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

[DVCLiz]

Thanks, ignorant is always better than stupid.

You're welcome!

 

[disney kid at heart]

I Needed That Laugh!!!!!! Thanks

 

[MosMom]

The original joke had nothing about how the Walmart clerk spoke. Someone took the joke and added in the ebonics so yeah, someone made it racist. It is funny though and would be funnier passed on in the original form.

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

 

[meandtheguys2]

Cute cake. But I like the snopes version better.

Rednecks do not talk anything like that. I live here, I know them, and I know.

That said the only time I have ever heard the language structure in the original email is when someone is portraying an unlearned black person. I've never heard this in person. This is how the media...yes, I was born back when they were showing the OLD Bugs Bunnies...anyway, how the media portrays this part of society.

 

[MareQ]

That's not the way any other race talks where I live. And actually, it's not really the way black people talk, either, but it sure sounds like the way a white person would make up a black person's speech

............

That's not something Jeff Foxworthy ever used in his comedy - it's the way people write and mock when they want to sound like an uneducated black person.

There's no "looking for it to be racist" at all - it just is.

Just because nobody in your area speaks like that doesn't make it the absolute truth. People up here in New Jersey - of ALL BACKGROUNDS - do speak like that... It's more of a regional style of speech than a "racial" style.

I am sorry that a few here automatically jumped on the bandwagon thinking that "stupid speech" could ONLY be a dig at an African American.

 

[MosMom]

If the story had originally been written that way...then yes, it is possible that a white person was on the other end of the phone. However, someone added that in. Thinking it would be funnier to make it sound stereotypical of ebonics.

This is not the OP's fault. For the most part it is hilarious. Being a cake decorator, I loved it.

 

[meandtheguys2]

Wow, I'd never have thought the MOV would have better speech patterns than NJ! Who'd have thought it?

If the ONLY place you'd encountered those speech patterns was from the media portraying that population, that is the assumption that would be made. While I am embarrassed that this thought pattern is based on tv and literature, that is the way it is. The same would go for any sort of language pattern I'd not encountered on my own.

eta: This is not to say I think the OP is a racist or anything like!

 

[DVCLiz]

Just because nobody in your area speaks like that doesn't make it the absolute truth. People up here in New Jersey - of ALL BACKGROUNDS - do speak like that... It's more of a regional style of speech than a "racial" style.

I am sorry that a few here automatically jumped on the bandwagon thinking that "stupid speech" could ONLY be a dig at an African American.

Thanks, MareQ, for broadening my knowledge of cultural speech patterns - I was ignorant of that!!! (I'm being funny here, not sarcastic!)

MosMom and meandtheguys2 who posted above me also thought it was black speech, so I still think more people would see it as based on black speech patterns.

 

[golfgal]

Lighten up people! EVERYONE gets made fun of because of speech patterns. We hear it all the time in Minnesota. Get a southerner here and same thing. The coasts have their own deal, then you have Boston--what is up with the missing R's there???

 

[wvjules]

Can we get back to funny cakes!?!?!?!?

 

[MareQ]

Wow, I'd never have thought the MOV would have better speech patterns than NJ! Who'd have thought it?

If the ONLY place you'd encountered those speech patterns was from the media portraying that population, that is the assumption that would be made. While I am embarrassed that this thought pattern is based on tv and literature, that is the way it is. The same would go for any sort of language pattern I'd not encountered on my own.

eta: This is not to say I think the OP is a racist or anything like!

Not everybody in NJ speaks like that.... Most people CHOOSE to speak "properly". But that type of speech is a choice It's what some of the young people today thinks is a cool way to speak, it's a trend, a way to sound tough and fit in with crowds. Heck - I had to listen to a co-worker on the phone with her mother talking about her "baby daddy". Her "baby daddy" is her husband of 20 years and her "baby" is 10. When she hangs up the phone she reverts back to "normal" speech. (And she is 1/2 Hispanic and 1/2 "European")

Much like Southern speech patterns. Ie Paula Deen - not every southerner speaks like that. And the people that do pepper their speech with words like ain't, tain't, ya'll etc aren't poor, black and uneducated. It's just the way they speak in certain areas.

