A Failure To Communicate, Vol. 243
October 20, 2014 I like how the only thing legible is the one word NOT supposed to be there:
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Erin K. wanted her daughter's cake to be oriented vertically, or portrait-style, but the baker wasn't getting it.
"You know, the long way?"
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*headdesk*
When you want a big 75, NOT a "big 75."
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Can I quote you on that?
In fact, a lot of butchered instructions end up as new nick names:
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Give up?
They wanted "thank you" written in pink.
And this one didn't want any gel icing:
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Here's a blast from the past: a Historical Society hosted a "President's Tea."
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Thank goodness they weren't screening old 80s TV shows there, too!
Can you imagine if it'd been the "President's Tea & A-Team Party?"
Now imagine, if you will, the ordering process that resulted in this cake:
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I'm picturing a Monty Python sketch, myself.
"No, I want you to STAY HERE, and write the names underneath!"
"So I'm to write these names twice and capitalize 'Underneath.' Got it."
"No, no, it's quite simple. Write 'Happy Birthday' once, and the names underneath."
"If, if, uh... If, if, uh... Oh! Can I write the names three times... IF I use extra sprinkles?"
"AAAAAAUUGH!"
Thanks to Terry M., Erin K., Dan E., Stephanie D., Melanie K., Karen A., & Damon E. - AND NO SINGING!
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Reader Comments (27)
Sung to "Mrs. Robinson"
So, "Cheers to You!" text retirement
Katie loves the long way, doncha know -- whoa, whoa, whoa
You messed up, jeez, putting numbers on
Heaven knows you thought "pinks" was OK
Hey, hey, hey
Not Okay
We'd like to think Cailtin will be called "no gel" for a while
Now, go ahead, Caitie, please help yourself!
Look around, you'll see the T's for the presidential guys
Scroll out icing so the names are not alone!
So, cheers to you, text retirement....
The first appears to read "Cheers to Retirement" (you've gotta keep an eye on that fine print).
I'm not sure the second one would fit in portrait. They might have had to resort to fine print as well.
The fourth cake was made to commemorate Woody Guthrie's birthday. See the cute little microphone in the lower right corner? So cute. So:
As I was walking around the bake'ry
I saw around me some messed up cake'ry
I saw a loss of communi i ca-a-tion
These wrecks were made for you and me
This wreck is my wreck
This wreck is your wreck
Cheerabo Prltremont
Is not quite what you want
Big seven five, you see
Just fits you to a T
This wreck was made for you and me
This cake's for Katie
She likes the long way
Too bad the baker
Made it the wrong way
And Blaze and Damon
Are twice as happy
These wrecks were made for you and me
Methinks this blog could be used for monty python sketches.....
Funny, on that first one, I could CLEARLY make out "Retirement". But it's Monday, and I'm wishing that cake was for me!
LMAO! I'm totally hearing John Cleese and Eric Idle on that last one!
The fourth cake was made to commemorate Woody Guthrie's birthday. See the cute little microphone in the lower right corner? So cute. So:
As I was walking around the bake'ry
I saw around me some messed up cake'ry
I saw a loss of communi i ca-a-tion
These wrecks were made for you and me
This wreck is my wreck
This wreck is your wreck
Cheerabo Prltremont
Is not quite what you want
Big seven five, you see
Just fits you to a T
This wreck was made for you and me
This cake's for Katie
She likes the long way
Too bad the baker
Made it the wrong way
And Blaze and Damon
Are twice as happy
These wrecks were made for you and me
I wonder if Nogel, Pinks, and Katie Long Way will end up in the baby name books as most popular names in 2014?
1. I love how they thought that they could maybe hide the cupcakes with that little "overhang" of frosting! It looks almost like a cake on wheels.
2. MY, Minnie! What big hands you have! Also, for an 86-yr.old, you'd think she'd be nearly ready to calm down a bit with the flashing.
3. I actually see this as kind of normal. People always call something a "big" whatever (like "the big FIVE-0", or the "big" er ...other things... Let's move along.
