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September 14, 2012 Spacing: The FINAL frontier.
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These are the travesties of the bakers-who-don't-plan-ahead-well.
Plus the ones who like to center-justify their text so each line only has four letters each, because, yeah, THAT makes sense.
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(Great. Now I really want there to be a band named the Cong Rats.)
Or how about just three letters each?
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Que?
I know how those long words can sneak up on you, bakers, but the important thing is to make sure everything is legible and spelled correctly:
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Oooh, so close.
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Less close.
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You're kidding, right?
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??
Ahem.
Then there are the bakers who get their spacing right, but throw in a dash anyway:
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Dash it all!
And, uh, this person:
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Oooh, if only there'd been more space for the baker to work with!
And finally, there are the bakers who are just batpoop insane:
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Forget the writing - I want to know what that drippy brown spot is.
Or...do I?
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Thanks to Krissy K.,
Christine D.,
Justine J.,
Chris & Jessica,
Deborah B., Carl J., Marina C., Angela W., Bronwyn G., & Angie W. for really exploring the
bakery space.
Reader Comments (53)
oooh! LOVE the yellow/brown roses! THAT's what i want on my cake! oh yeah, and don't forget to leave a giant airbrushing stain on it too! Thanks~!
At the risk of belonging to an Epcot, I think the drip might be on the outside (judging by the light). I hope it's chocolate sauce.
Are we absolutely sure the writing wasn't done by 5 year olds? I remember what my son's handwriting looked like at the beginning of Kindergarten. Some of these are close. And I'd bet he'd do the strange green squiggle on the icing blobs in the upper corner of Que-en!'s cake. Or is that Que-enJ's cake?
I think someone And then it got ran out of space on the order form on the Ame - nda.
Gotta proofread before hitting send.
I think someone ran out room on the order form for the Ame - nda. Then the wreckerator copied it directly onto the cake.
No, you do NOT want to know what the drippy brown spot it. Just walk away from the display case, now.
Sung to “The Long and Winding Road”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUO7N-zSMYc
The long and winding words
That bakers adore
Will never disappear
We’ve seen such words before
They always leave me here
Chin dropped to the floor
Won’t space the Brewers right
‘Til you get extra pay
You split the Cong Rats up
The heart got in the way –ay –ay – ay
What’s with the dash in “QueenS?”
Not bueno, OK?
Many times I’ve asked myself
What went wrong with “RY”?
Anyway, Dad’s cake shows us
How awfully hard you tried
I’m still taken aback
By the long, winding words
You broke birthday up there
With two letters to go –oh –oh –oh
You shook Anna’s words up
And gave them a pour.
“Why did you put a dash?” poor Ame-nda implored.
You left lots of space there
Where Owen’s words could go –oh –oh –oh
Don’t keep me wondering here.
What’s that brown spot for?
I read the second one as "CAN'T RATE JENN." She's off the charts!
Some of them could have been so nice except for that crappy writing :(
Oooo ... words that end / begin / middledeedee in %*&)()&*^^$%^&%*()&^%#@%$^. My favorite! And in - gasp - jell! Almost as good as cake for breakfast!
The sixth cake down, the one with the white flowers on one half, is absolutely gorgeous. Too bad about the spacing, but I'd eat that in a heartbeat.
I like the idea of celebrating Bi nth day. It occurs twice a year, on any day you choose. Great excuse to have cake!
What is with the awful color on those roses?!
Thanks
as always
Jen
andJohn
A word of advice to you all from someone who works as a decorator in a grocery store: ask the DECORATOR to write on your cake and not the twit without an apron packaging buns, cutting bread or cleaning the floor. Just saying. I've seen many a lovely cake ruined because these bakery clerks take it upon themselves to write on cakes instead of asking the girl with the skills.
I think the third cake down is French. Que=That En=in Of course, it makes no more sense in French than it does in English, but there are probably some French wrecks -- somewhere, sometime.
And as another question, what's with the grey frosting? That's such a cheery Happy Birthday color.
@Mark, I thought you wrote your first message as it might appear on a cake, and laughed right along with you.
I have to confess I'm one of the "can't visualize space" people. I can't even put leftovers away in the correct size containers.
This is but one of the reasons why I don't decorate cakes . . .
@Mark, It was so much funnier before your correction - such a beautiful, subconscious mocking of the wreckerators.
Bahahaha Sharyn
Mark, I don't know if you really didn't mean to submit your first comment, but it's a whole lot funnier in that format; really matches the mood of these wrecks.
Also, although some of the choices on that heart cake are questionable, it's too bad the baker thought it was ok to split up "birthday"; it was the most promising of all the fonts on here and might have been ok otherwise (ok, not great).
I don't think it counts as a "wreck" if the purchaser messes up the writing, which nearly all of these look like. I recognize the work, mine looks like that too! It is hard to write with gel pens or icing tips!
For me true "wrecks" aren't open yet, and have the store label still. I suspect only the Happy Birthd-ay heart was photographed in the store.
