Walmart Cake....Keep in mind this actually happened!

[Nikel]

A couple of years ago, after a cake incident in which my dh demonstrated just why his nickname was "Phil the Spill," we made an emergency run by Kroger on the way to mil's birthday party. (My bil already thinks I'm a terrible wife, so I couldn't show up sans cake after volunteering to make one, nor could I show up with the smashed cake.) Since we were very short on time, we just picked a pre-made cake and asked to have "Happy Birthday Mom" written on it. The bakery person asked me how I wanted "mom" spelled.

 

[robinb]

On the Snopes website it doesn't have the Walmart employee speaking.

That's because a little bit of imaginary conversation makes the joke email all that more believable .

I edited out all the question marks to make it easier to read:

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Okay, so this is how I imagine this conversation went:

Walmart Employee: 'Hello 'dis be Walmarts, how can I heps you?'

Customer: ' I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.'

Walmart Employee: 'Whatcha want on dis cake?'

[/FONT]momof3disneyholics: The cake is very funny, but the imaginary conversation is downright offensive. I know you to be a nice and fair person, so I'm sure you just were not thinking when you cut and paste'd the email message. You do not strike me as the kind of person who would find "dis be Walmarts" to be very funny.

 

[DISshopkeeper]

That is just tooooo funny!

Several years ago I was involved with a local production of "Gypsy". The director ordered a cake for the cast party that was to say "Congratulations Cast of Gypsy!" Imagine our surprise when we opened the box to find a cake that said "Congratulations Castazipsy!"

And the Snopes link had me roaring!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

[FONT=&quot][/FONT]momof3disneyholics: The cake is very funny, but the imaginary conversation is downright offensive. I know you to be a nice and fair person, so I'm sure you just were not thinking when you cut and paste'd the email message. You do not strike me as the kind of person who would find "dis be Walmarts" to be very funny.

She's talking about the type of person who, not only wrote the directions given verbally on the cake, but also wrote "underneath" as "under neat". I think it's fair to assume that they wouldn't have the best grammar. I don't know why you're so outraged. If I made a funny mistake like that, I would expect to be made fun of.

 

[robinb]

She's talking about the type of person who, not only wrote the directions given verbally on the cake, but also wrote "underneath" as "under neat". I think it's fair to assume that they wouldn't have the best grammar. I don't know why you're so outraged. If I made a funny mistake like that, I would expect to be made fun of.

The mistake of adding "under neat" was funny and I have no problem with us making fun of the mistake. However, we really don't know why those words ended up on the cake. Maybe it was the cake buyer who said "underneath" with a clipped ending. Maybe the Wal*Mart employee stupidly added the instructional words in a way that made sense to him or her. Maybe it was simply a bad cell phone connection and things got garbled. Whatever the reason for the mistake, I don't think it's fair to assume anything about how the person who took the order would speak. Which was why the Snopes version of the story was so much better.

 

[IWAS]

thanks for the laugh,

I once spelled birthday wrong on a cake for my grandma, spelled it birtday not very funny but we got a good laugh out of it

 

[MosMom]

I do cakes and got an order for someone's 60th birthday. When she called she said "Sixty-ITH" and I thought she said "sixty-fifth". I added 5 years to the poor guy. Luckily, they loved the cake and laughed at the age. I've since learned to double check all information given and respond to the number like "So sixty-five as in SIX FIVE".

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

The mistake of adding "under neat" was funny and I have no problem with us making fun of the mistake. However, we really don't know why those words ended up on the cake. Maybe it was the cake buyer who said "underneath" with a clipped ending. Maybe the Wal*Mart employee stupidly added the instructional words in a way that made sense to him or her. Maybe it was simply a bad cell phone connection and things got garbled. Whatever the reason for the mistake, I don't think it's fair to assume anything about how the person who took the order would speak. Which was why the Snopes version of the story was so much better.

I'm sorry but I assume that anyone who would actually write "under neat" on a cake without questioning it or double checking is a few hammers short of a bag. It is funny and I think that the OP is believable. Sorry that it offends you but I'm still going to laugh.

 

[Pirate Me]

A friend ordered a cake for her son's birthday party. It was a SpongeBob and Patrick themed cake. She told the bakery to make a cake that said Happy Birthday and to put Spongebob and Patrick on either side of the name. We picked up the cake on the day of his birthday and when opening it, we read it and it said "Happy Birthday Patrick!" Poor boy's name was Alex.