4. Yes, they did....but JUST MAYBE more than one SHADE of pink...(?) Duhhh
5. Ah, the youngest of the Nogel family. Sweet girl.
6. The Red Rectangles do a lot of "Good Works," I'll have you know. Such AS: keeping the Garden Club trained in how to keep from losing their prize roses during a typhoon, and......Anyway, I'll thank you to refrain from mocking this noble group of ... ...Oh, forget it !*snicker*.
7. MAYBE what they meant-to-want-to say was "Under Neat that"....hmmmm? =^-.-^=
I thought it said "Thank you Oinks". Oinks is a much better nickname than Pinks.
If only "Happy Birthday Caitlyn Nogel" had been written in gel icing, it would be a Perfect Wreck. Wreckage Perfection? A Wrecktion Perfection?
*scribbling* Nogel, Pinks, Katie Long Way... Must give these to the pregnant daughter as potential names. I totally think she'll appreciate it! Thanks Cake Wrecks for providing, not only the perfect nursery rhymes and songs to sing to my grandbaby, but also naming options! One stop shopping!
@SuBee ~ I think your computer has the hick-ups. ;-)
I'm really slow today -- after looking at this post at least 4 times -- couldn't stop snort laughing -- I just now realized that the first one is a ccc (patooie) beer stein??!!
I am so glad you gave a translation of the fourth cake. I don't know if I need new glasses or a new smartphone, but it looked like Oinks to me. At least Pinks isn't too bad a nickname.
"Thank You Oinks"
(spit, snort!)
Did anyone else try to get to the comments section and get hijacked to a bad ad website for 20 seconds?
And the stein CCC really, just . . . no.
[Editor's note- Hi TXRed. First I'm hearing of it. Would you email me when you get a chance and let me know what you can? Thanks! -john@cakewrecks.com]
Actually, I was thinking that last cake looks more like it says "Demon's name underneath".... perhaps it's really a ritual from Supernatural... you know, order a devil's food cake, and write the following incantation in red icing: "Happy Birthday, Benny Blaze, Happy Birthday" with the name of the demon you desire to summon underneath... then you recite the entire incantation, and eat the cake, yeah?
Beerenstein Wreckerator = Instagram junkie.
The president was just marking his piece of cake. If anyone other than the president were to receive that T, they would have a dozen secret service agents tackling them to the ground.
@FM: Only if lots of Wreckies are having babies, (or, in Jodee's case, grandbabies)! Now all the parents need to do is come up with some unique spellings. How about Knowjel, Peenques, and Kaytee Thlong Waie (the 'Th' is silent).
@sendingtheclowns: I just realized why parents have such a hard time teaching little girls to keep their dresses down. Minnie is such a poor role model!
I still don't get that last one. Are there three birthday persons (Benny, Blaze, and Damon) or is Benny-Blaze one person? And WHY would one actually write, "Damon's Name Underneath" on a cake?
@SuBee: encore...encore...oh, wait...you did.... <3
I rather liked the idea that the first one had a reference to Cheetos, matching the color. Alas, no.
#5: Well, at least/too bad they didn't write it in gel icing....now that would've been some "sweet" irony!
#7: Coincidentally, I was just [re]watching Holy Grail the other day, I can picture that scene with the dialogue replaced. If only Sir Lancelot had interrupted this cake's decorator in his own particular...erm...what's the word?....Idiom! Yes, in his own particular idiom! We would've just had a spot of blood on the cake to deal with instead of this piped mess!
Don't assume that every time something is written incorrectly on a cake it's because the baker can't communicate with the customer. Many, many times somebody ELSE writes down an order (and let me tell you, the forms they give us aren't very big) and it's easy to get confused when you're reading your coworker's instructions, especially if it's all smooshed together on two small lines.
Lol boy this make me not want to order a cake ever again. I just know one day I would get a wreck lol. Can't wait to see what they have in store for Halloween. I sense more clown horror to come my way.
I'ts just plain depressing to think that people who are that outrageously DUMB have jobs writing things.
For so many salutation mistakes to happen it makes me wonder what the bakeries order forms look like.
I thought that last one was some kind of incantation:
Happy Birthday
Benny Blaine
Happy Birthday
Demon's Name Urlurgrtheth
At least there wasn't a raffle after the President's tea.
The news of the President's T and A Raffle would cause quite a scandal to be discussed at the historical society's next meeting.