Verbatim Cake Fail

May 4th, 2008

Submitted by Karen

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64 Responses to Verbatim Cake Fail

  1. Sean on May 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Ha! I love it!

    • HannaH on October 22nd, 2011 at 1:22 pm

      ummm….DUH!…

  2. Volpeculus on May 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    That is just made of epic fail. Thank you, sir.

  3. Jen on May 4th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Uh, no, that was clearly intentional. Epic fail to you, good friend, for being a no-fun grammar fiend who cannot even appreciate irony.

    If you were pointing out the “Birthday’s,” though, I could forgive you.

    • Nigerchichi on December 5th, 2011 at 12:40 pm

      You fucking Grammer nazi!!

      • Sam on January 10th, 2012 at 8:31 am

        *grammar

  4. Tom on May 4th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    BAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Someone was really tired and not paying attention…

  5. Volpeculus on May 4th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

    @Jen:
    So the baker wrote a paragraph of nonsense for the sake of postmodern irony? Have you missed the point of this entire blog? Epic fail to you, my good lady, for being so utterly dense and pretentious.

  6. Alex on May 4th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    SOOOO HILARIOUS!!
    that is one epically failing icer.
    poo on you guys who dont think this is a fail.

  7. Octane on May 5th, 2008 at 5:53 am

    I love ALL of it!

  8. Jen on May 5th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    Oh man. Depressing that someone did all this work without thinking AT ALL about what he/she was doing!

  9. Anonymous on May 6th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    wow best one i’ve seen so far…

  10. lastletterwriter on May 7th, 2008 at 1:15 am

    hahahah!! best cake ever.

  11. Warner on May 8th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    A nice added touch is “Birthday’s”

  12. tayy on May 11th, 2008 at 7:21 am

    i must agree, this one is the best that i’ve seen :D

  13. Anonymous on May 14th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Something like this actually happened to a friend of mine.
    She got a cake for someone and said they wanted it to say “Get Well [person's name]”

    Well they only put “Well [person's name]”
    *facepalm*

    So a tip, don’t buy cakes from Wal-mart lol.

  14. Dan on May 15th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    See, this is either an epic fail or an intentional joke by the baker. Either way it’s hilarious.

    • mik on August 30th, 2009 at 10:10 pm

      Intentional joke? If it was (which I doubt), I wouldn’t pay for the cake…I think we’re underestimating the stupidity of said baker.

  15. Anonymous on May 16th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    I love how “Nov. and Dec.” is abbreviated in the abbreviation instructions. :D

  16. M on May 16th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    I guess they didn’t need to abbreviate, after all.

  17. Caitlin on May 19th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    This is by far the best one. You’d have to be so out of it to make this mistake! I would love to someday receive a birthday cake similar to this one.

  18. Vander Kitten on May 19th, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    Oh lovely. I love it. Totally made my Monday.

  19. Ms. Rosenbaum on May 21st, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    My favorite part of all of this is that it has been photographed on a birthday themed tablecloth – THEY USED IT!

    Party planning fail.

  20. emily on June 1st, 2008 at 6:04 pm

    Yeah, this reminds me of a cake we had made for our volleyball team end-of-year party.
    We wanted it to say ‘ace’ on it, which is a totally legit volleyball term, but the icer put ‘face’ on our cake.

    It was fabulous. I would not oppose to eating a cake mistake, haha. It makes it so much more delicious.

  21. Anna on June 1st, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    One year my boyfriend went to DQ to get me a birthday cake.. he wanted it to say “Happy Birthday Anna” in red.

    They wrote “Happy Birthday Red” and then “fixed” it by covering the mistake with chocolate.

    …fail.

  22. Karen on June 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    So this was my addition, and yes we did use the cake and everyone loved it. It was the funniest thing EVER!

  23. roflcopter on June 3rd, 2008 at 11:13 am

    lawlawlawlawlawlawlawlawlawlawlwal cake

    lawlawlawlawlawlawlawlawlawlawl

  24. Jon on June 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    If your job is decorating cakes at Wal-Mart, chances are pretty high that you don’t know much English. The person probably just copied down the form without having any understanding of what it really said.

  25. Keelhaul on June 11th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    Hey meester….I gots jor cakes ready for to be peeked up now…jes???

    • HaulAss on August 17th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

      I peeked up your wife…she’s happy now.

    • D / DM on July 5th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

      “This cake isn’t supposed to say this.”

      “Jes, is cake! You like!”

      “No, no. The writing on the cake, it’s wrong.”

      “Jes, I say that! Is writing on cake! You like!”

  26. daddy00 on June 13th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    We get cakes at least once a month at my office for some random reason, and English is not the native language of the ladies at the Publix bakery. We constantly have to tell them how to spell things like “Kate” and “Bobby”, but have never had something so ridiculous as this. I am jealous of how epic this failure is. I wish I had been the person to have brought it back to my office. I know some of the people here wouldn’t get it anyway.