This is what I do. That's why I DON'T GET PAID TO DECORATE CAKES. I don't know why these people do.
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It's unpossible that these are professionally baked. Simply unpossible.
What's with the blue boobies on the Brewers cake? Especially since they look particularly cold?
And the sixth cake looks like they used one of those 100 Piece Betty Crocker Cake Decorating Kits (as seen on TV!) to press in and pipe over the letters, and didn't realize that the line underneath was just a guide and not to be piped as well.
so snarkily perfect...
In defense of the drippy brown spot, it does appear to be on TOP of the plastic cover... Which really isn't any less disturbing, now that I think about it... (blinkblink)... Ew.
It's not the spacing of the letters on the first cake that bothers me,it's that blue pillow with worms leaking out of it......
@Mark: : - )
Thank you all for explaining the Que-enJ cake. For the life of me, I could not figure out what that was supposed to say. I was also wondering what that green outline of a turtle wearing a leash was about and only just realized it is supposed to be the strings on the balloons. Oy.
Those brown flowers look kinda like toasted marshmallows, mmmmm. Or, you know, like old, dead flowers. Does anyone have a guess at what that word is after "Birthday"? It looks like "Bronco__", but there seems to be at least two more letters after that. "Bronco-ers"? "Broncotts"? Aha! I bet they both got bronchitis on their birthday! So, it's Happy Birthday Bronchitis, Jeremy & Owen!
That brown spot is a drop of sweat from the brow of the person that expended SO much effort writing on that cake.....
Pra cti c e mak es pe rfec t...or...ma yb e n ot....
@ Shary n: sp p
Am I the only one who had to read the post twice before getting that Jen's spacing in the acknowledgments was on purpose? (crickets chirping) No? Ok then...
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Your comment for the 2nd to last cake gave me the giggles. Perfect amount of snark!
Melonie, those aren't boobies! I'm pretty sure that's an angry blue squid ejecting yellow ink.
The heart shaped cake is no mistake...it's a birthday cake for The Fonz - Ayyyyyyyy!
Uh, I think someone spilled alphabet soup all over your post.
okay so, there's a gloworm barfing yellow silly string, orange jello is now the decorator's icing of choice, they now make cakes out of head cheese and PP just happens to be directly adjacent to... well i heard those no name brand diapers were lacking in leak resistance but now we have proof. i'm just gonna quit while i'm ahead today, all these words are too hard to fit in this space anyway.
I want to reiterate that, coming from someone who has worked as a grocery store decorator, the decorator may have done a beautiful job on the cake, but it was just a lowly bakery clerk who wrote on it, and thereby ruined the cake. We seriously had a 50 year old woman with handwriting legitimately this atrocious. Some of the bakery clerks wish they had skills, or the decorator is busy or has left for the day, but I think these prove that you should always get the decorator to write on the cake as well.
excuse me while i pick my jaw up off the floor
Aw, man. That heart shaped white cake was really pretty before it got all HAPPY BIRTHD AY"ed all up in it.
I'm sad for the lily cake - so lovely, so wreaked - and I love "batpoop insane" as a description of these cakes :D
Orange neon frosting with brown sprinkles to enhance readability? Oh, sure!
I came here first because I'm about to pay my quarterly taxes and needed a laugh first. Mission accomplished! Thankfully, giggling is tax-free!
My little three year old just said "What is dat brown spot on dat cake? That D-gusting!!!!!" I think it fits!
These images never fail to make me laugh! And even though I have no earthly reason to cruise by the bakery section, I must admit to looking in the case occasionally, just on the off chance I'll see something this good (bad). Maybe all were produced on "take your five-year old to work day". Hand the kid an icing bag!
I can't even read cakes 3, 7, and 9...
Re #3: @drgns4vr Sadly, if it was French, it would still be a wreck, because que + en would be written qu'en :)
Re #7: seeing as the text was added after the candles, why turn the cake 90 degrees to write it?
I'm pretty sure it was the mention of Cong Rats that generated the Chuck E Cheese banner ad!
@Mark I, too, thought your first comment was irony and then you told on yourself. :)
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And, yet again, the comments lead me to find something my sleep deprived eyes missed: two pairs of teats with tassels on the first cake.
Please note: the "anuiversa-ry" cake has 3rd written properly. Wooo hooooooo
I too really liked that heart shaped cake. Really pretty..until someone decided to write on it lol. Then it just went to heck in a handbasket. Aw. Really are the wreckerators acting like kids who can't spell on these things or do they really want us to think they cannot spell to save their lives. And if so they should just leave town before the bridal season is upon us lol.
Dear Deli clerk/Produce Stocker/Bag Boy... You cannot write on the cakes! Stop volunteering!
This is totally random, but I'm a bio teacher and was recently showing my students some cool cell organelle cakes... I'd love a post with science cakes. Sweets, not wrecks. Just a request, obviously! :) I read this blog all the time for the giggles. I have some weird fish to submit... Someday.