When Cakes Need Copy Editors
July 8, 2011 People often bemoan the fact that we don't have spell check for cakes, but as every writer knows, spell check doesn't catch everything.
After all, this IS spelled correctly:
I once participated in a Rock-A-Thon when I was a teenager: a group of us rocked in rocking chairs for eight hours straight to raise money for charity. Now, if I'd had the option to rock a thong, instead?
Um. Yeah, I would've stuck with the rocking chair.
They wish, baker. They wish.Calling your boss "sexy" is a risky endeavor at the best of times - but it certainly doesn't help when the baker forgets a letter in "sexiest."
But hey, it's just a tiny mistake. The rest of the spelling is perfect!*
Oops.And finally, when Steve and Marcus were planning their joint birthday party, they went with a Back to the Future inspired "Enchantment Under the Sea" theme - naturally.
One question, guys: Why wasn't I invited? They ordered a cake with "Enchantment Under the Sea" written on it - and when the baker misspelled "enchantment" on the order form, Marcus immediately began hoping for a Cake Wreck.
Well, they did get one, but not in the way he expected. See, apparently the baker mistook "the sea" to mean the cake's deco pack, and...well...
You must admit: as wrecks go, this is kinda awesome.Thanks to Ashli D., Ann Marie P., Erika T., Shea, & Marcus H. for being awl-around grate guise.
*Note: Sarcasm.
Reader Comments (75)
Chest club! It's like it was made especially for me.
You have to be young to rock a thong. I wish everyone would just remember that.
I was fully prepared for there to be a giant C and the word Enchantment written under it. LOL.
Some states have implemented rules that make it illegal to discuss birth control freely. Planned parenthood is now "implying" that they can provide such services. We live in troubled times
BTW, if you require birth control pills, the Starship Contracepto will be sent to your home planet to help guide you.
WV: Toomaxy-If you're toomaxy, you shouldn't try to rock a thong.
On cake Number 3. What does “Dexist” mean? Does it means prejudice againsts Dexes?
I love the Enchantment Under cake.
The sea is implied- and I must say, much more subtly than the birth control on cake two.
am i the only one to notice that world is spelled wrong? lol
They didn't spell "Planned Parenthood" correctly (left the "ed" off of Planned) and "Imply about Birth Control" was most likely a reference to the type of decoration requested for the cake and not something that was supposed to be written on the cake.
WV: hoolamen -- Steve and Marcus were a couple of hooligans who rocked thongs, ogled the chest club, and implied about birth control with their sexist boss. Now that they've grown up, they're hoolamen who have us all under their enchantment.
@SuBee: But not too young.
Is "Wolds" preceded by an inverted exclamation point like in Spanish, or is the company named iWold(s)?
I'm a long time lurker...but the sexist spelled "world's" wrong too. I'm so addicted to this site lol.
I have a feeling the Youth Rock-A-Thong and the Chest Club may be the same group-- or at least they should have joint meetings.
That birth control cake, I mean, I wish there were words to describe it...
Jackie
These are hilarious and the Rock A Thon sounds awesome! And now I would like some cake.....
Though we often blame mistakes on English not being the baker's first language, I think that must actually be the case for cake number three. Is there a story to go with it? I imagine it was a cake ordered in another country for an American company. Am I close?
The last cake, whadda we call it? A reverse Underneath That?
I bet they would raise a lot if the Youth Rock-a-Thong, the Chest Club and Plan Parenthood all co-sponsored a fundraiser, MC'd by the sexist CEO.
wv-releg: (verb) what table repairers do.
Thank god no Birthday cakes today, just-your-run-of-the-mill promotional cakes;....hummm, chest club (aw,no chest hair on it), is that like hair club for men?
You gotta give that last cake's decorator a bit of credit for thinking 'outside' the box.
Sort of.
I'm pretty sure that the kit used on that last cake is "Finding Nemo" themed, anybody else getting that vibe?
Enchantment cake isn't FINISHED yet, that's all!
The wreckorator was JUST ABOUT to add the next line/word (lovely script, btw) when her/his way-serious food-additive allergy kicked in, Big Time. Her/his nose began to run (also Big Time). She/he was just about to drop everything and run for her/his allergy meds, but something else was about to drop first...uh-oh...uh-oh...
OH, NO!!!
=^e.e^=
LOL - those are great!
I've had to type letters at work and my favorite mistake was "bust" duct (bus). "But boss, I spell-checked..." Good thing he has a great sense of humor!
wv: frablat: 1) A type of horn from a Dr. Seuss book. 2) Noise similar to kersplat.
