie (?) How nice that they get along so well.
#6 Somebody REALLY loves their shoes
#7 WTF does this cake say?!?
#8 Lifelong Packers fan
# Taste the rainbow if you dare
What is wrong with the people that take these orders... perhaps you can start an online course for talking a cake order. Oh sorry that's called 'common sense'! I guess you've either got it or you haven't... Great blog btw!
#4 Oh no! "Happy Birthday" in red -- and I used all the red icing on Valentine's day! Wait...maybe if I write 'red' on the cake, it will still count!
#6 Maybe the recipient's nickname is 'Stilleto' -- and she (?) spells it that way on purpose. Right.
#7 This could be one of those brain teaser things where you have to say the name of the color instead of the color of the text. Or not.
#8 "Green and yellows only!" Except for the pink flowers and the black message, I'd say they nailed it.
#9 "Let's see...is it ROY G. VIB? GOY V. RIB? GOV. BIRY? Never mind -- I'll just smush them all together. The correct sequence is bound to be in there, somewhere. Let the folks on Cake Wrecks figure it out.
DOC alert. DOC alert. This is not a drill. Be sure to carry all colors today. That is all.
Oh man, green and yellow only is so tragic. It's such pretty penmanship!! XP
Like most of the others, I just am mind-boggled by the number of times that this happens. Just why?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Think positive people! Always think positive!! All the spellings are right today!
Cruel and unusual punishment for those that are color-blind.
That second one is a beautiful cake, though. I think it's supposed to be Cristina (no "h") -- most people would spell it Christina.
But.... Happy Birthday, Stilleto? lmao
Why do people keep questioning my name???
I bet Ben had a heck of time explaining to lugie (Lusie?) who Mauve was. And why she was on the cake!
As someone who works in customer service I have to wonder if any of these were done accidentally on-purpose, say from an annoying customer? If I worked in cakes I confess that I would be tempted.
The literals are the best!!!
cake #1 - If the icing was supposed to be blue, why didn't the baker just make blue icing??!! Why the bad blue airbrushing job??!!
cake #3 - Wendy and Lisa gave that cake to Prince
cake #7 - my favorite! definitely a new classic!
cake #8 - I love how enthusiastic the baker is over the colors. "Green and yellows only! how wonderful! Now I can make the roses pink!" Actually it's a little known fact that the color scheme green and yellow has only been around 90 years.
oh wow! I really needed that song stuck in my head like I need one of those cakes... :P
These are individually funny, but WOW, so many in a row!
These are hilarious!! Typed in black. Then pressed create post. Did not swear. Was nice. All in black.
So THAT'S what happens when you eat too much Play-Doh! One of life's great mysteries has been solved!
Cake # 5- from the old Bea Arthur TV show... And then there's Mauve.
Just in time for my birthday with sprinkles! How serendipitous with sprinkles!