 

[Kim&Chris]

The mistake of adding "under neat" was funny and I have no problem with us making fun of the mistake. However, we really don't know why those words ended up on the cake. Maybe it was the cake buyer who said "underneath" with a clipped ending. Maybe the Wal*Mart employee stupidly added the instructional words in a way that made sense to him or her. Maybe it was simply a bad cell phone connection and things got garbled. Whatever the reason for the mistake, I don't think it's fair to assume anything about how the person who took the order would speak. Which was why the Snopes version of the story was so much better.

That's an awful lot of "maybe's".

Gotta agree with Mr & Mrs Smith....this employee must have been a bottle short of a six pack!

 

[robinb]

It is funny and I think that the OP is believable.

The OP is believable, but it didn't happen to her. She said it came in a joke email from someone else. That email is so famous that it even showed up on Snopes minus the offensive language:
http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/caketalk.asp

I agree that the cake and the story are funny but the language is NOT.

 

[rainy~daze]

I think that is hysterical! I would have to take the cake home, too, to be able to show everyone or else no one would believe it.

I have to ask though, what exactly is the offensive language from the imaginary conversation? Maybe I just don't see it, because I have a cousin who talks exactly like that and does so with a Rocky Balboa accent. We quite frequently mimic him, he knows he talks like that and he knows it makes him sound not so smart. I just pictured him being the walmart employee and it made me laugh. I wonder if he got a job a walmart?

 

[RitaZ.]

A friend ordered a cake for her son's birthday party. It was a SpongeBob and Patrick themed cake. She told the bakery to make a cake that said Happy Birthday and to put Spongebob and Patrick on either side of the name. We picked up the cake on the day of his birthday and when opening it, we read it and it said "Happy Birthday Patrick!" Poor boy's name was Alex.

 

[fltwinmom]

You mean they found an actual EMPLOYEE at WALMART??

 

[laurie31]

This reminds me of what happened to me when I ordered a cake for the cast of our summer Children's Theater last year. They were doing a children's adaptation of The Wizard of Oz called "The Magical Land of Oz."

I ordered the cake. I said I wanted it to say, "We're off to see the Wizard" across the top and "The Magical Land of Oz" across the bottom, and I wanted a yellow brick road going across the middle of the cake. I would have made it myself, but I didn't have time. I ordered from Sam's as I needed a very large cake - it was for the whole cast for their last performance.

The morning I was to pick up the cake, I got a phone call from the bakery. The lady asked what color I wanted the yellow brick road. Apparently I hadn't specified that in the directions. I said, "The YELLOW brick road?" but it was totally lost on her, so I finally said, trying very hard not to sound condescending, "I would like the yellow brick road to be yellow." Still the woman never got it, and happily replied, "Okay!"

THIS is what I got when I picked up the cake!

They LABELED the yellow brick road!

I did check it when I picked it up, but I was so dumbstruck I didn't know what to do. DH was angry that I hadn't made them take off the words and redo it, but I didn't have time for that, and so I ran to the store, bought a tube of green icing, and added the words "Follow the" so it looked less stupid

I normally make my own cakes, but next time I place an order I will try to be very careful about my instructions!

 

[BabyPiglet]

I happen to be a newly employed cashier at Wal*Mart and found that absolutely hilarious. I laughed for 5 minutes straight!

 

[rie'smom]

As written the joke seems racist. Wouldn't it be just as funny if "Walmart Employee" spoke correctly but just didn't get it?

Racist? I know people from all parts of the country who don't pronounce "th". Why is this racist?

OP, thanks for the laugh!

 

[goofy's friends]

I happen to know the person that ordered that cake and got this e-mail when it first happened! It' s still funny! They went ahead and took it to the party because it got a great laugh!! And...the conversation wasn't with the original e-mail and the person that ordered it doesn't talk that way, BUT it is a cultural way of talking where they are from.

 

[kangareaux]

I don't think it is racist - have you ever called a Walmart? ALL of their employees - regarless of race - speak that way it seems!

Although, I'm not sure some of our wal-mart employees are human....maybe it IS racism since i'm not really sure they belong to the HUMAN race.

Maybe that's how the scientologists are going to take over....wal-mart employees are really scientologist aliens. They're disquised as wal-mart employees so nobody suspects anything.

 

[LanaJayne]

Once, when my neighbor had a birthday party for her 1 year old son, she ordered a cake and wanted the writing to be in blue. When she called in the order she said,
"Please write on the cake
Happy 1st Birthday, John, in blue"
When she picked up the cake this is exactly what it said:
Happy 1st Birthday
John in Blue