"Enchantment Under"!! "Chest Club"!!! Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
I think the G on Thong seems to be an afterthought--look how it's squeezed in there, and the color sequence of the lettering would call for yellow.
Oh good god, do people not even THINK about these things???
Dory! I see Dory on the last cake!!
"Starship Contracepto" LOVE IT!!! LOL! (thank you Amy's Mom)
Only good thing about the "thong" mistake is that it's not entirely impossible to fix. Might have a little ding on the white frosting, but at least you can remove the excess letter.
Call me crazy, but I think the birth control one may have started out as a "to do" list. Especially if the word was meant to be enquire/inquire. So the person who took down the order was planning to go to Planned Parenthood, wrote it own so s/he wouldn't forget, then the phone rang with an order and s/he didn't have any other paper to write it down on... And the rest is history!
WV: thrette. A threat made by a French woman,
Man, if ever there were a better reason to "PLAN PARENTHOOD," that birth control cake is it.
Someone in management at that store/bakery should gather their "help" together and Imply about learning how to read, write, and SPELL.
There's something frankly creepy/perverted about putting the words "youth" and "thong" in the same sentence, just in case that isn't an actual mistake. (Ya never know, these days!)
And who knows? Maybe there really IS a CHEST CLUB. Made up of people who collect chests to put their chess sets in. Because they have a LOT of chess sets. Chess hoarders, maybe? Chest whoreders?
(sigh)
=^@.@^=
Also, it's "planned parenthood," not "plan parent hood"
To me, a real wreck is a mistake you didn't even think to mention because it's so unexpected, and the Enchantment one in particular certainly nailed that!
Uh, that pill package sort of "implies" birth control all right...
Sharon
If you had rocked a thong during a Rock-A-Thon, there's a chance you would have stuck TO the rocking chair.
I have a feeling you have to flip over the "Enchantment Under" cake to read the rest.
It could thave been worse:
C
------------
ENCHANTMENT
WVW: cimps. Chimpanzees of low intelligence.
As a copy editor, it's good to know spell check can't push me out of a job completely.
WV: ingiste - Some cakes are easier to ingiste than to read.
My wv would make a good 80's themed cake wreck: sionse
She blinded me with sionse.
If I were young enough to "rock a thong", I wouldn't want the grandma-inspired cake decor....
Just sayin'
Oh wow. I really hope that Youth Rock-A-Thong cake was for a church youth group... Maybe a little sadistic, I know, but still.
Ah, those were the days when I was still invited to the Chest Club. Now, after breast feeding three kids, I get frequent calls from the Deflated Balloon Club. Ho hum.
WV spebele - The bakers this round had problems when they tried to spebele words on these cakes.
Hilarious as usual. Thanks.
What the heck is iWolds, as in "iWolds sexist CEO"?
Rock a thong? Chest club? High school sure sounds like a lot more fun now than when I was a kid. Why the high dropout rate?
How do we know iWolds' CEO isn't a sexist, hmmmm? Maybe that cake was to announce a class action suit. It all started when the CEO implied about birth control.
I kind of like the Zen minimalism of the "Enchantment Under" cake.
The Enchantment Under cake WAS done correctly by the bakery, except just like Marty McFly's picture of his family, part of it is disappearing because someone made some change in the past!
This comment has branded me as a geek.
"Rock a Thong" and "Chest Club" are hilarious enough, but "World's Sexist CEO???" I must have died and gone to irony heaven...
Where to begin?
#1. Birth control pills now come in a rectangular package, not a round one. Did a dude do the decorating? Or a post-menopausal woman who hasn't taken birth control in 30-some years?
#2. Frankly, I'm surprised the Enchantment cake didn't look like this:
The Sea
Enchantment
#3. @Amy'sMom: Starship Contracepto sounds like the inspiration for a new hit sci-fi series! Awesome!
Not to mention that it is Planned Parenthood, not Plan Parenthood. Easy mistake, though.
The WOLD cake is from Harry Chapin's radio retirement home, no? It is to honor of his station's sexist CEO, si? I also noticed the inverted exclamation point at the start of the line so the cake decorator was Latin, tal vez? If so, then possibly Harry's radio station is a Mexican Radio and the cake was run through a wall of voodoo to get to Harry.
I am the morning DJ at W-O-L-D!!!
WV: Pleri - I looked at the dyslexic baker's cake's verbiage and it all began to get pleri and run off the sides.
Back to the Future + Finding Nemo= SO MUCH AWESpoOME :)
Why is there a pill between the Sat and Sun pill? This would be a really bad birth control pack!
Lol, on the "sexist CEO" cake, "world's" is spelled "wold's". That didn't help things...
Savvy