USB cake design worst birthday surprise in history

Imagine this -- you walk into a custom confectionery and inform the design team that you want the image on a USB flash drive made onto a very special cake. In fact, you even leave the flash drive with them so they can really look it over. Sure, you'd think they would get to frost-brushing that unicorn flying through a rainbow right onto the cake, but apparently the artists in question had other ideas. Namely, creating a photo-perfect replica of a Lexar flash drive on the surface of what appears to be an otherwise delicious pile of sugar. Seriously. Too bad about that black icing, birthday boy.

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[(Unverified) Posted Feb 3rd 2009 9:53AM]

I have a picture of a cake someone made at Walm-Mart where the cake was pretty but misseplled badly......lol, i make my own now.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 3rd 2009 10:22AM]

Was the bad spelling in your story about not being able to spell done on purpose?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 3rd 2009 11:30AM]

Wait, are you guys seriously debating the merits of the frosting makeup on this cake? Is that really what people talk about here at engadget? Keep talking about your computers, I don't think anyone really wants to hear you critique the specifics of a great story.

[WC Posted Feb 3rd 2009 1:02PM]

I don't know why anyone just assumes the confectioner will know what you mean if you aren't explicit. