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  1. PhilWal says:

    Underneat that,
    Comments

  2. Mina says:

    Its lolarious, the person couldnt even spell underneath!

  3. pacc says:

    this is terrible! how stupid can you get?

  4. Kapernikus says:

    HAHA! That’s like repeating “Repeat after me”

  5. tron says:

    OK, so even if it said “Underneath,” I don’t understand what they are trying to say. Underneath what? Where’s Suzanne going!?!?! I’m scared.

    • k-tastrophe says:

      This is what happens when we let immigrants do things.

    • Yarg says:

      The person ordering the cake wrote what she wanted on a piece of paper, and gave it to the cake decorator. The “underneat that” was a direction to put “we will miss you” under “best wishes Suzanne”.

      Literal retards are literal.

    • MrBlastotron says:

      Pretty sure it was a straight up failure of using the correct word even. I think it’s supposed to be “Understand that we will miss you.” But who knows.

    • StephieC says:

      hahaha
      that’s exactly what i was wondering

    • fexy says:

      Tron, I love you~ so I baked you a pony xx

    • Anthony says:

      So a woman calls a pastry shop and says, “I want a cake saying, ‘Best Wishes, Suzanne’, and underneath that put ‘we will miss you’” and thus the above disaster

  6. NorthAveBoy says:

    Its like, the person writing on the cakes was sorta in-the-zone, just churning out cake lettering, and forgot to switch on cognitive reasoning to realize that “Underneath that” was an instruction for her, not text.

    Alternatively, maybe the person who wrote the instructions sucked at punctuation and literally wrote “”best wishes susan… underneath that… we will miss you”"
    and didn’t break the quotation marks in the middle.

    • Toris says:

      Thanks, now I got it :)

    • Anonymous says:

      Yeah, but why is the N in “Under Neat” capitalized? It’s plausible that the instruction-leaver left off the h from “Underneath” but “Under Neat” is a really weird typo for “Underneath”.

    • jojojo says:

      Yeaaaaaah… Unfortunately the cake decorators (in grocery chains, at least) will do as exactly as they see it on the order sheet and/or don’t ask questions if they are confused about the order. And if the decorator isn’t keen on English they might not differentiate the message from the instructions. Best to keep the order simple. Better yet, pick a pre-made cake and have them do the message in front of you.

      And the brown (or is it black?) trim with orange and yellow flowers… Color scheme FAIL. Yuck. I’d be ticked even if it was spelled correctly.

    • E Smart says:

      I didn’t get it at first either, but now that I do, HOW HILARIOUS!! OMG! XD

    • Anonymous says:

      Instruction fail, then … why would you need to write “Underneath that”? Just write

      Best Wishes Suzanne

      We will miss you

      How hard is that?

    • Joolz says:

      :light bulb:

      Aha! I get it now. I was thinking of some typo/miscommunicated “Understand that we will miss you,” which is a weird thing to say.

  7. Brendan De Peunguin says:

    SECOND YA!!!!!

  8. suzanne says:

    under neat what? i dont want to under neat that, whatever that is.

  9. Tim says:

    It’s “I, say your name,” in cake form!

  10. Kyle says:

    That hurts me in an epic kind of way

  11. Keiran says:

    And in addition the order seems to be given by mail with a german keyboard.
    Or is Suyanne an common name? I think it should have been Suzanne.
    ‘Z’ and ‘Y’ are swapped on german Keyboards.

  12. CB says:

    That’s almost as good as the time the bakery wrote “Congradulations” on the cake when my brother graduated high school. We took it back and they actually argued the point, insisting that it was correct. We actually had to pull out out a dictionary before they would agree to correct it.

    The irony was that my brother was the valedictorian of his class. For him of all people to have a misspelled cake!

    • Davey says:

      Indubitably.

    • nie says:

      It’s really not uncommon for them to spell “Congratulations” incorrectly on cakes. I’m pretty sure it happened on my cake, but I wasn’t about to take it back when I could just eat it. ;p

      The funny thing is, the same people who spell it with the “d” will still say “Congrats!”, you’d think they’d see the “t” in there.

      • Joe says:

        Hmm, I would have guessed that since “Congratulations” gets put on so many cakes, the decorator would have to be a total nitwit to get it wrong. He/she would also probably have to spell it wrong every time and never be corrected.

    • Adriano says:

      No, no, you got it all wrong. ‘congradulations’ is short for “Congratulations on the graduation”, which didn’t fit in the cake.

      Also, the cake is a lie, script on the cake doubly so.

    • e says:

      I’ve seen a lot of people use “congradulations” as a pun, combining “congratulations” and “graduation” into one word. Perhaps the bakery had so many people use the pun that they assumed it was the norm.

      (I am returning to my keyboard after 4 hours away and realizing that I forgot to post this; I hope that there haven’t been 16 identical posts in the meantime.)

  13. Anneke says:

    Took me a while to understand xD Lol!

