Tuesday
Sep022014
Chevron One, Wrecked!
September 2, 2014 For her birthday Jamie's friend ordered her a cake with a pretty chevron pattern on it, knowing how much Jamie liked the design.
Now, for those of you NOT on Pinterest, a chevron pattern looks like this:
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I'm not sure which colors her friend requested, but I doubt it mattered anyway, since...
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...the baker just put the Chevron gas station logo on it, instead.
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Bwahahaa!
Thanks, Becky! That was a real gas!
And 10 geek points to anyone who caught my Stargate reference. ;)
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Reader Comments (52)
Ooh, so right. And yet so very wrong.
I LOVE it! I'm so tired of Chevron but this cake is hysterical!
I'm thinking the baker misunderstood and thought the cake was for Ethyl....
Brand-awareness cake
teaches us how to fill up.
Two birds, yet wrong stone.
Sung to "Jumpin' Jack Flash
She'd been born, so her friends ordered zig zag cake
And they howled when the shop brought the cake to them
'Cause it's a Wreck now, in fact, it's a gas
'Cause it's a Wreck. Chevron cakes, lass,
They're a gas, gas, gas.
Technically, they did what was asked....
Chevron two, mangled (for the Stargate reference).
I claim 20 geek points because I caught your Stargate reference on FRIDAY when you led into this post. (Go on, folks, look.)
But I understand if you don't--the very young do not always do what they are told. Indeed.
@Haiku Joy: that may be your best one ever!!!!
This deserves a Captain Picard face palm picture!
YAY!!! I got extra geek points, I was going to say something about Stargate but you already gave it away! LOL!
BWAHAHA! That is classic! I'm wearing a dress with chevrons on it now, so double the hilarity!
A friend needed sweets with a little swag
So to the bakery a cake to snag
Orded up somthin with a zippy zig zag
Baker said, "I don't mean to brag,
But I got this in the bag!"
The meaning of chevron tended to lag
Misinterpretation is really a drag
Making Cake Wrecks readers tongues to wag
Now the cake is just a running gag
Oh, dear. My friend Jami is getting married this month and is having a chevron pattern on her wedding cake. Should I warn her or just take my camera with me to the reception.
Surfing while eating breakfast. Thankfully, I read my other blog first. Because as hard as I laughed, there'd be yogurt and pineapple all over my iPad. Another screen saved!
Good lord, did the baker stop to think-gee why would ANYONE want a gas comapny logo on their cake?!
@mindy1: I have this great mental image of a Chevron corporate picnic displaying a cake that reads: "Congratulations on another great year! With Chevrons" and a midnight blue chevron pattern drawn over the writing. After enough time reading this blog, I'm starting to realize that almost nothing defies the imagination of Wreckers. ;)
@Tricia L:
Leave the gun--er, warning.
Take the camera.
=^-.-^=
Today was already a good day, and the Stargate reference just made it that much better. :D
Not only did I get the reference, but heard it in Walter's voice! ;-)
At least give some brownie points to the wreckerator for getting the order of the color stripes correct. You guys are a tough crowd to please!
When did it stop being called "zigzag"?
Yay geek points!!!
@:-| (Teal'c smiley is not amused.)
Look on the bright side, at least they spelled "Happy Birthday" correctly.
That is Hilarious!! And the bakery didn't even question WHY someone would want a gas station logo!!
Chevron 1 encoded...
Why is it that any time I want to read the comments on here I have to scroll through a bunch of songs and poems? Please knock it off.
So apparently there is one person not on Pinterest. Who would have guessed!
According to Wikipedia (the great and powerful), the chevron has only been in business flinging its coolness around since around the "vicinity" of 1800 BC, give or take a week or two...
To some, that may seem enough time to get it right. But guess what?Those folks would be wrong.
But, hey~ a (cakey) chevron by any other shape would taste as sweet... =^-.-^=
Being in th military AND a crafter, I can tell you a chevron is just 1 V shape. What was requested I would call zigzag
Technically it's still a chevron pattern too...
