Originally published at: Costco followed cake instructions a little too literally — check out the amusing result | Boing Boing
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Well, the pick-up date was April 1st… 
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how is this a cake fail. i mean, you still get cake…
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Seems like the problem wasn’t that they were too literal, but that they completely ignored the written instructions in favor of the picture… I wonder if that was on purpose.
I don’t see that at all—they followed the written instructions to the letter, to draw the decoration of a cake with no decoration.
It’s been years since I visited it but back in the simpler lolcat days this used to be one of my favorite sites: https://www.cakewrecks.com/
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You don’t necessarily need to visit cakewrecks, we have a thread for that!
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reminds me of the cake where they wanted an edible printed photograph on top of it so they supplied a USB drive with the order, and they cake they got had a hand-drawn in icing artist’s interpretation of the USB drive
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I’m going with the white piping on the edges was already there and they weren’t going to scape it off. Do they even have instore bakeries ?
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Y’see, where they went wrong was using the word “perimeter”. Surly wage-slaves will ignore instructions they don’t understand. “Edges” might have had a better chance.
This looks like a positive thing to me. Are American peons reaching the levels of incalcitrance of British ones?
All of our nearest Costcos have in-store bakeries. SE Michigan for reference.
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I don’t know about you but I had a ball at Diane’s 35th birthday and underline ball I don’t know why this is so hard.
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Yeah – they even copied the bad perspective correctly!
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Pretty sure a lot of these are due to the fact that the staff might have limited English proficiency, especially in writing. I was always explaining orders to our cake decorator when I worked in the bakery, she understood spoken English much better than written.
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[Mitch Hedberg voice] “…Sorry for the convenience”
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