There's Your Sign
June 17, 2013 June is Do-It-Yourself Marketing Month, bakers, and you know what THAT means!
Yep: time to SAVE some MONEY!! Woot woot!
Don't have any actual cake for the window display? NO PROBLEM. Styrofoam works wonders - no frosting required!
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Those crowds of customers will come stampeding in any minute!
Any minute.
Annnnnnny minute...
And for an arresting display inside your bakery, all you need is a mannequin head and a bag of laundry!
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I have literally never wanted to purchase baked goods more.
Speaking of which, a good quality product practically sells itself, so be sure to fill your shelves with all your top sellers:
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Kids just want the toys anyway, right?
If they complain, just throw in a tube of icing!
Say, did you know you can save a bundle by typing up your bakery's signage yourself? It's true! And no one will ever know the difference!
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(I hear this place is squeaky clean.)
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I'm partial to the Sahara, myself.
(And if you're wondering where the extra 'S' went ...
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... There it is!)
Now, is it possible to make tiny mistakes when making your own signage? Sure. But I think you'll find that, in the long run, the benefits FAR outweigh the... er...
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Never mind. You're on your own.
Thanks to April M., Denise, Sonya, Meg S., Diana S., Maggie C., Michelle, Nancy M., Brandy F., and Susan R. for the reminder that, sometimes, it pays to pay a real professional.
Reader Comments (75)
I do not like mouse cake Sam I am! (with apologies to Dr. Seuss!)
I do not like it in a box.
I do not like it with a fox
I do not like it in a house
I do not like it with a mouse
I do not like it here or there.
I do not like it anywhere.
I do not like chocolate mouse cake.
I do not like it, Sam-I-am.
Now somebody please let me know when the mouse is gone so I can come back? I have a very big, completely rational fear of mice. I truly don't care if it's chocolate or not.
You guys who think the 9 cent rapes is really talking about rapeseed plants are way to trusting. Waaaaaay to trusting...
That unproofed signage is just one more reminder: spell check will not help you if you are sufficiently, er, literacy-challenged that you cannot tell which of the auto-correct "suggestions" is the one you want.
To put it another way: Language is not a tool for amateurs (unless the job that tool serves would be self-embarrassment).
To sum up, stay in school, kids; learn to read; thank a teacher for not letting you slide; pay a proofreader. The business you save may be your own.
@ Naomi - LOL!
Regarding the 9 cent "seedless rapes", there seems to be a dichotomy of thought here and it is hurting my brain. Here is the problem. If you pay the 9 cents for your "rape", doesn't that imply consent? So it is no longer the thing you thought it was and you demand your money back, which retracts consent and it is what it claims to be once more. Until you pay again...
@sendingtheclowns NO NO NO that's not what I meant at all :D
Perhaps Dessert Storm is the 'operation' depicted in the sequel to Bugsey Malone starring Scott Baio.
Cakes made from scratch ready in one hour? Well, they didn't say what they would be made OUT OF... Maybe 'from scratch' now means 'semi-homemade', or 'for tablescape display only'. Is that a She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named store?
@Sharyn: spp....
@zoomom: lol...good work!!
@SuBee:...and I had tickets for the second night....
We had a classic here in Omaha yesterday at the College World Series:
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/06/college-world-series-dugout-spelling-error/
I understand the occasional typo/misspelling. But really, did they honestly think that writing on styrofoam would entice someone to enter their bakery? Or that Mom would draw in customers, rather than have them shrieking in terror?
Shuddering in horror. Must return to watching baseball!
@Sharyn: Witless Protection Program...oh, lord, I giggle/snorted and tried to cough up a lung at the same time. OUCH
@Craig: "Writhing on cakes." I'd do that for free. (TMI??)
if it costs $2 to get writting on cakes, how much do they charge for properly spelled words, hmmm?
@Jodee: never come to WDW in Orlando- they have a huge mouse problem. ;)
Zoomom, can you please publish that as a children's storybook? I like it so much better than the old fairly tales...and Sharyn, wonderful song as always. Love this place!
I do have to say that the chocolate "mouse" cake does look pretty yummy!
@Jodee:
("I have a very big, completely rational fear of mice.")
Aww,"There, there!" I'm that way about sp-spiders....(eeww) (Mine is totally irrational, but I still can't seem to conquer it.They're all WAY smaller than I am, and the idea of poison, per se, doesn't give me goosebumps. It's the way they MOVE...the way most of them LOOK (i.e.:CREEPY...poor things. But I won't kill them; I relocate them). It is what it is, y'know? Whether we think we "should" fear something or not is meaningless; the fear is real. SPEAKING OF SCARY, these signs & stuff are scary, huh? (AND not as off-topic as my little trip around the mulberry bush!)
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Well now I really think whoever puts up these signs just slaps them on and walks away. I am dying with laughter at the last one. Sheesh. I can't even think what the wreckerators did to the poor mouse to make it nice and chocolate..ick.
@ Sarah (" I am really curious as to how styrofoam baker is going to make a cake from scratch and have it available in one hour. Let's just be honest, that is impressive.")
Sure, it's impressive. But I'M not buyin' it! Just because they're purportedly "made from scratch", it doesn't mean that he/she/ StyroBaker made them him-/herself, really. Semantics! Maybe he's/she's got a bevy of brilliant bakers in the basement, baking! Who cares? He/she might just be bragging. But EH-I really don't care one way or t'other. =^~.-^=
@pikkewyntjie: Your idea(s) regarding the *renaming* of "our" wars/conflicts...tensions/tussles, disagreements/entanglements etc., etc. are... (?) Well, It's...uh...(??)
Huh. I can't even think of WHAT to call it.
Well, I mean, other than sheer brilliance.
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She's STILL in BED??? (Must be NICE, Little Miss Stepford-Wife-Look-Alike Mannequin...er, thing.)
Sheeesh.=^Q.Q^=
I just noticed, the sign for "Breakfast in Bed" is done in landscape layout but the display stand is portrait layout. Do you suppose a wreckarator did the sign, too?
Time to get Ric-Rolled!
Never gonna give you up!
Never gonna let you down!
Never gonna run around and
Dessert you!
seedless rapes? rape by man post vasectomy?
I'm still stuck on the "fresh ingredients" and "no preservatives" in styrofoam cakes. And, like Sarah, I can't for the life of me figure out how, absent a Hogwarts time turner, that baker is going to make a cake from scratch, decorated, spelled correctly and everything, in less than an hour.
shaking my head...
@SuBee, nope that picture was taken (by me!) just last year at a bakery in a small town in MD. Though I wonder if they did it on purpose and hope someone knows of the play. Either way, their brownies were pretty good. I was too hungry to let a spelling mistake deter me :-)
I definitely need to get me some merinuge pie. I hear it's divine.
So funny. So funny. So so funny funny.
First time ever being here. Have laughed myself to tears.
Whoever's place this is..... YOU are FUNNNNEEEEEEE. The only thing I would have done differently is omitted the "is"'s and "a"'s from your dream sequence satire. They simply aren't necessary in the water filter world.
This place is golden. It's Grrreat!
Thank you all. I'll be back!
Is the person who took the photo of the Styrofoam cakes display holding a little dog in a sweater? Hehehe, cute!
Our local bakery does indeed sell mousse mice. They are adorable and quite delicious. The ears and tail are slivered almonds, and the whiskers are chocolate shavings.