@mindy1, you would be surprised! People are into a lot of weird stuff. Consider how people actually pay money to advertise for corporations for free by buying logowear or getting logos tattooed on their bodies! (Yes, I used to be the type to ask people how much a company was paying them to wear their shirt!) I have seen poorly rendered Nike swooshes and all kinds of other corporate branding on cakes so why not Chevron?
Also, once again, Pinterest is wrong. Those are indeed zig-zags, not really a chevron pattern. Of course, if the customer had asked for a "zig zag" cake, they probably would have gotten the logo for Zig Zag rolling papers, which would actually kind of make sense as the desire to eat cake often goes along with, well, you know.
Why do I get the feeling the poor baker was *sure* they got this one right.
I'm with Verity on this one, though.
But at least the baker spelled "CHEVRON" correctly.
So, I ordered a cake last week and asked that it say, "Congratulations Imogene." I had to correct the spelling of "Congratulations" when they wrote it down. I'm very disappointed to say that today I picked up my cake and both "congratulations" and "Imogene" were spelled correctly. No Cake Wrecks fame for me!
Hey WTF (the commenter), people come here to let their creativity flow in the comment section (that's pretty much the entire purpose of the comments section on this blog). If you don't like it, you don't have to read it. I hope, however, that you will stay, read the comments, sing along to the songs, and start to enjoy yourself. Have a nice day!
And @Haiku Joy - you have truly outdone yourself today. Well written!
To "WTF":
The "poems" are ALSO comments.
(Geek points if you get the Hitch-hiker's reference :-P)
I'd say this cake is... (wait for it) SO SO ! (ha ha ha!)
[What, nobody actually got that joke..?]
I suspect that if someone had actually ORDERED the Chevron logo (like, for an office party), it wouldn't have turned out as well as that one did.
WTF has a point, you know. ....................Alright, so I didn't say that I know what it IS, but I know what my Mom used to say whenever someone seemed to have gotten up on the wrong side of the crib: "Well, don't be too hard on him/her/them (whomever); maybe his/her/their (whomever's) feet hurt."
(That *could* conceiveably make a person feel grumpy, grouchy, crabby, or-- Well, pick your own dwarf-I don't have all day. And my feet hurt.) =^-.-^=
Lol I so love reading the comments after the wreckage. It helps me clear my mind of yesterdays horrors hehe. Keep on wrecking and making me giggle with glee :D
So close and yet, completely wrong.
@AA, Perhaps WTF needs to be strapped into a Poetry Appreciation Chair? ;)
It worries me that some people are being forced at gunpoint to read the comments on this blog. That's not right. John (thoj), could you look into this?
@WTF: Your opinion has been noted. Thank you for your contribution. That having been said, most of us love the poems, songs, geek references, etc., in the comments section, so if you don't agree, this may not be the place for you. I'm not saying we'll kick you out, just . . . you may not like the general atmosphere here. Thanks for sharing!
I seriously think I'm gonna start buying stuff for my friends with the chevron logo on it!!! I'm so tired of the trend & refuse to wear anything with the pattern on there as a not so silent protest. Yes chevron print not everyone loves you!!! Although I still fuel up at the chevron station lol ;-)
How many geek points do I get for being disappointed to scroll down and NOT see anything Stargate? :)
This reminds me of a logo near-disaster from when I was a cake decorator. My boss told me someone had ordered a DOW (as in DOW Chemical) logo on a cake. But when I found out who ordered it- a woman who led some kind of Eastern philosophy study group- I realized she must have meant Tao! Fortunately I figured it out in time and double-checked the order with the client, thus averting what might have been a disaster (or what could have been one of the client's funniest experiences! :) )
That is funny.
Hi everyone! It's me... Birthday Girl Jamie. My poor friend was devistated when she saw the cake but didn't have time to wait for a new one. When I saw it, I had the best laugh. I think I loved the cake even more because it was such a wreck. Still makes me happy just to think about the sweet thoughts of me on my birthday and that it gave everyone a good laugh. 😆