  27. Sçium on June 15th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Is there any deeper meaning for this than gibberish? Am I missing something?

  28. Vickie on June 16th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Hahahahaha! I needed a laugh. Thank you so much! I think the people who got the cake would have loved it, too.

  29. Jevanyn on June 24th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    From Tom:
    “BAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Someone was really tired and not paying attention…”

    … but they were even more tired by the time they were done. Did they spell abbreviate right on the first try? ROFL

  30. pannonica on July 1st, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    That’s certainly the icing on the cake.

    Obviously, the decorator knew exactly what he or she was doing and was pointing out the customer’s shortcomings; the apostrophe must have been in the original too. After all,”The customer is always right.”

    My only question is, did the icer get iced?

  31. failshirts on July 7th, 2008 at 7:14 am

    That is cake-tastic!
    .
    Funny shirts that smell like your mom… http://www.FAILshirts.com
    .

  32. j-rod on August 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    uh that cake is f*in ugly the frosting looks like baby shit.

  33. Ms Lucia on September 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    This is the first time, nor will I doubt it be the last! You can check out more mistakes here:

    http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/caketalk.asp

  34. Ms Lucia on September 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    Oops I meant NOT the first time.

  35. baracuuda68 on September 13th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    I think that they should have abbreviated abbreviate.

  36. drill instructor on October 16th, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    Companies usually celebrate birthdays every month. Lumping all of november and december birthdays? and given the size of the cake (recession?) – I would have to say that they’re working for a small cheap-ass company.

  37. Anonymous on November 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    LOL
    Did the person write the instructions on the cake?
    Rofl

  38. emily browning on December 14th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    this, my dear friends, is amazing. it has just made my day.

  39. FailBloke on January 1st, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    I get it now.. what a silly baker.
    Lol.
    For those who don’t understand, let’s put it in context:
    The man wants a cake for his friends’ birthdays, which are in November and December. He gave a note to his baker (who fails) which said:
    “Happy November & December Birthdays” and then added a note to the baker, at the bottom, which read, “Abbreviate Nov. & Dec. if you need to”
    The baker iced that into the cake.
    What is the world coming to?

  40. Anonymous on February 15th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    hey, if it was my cake i’d be happy… more icing!!!

    • D / DM on July 5th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

      Yeah, but it’s red icing, which tastes like ass.

  41. LKM on August 9th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Ahhhh, the sweet chocolatey taste of epic fail…

  42. love on October 16th, 2009 at 2:36 am

    bless this post with love,peace,respect and success.

    just let love be

  43. sons of shadows on October 29th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    i dont understand part of this but it is funny. and it was made to look like accentual but it wasnt.

  44. Sara on November 7th, 2009 at 9:06 pm

    HAHA! I just got it!

  45. Jess on November 14th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    omg, thats fuckin awesome

  46. Joanna on November 19th, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    Amazing… Why don’t these people get hit by cars more often??

  47. Anonymous on December 25th, 2009 at 11:33 pm

    What were they doing, reading a paper tht told them what to write and the were tired or drunk????

  48. Bob on December 27th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    It wasn’t intentional. Someone just copied the instructions they had verbatim. It is not as difficult to do something like this as it may seem, especially if someone is tired, day-dreaming, or just not paying attention. After you have done essentially the same task several thousand times in the same day it can become easy to lose concentration too.

    The apostrophe in “birthday’s” was put there by the customer; and that is not as bad a mistake in this context as some pedants may argue it is.

  49. ruffian on April 27th, 2010 at 7:13 am

    I really dont know what to say becides some one needs to be shot…lol

  50. Chris on May 2nd, 2010 at 3:59 am

    Probably some smart ass teenager working at the bakery thought it would be funny.

  51. Anonymous on May 18th, 2010 at 7:01 am

    @Chris
    Oh hey Chris is back have you gone back and looked at some of the other coments you left earlyer one some of the other pictures?

  52. ruffian on May 18th, 2010 at 7:04 am

    @Bob
    Really Bob you had to go into some big explination about what happend like the whole world gives a fuck? really man!! Bob dont be that guy Fucker

  53. çiçek on October 21st, 2010 at 2:45 am

    Probably some smart ass teenager working at the bakery thought it would be funny.

    Thanks admin…

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  55. Pad on July 10th, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    brilliant FAIL. well it was what she wanted on the cake so funny

  56. Pad on July 10th, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    BOB its OK. time to change the medication, gee you dont have to sprout off. we know why it is funny and can figure it out ourselves. mmmmmmmmmm have you done this bob this isn’t your on is it?

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