Jan 26 2009Delicious Failure: A Cake Printing Error
Chalk it up as another case of printing failure.
Can you guess what happened? Apparently the printing process is mostly automatic and is printed directly from the website in edible ink. The designer didn't catch it and they tried to sell it to the purchaser.
Ha, they still tried to sell it! That's great. I don't know about you, but if I was the buyer I would have demanded several more icing flowers.
e-mail cake [flickr]
Thanks to Manwai, who once used a scanner and color printer to manufacture fake Whopper coupons and ate free for a month. Now I want some nuggets.
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Reader Comments
1. Cunt - January 26, 2009 2:27 PM
SHIT FIRST FASHJFOHSODJFHNGSDS
2. D.K - January 26, 2009 2:29 PM
I returned a cake printer I got for kwanzaa because it was in english
3. Gizmoduck - January 26, 2009 2:32 PM
ahah oh wow. thats adorable
4. Daisy (TRO) - January 26, 2009 2:33 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was trying to help a neighbor pay off their mortgage. The lender agreed to give up toe mortgage in exchange for Baja's hand in marriage. Max didn't want to let Baja marry him, so he posed as Baja at the wedding ceremony, keeping up the ruse until Barnaby surrendered control of the title to the dwelling.
When Barnaby found out he was tricked, he unleashed the boogeymen on the neighborhood in an attempt to extract revenge.
5. naas - January 26, 2009 2:38 PM
God dammit I love reading what Daisy has to say!!!
6. Bell Dandy - January 26, 2009 2:40 PM
Sucks for Aunt Elsa, she couldn't get to read what the message was supposed to say.
It's certainly French. So there's only three possible message here, judging from what the script looks like.
1. Happy Birthday Aunt Elsa. Just a reminder, you're getting fat every year.
2. Happy Birthday Aunt Elsa. Where the hell did the french toast go?
3.Happy Birthday Aunt Elsa. Did you watch The Price is Right? Yeah, the flatscreen TV your wanted cost more than your freakin' life. Dream on.
Oh boy, either her niece is so fed up of her bullcrap or I just have to lay low on the Bacon roll.
7. D.K - January 26, 2009 2:42 PM
#6 heheh :)
I'm going to sleep now goodnight!
8. Thumperchica - January 26, 2009 2:58 PM
I can't believe they still tried to sell that bullshit... although I do know a few people that would enjoy their cake more with the misprint...
9. jean - January 26, 2009 3:05 PM
It's not french...it's italian with a little bit of friulano, an italian dialect that's supposed to be a language itself...W TRIESTE, FURLAN VA A CIAPARLO IN...!!
10. Mr. Man - January 26, 2009 3:05 PM
to hell with the vatican
11. Pat - January 26, 2009 3:09 PM
The only thing that would have been better is if there had been an advertisement at the bottom. Like: "Check the weather 24/7 with AOL homepage."
12. BK - January 26, 2009 3:22 PM
Who buy's a cake for their AUNT?
It probably reads: Happy Birthday to Aunt Elsa, whose ugly ass couldn't have any kids of her own to buy her a f***ed up cake.
13. Thumperchica - January 26, 2009 3:28 PM
Also, I'm sleepy, I DECLARE NAP TIME!
This is so what I get for being an insomniac... now I want to go hide under my desk for a few hours... MEH!
14. catch22 - January 26, 2009 3:37 PM
...if it was blue frosting it would be a blue screen of death..... if i was the buyer id probly take it.... id insist on getting my correct cake in addition, but id take it....
....mmmm error cake
15. Cameron - January 26, 2009 5:09 PM
Epic FAIL!
Awethumb.
16. intermission - January 26, 2009 10:09 PM
id ask 50% off and wtf why are they so cheap with the icing flowers???
17. Peregrinus - January 27, 2009 1:34 AM
The cake is a lie!!!
18. Dizzyratt - February 21, 2009 10:02 AM
After reading the cake and being a programmer it is not the addy from a webpage but it is a line of code that didn't get read by the program and came out as text on the cake. To be more exact it was written by a n00b in C# and to fix it he should have just *// commented the lines out //* that were not supposed to show. or {fixed the broken code.}
P.S. the reason i referred to the programmer as a n00b is because C# is free to learn and free to use the compiler and has a dummy book. If it were a vet he would have wrote it in java.
C# = C Sharp