  14. Lindsay says:

    somebody phoned in this order and the person taking the phone order wrote down, verbatim what the caller said. He/She apparently misunderstood “underneath that” and wrote down “under neat that.” I would lol and lol if this cake showed up at one of our office parties.

  15. Adam says:

    It seems like an error that a text-to-speech program would make! This kind of fail should not be made by a human!

  16. hybridfitness says:

    Legendary fail, IMO.

  17. m.c. square says:

    Poof reeder needed!

  18. Chris says:

    Ok Bob, just write “Best wishes Suzanne”, and underneat that, write “We will miss you”
    Took me a bit to get it but that is such a huge fail – damn

  19. what gets me is the that they wrote “best wishes” under neat it! [<yes i know idiot]

    “lots of love and best wishes for your decaying corpse”

    fly me

  20. Zoe says:

    Wal-mart Employee Fail!

  21. Mao says:

    OH

    I GET IT.

    :B

  22. EgoTrip says:

    EBONIC CAKE!

  23. Ella says:

    It may be a writing fail, but heck I gotta admit…that cake looks pretty darn tasty…

  24. Chris says:

    This is actually not a pastry fail because the pastry itself did not fail, the person writing on the pastry failed. Also, its photoshopped and I know because my job is to discover photoshopped images. I probably look at about 1 million photoshopped images a day and have been doing it for almost 10 years. Also, whoever made this cake, er, I mean photoshopped this image of a cake is a terrorist asshole.

    Also, first.

  25. Homer says:

    If Chuck Norris had baked this cake, it would have corrected itself.

  26. Keelhaul says:

    If Christie Brinkley had baked this cake, I would have made a hole in it.Mmmmm,
    Total Gym cake.

  27. BRMBug says:

    Mmm, Vanilla Buttercream fail. Well, nobody’s perfetc I guess.

  28. KNay says:

    My best friend, nicknamed Farmer, had a cake which read

    “We love Farmer in blue”

    in green icing.

    We meant that we wanted blue icing and the phrase “We love Farmer”

  29. purdlemeow says:

    I saw this first in an email that said they’d ordered the cake from Wal-Mart. Dunno if that’s TRUE, but I believe it!

  30. kristen says:

    i think its probably a fair bet that the person writing the cake didn’t speak english well, and was simply transcribing the message word-for-word. still, fail.

  31. Walter Smitty says:

    I know something about this specific image: Suzanne was quitting her job. Her co-workers decided to throw a little going away party for her at work. So somebody called in the cake order to Wal-Mart (in Arkansas, no less) and explained that the cake should read “‘Best Wishes Suzanne’, and underneath that, ‘We Will Miss You’”

  32. At least the penmanship is neat.

  33. Literature Major says:

    What amazing postings!

    You are all apparently too young to remember the classic cake order:
    “You’re not getting older on top, you’re getting better on the bottom”

    Happy Friday!

  34. Doma says:

    @ Literature Major:

    I fail (probably epically) because I don’t understand. DX (I understand “What amazing postings!” and “Happy Friday”! but the rest… I fail. XP)

    • Doma says:

      I also fail because Blind here didn’t see the “Reply Comment” button although I looked straight at it.

      Epic fail. XD

      • gnawyzus says:

        The cake should have read:
        “You’re not getting older”
        “You’re getting better”
        on top and on the bottom were instructions to the person making the cake.

  35. Anonymous says:

    photoshop

  36. Jonny says:

    Best one on this site. so neat.

  37. Noo says:

    This happened to me! I ordered a cake for my partner’s birthday. I gave the instructions “”Ben” in big letters” in the icing instructions box. Guess what was iced on the cake? Clue: it wasn’t just his name…

  38. matt says:

    omfg it took me so long to understand it. thats fucking hilarious

  39. jadams says:

    This was 2 fails. The person who filled out the cake form failed and the person who decorated the cake epic-failed

  40. anna says:

    OMG.

    The saddest thing about this is this was NOT photoshopped.

    My boss got this for one of our coworkers b4 she left.

  41. lydia_nerd says:

    i lol’d ((:

  42. anonnimuss says:

    For those of you who can’t understand how “underneath that” could’ve possibly been transcribed as “under neat that”…it’s called EBONICS. Come spend a day in any major city in the South…you’ll be a pro at translating that strange dialect. Now…lavish me with accusations of racism. I’m waiting… EBONICS FTW (Fo’ Da Ween!)

  43. Kate says:

    Epic WIN. This cake inspired Cake Wrecks, which is one of my favorite blogs and full of cakes that are fails.

  44. frogman says:

    Idiotic win!

  45. Carrie says:

    That cake was purchased in Louisiana at Wal-mart, for a fellow employee who was moving….Walmart sucks

  46. Omec says:

    Literally Fail

  47. Marissa says:

    Um… making sense fail?

  48. Vehement says:

    Walmart bakery?


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