 

[MyGoofy26]

Too funny.

I need to find the picture, but a couple years ago my mom and aunt ordered a cake for my grandma's birthday. They asked them to write, "Happy Birthday Mom" on it. Well, I guess even some adults still get confused on their cursive m's and n's because the cake we got said, "Happy Birthday Mon" on it.

There was no way to look at that cake without reading it in a bad Jamaican accent.

 

[meandtheguys2]

Not everybody in NJ speaks like that.... Most people CHOOSE to speak "properly". But that type of speech is a choice It's what some of the young people today thinks is a cool way to speak, it's a trend, a way to sound tough and fit in with crowds. Heck - I had to listen to a co-worker on the phone with her mother talking about her "baby daddy". Her "baby daddy" is her husband of 20 years and her "baby" is 10. When she hangs up the phone she reverts back to "normal" speech. (And she is 1/2 Hispanic and 1/2 "European")

Much like Southern speech patterns. Ie Paula Deen - not every southerner speaks like that. And the people that do pepper their speech with words like ain't, tain't, ya'll etc aren't poor, black and uneducated. It's just the way they speak in certain areas.

LOL, thank you for taking that with the humor intended!

I really had no clue that people talked like that! To be clear, I thought it was all a rude stereotype used by the media. And One, I'd only seen attributed to one segment of the population.

eta: It is really hard to write in a way that no one will take offense where it is not meant!

 

[crashbb]

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.

To be fair - I spell it "mum" not "mom" (though the pronunciation is also a bit different). It is possible that they were thinking of that. It is also possible that they were less than smart!

 

[robinb]

If the story had originally been written that way...then yes, it is possible that a white person was on the other end of the phone. However, someone added that in. Thinking it would be funnier to make it sound stereotypical of ebonics.

This is not the OP's fault. For the most part it is hilarious. Being a cake decorator, I loved it.

Yes, that was my point from the start, but I was dancing around the work "Ebonics". Plenty of people around the country say "dis", "dese", "dose" and "dat". Heck, half the population in Chicago can's say the word "this"! The incorrect conjugation of the verb "to be" is a big giveaway for me. To make matters more lame, it's also clear to me that the person who originally "imagined" the conversation didn't speak in an Ebonics dialect while trying to make it appear that the Wal*Mart employee did! The use of the conjugation of "he be, she be, it be" is used when events occur habitually or repeatedly like "She be working all the time" or sometime this winter in Wisconsin "It be snowing". Since Wal*Mart's existence is NOT an event a Ebonics speaker would have used the correct conjugation of "This is Wal*Mart".

And now class, your Ebonics lesson is over .

 

[goofy's friends]

I really doubt that . I saw this joke on an email a long time ago.

it did happen a long time ago. You don't have to believe me....
My DH works where it happened.

 

[Cup Cake]

I'm not sure which is funnier, the messed up cakes, or the bickering over nothing. Either way continue. I needed a good laugh.

 

[CJBaby]

My sister got flowers from her DH once, the card read:

Happy Anniversary

Love,

Math

So sorry to all of you who love math. It looks like it's taken!

I need to find the picture, but a couple years ago my mom and aunt ordered a cake for my grandma's birthday. They asked them to write, "Happy Birthday Mom" on it. Well, I guess even some adults still get confused on their cursive m's and n's because the cake we got said, "Happy Birthday Mon" on it. :

OMG! "Hey Grammy, Happy Birthday, Mon!"

 

[OK!]

You know I have to say it because in a twisted way I find it ironically amusing. The only person here who could be considered logically, racist is yourself. See, no one else put a specific race to that speech pattern, but your mind automatically drew a paralell between it and a specific race.

The only person assuming that there is any parallel between a given race and this speech - would be you.

(Imagine the above in my best Vulcan)

Not true. The first thing I said after I laughed at the picture of the cake was, "Wow, that's racist."

 

[Nikel]

To be fair - I spell it "mum" not "mom" (though the pronunciation is also a bit different). It is possible that they were thinking of that. It is also possible that they were less than smart!

Maybe. Mum isn't really common in East TN though.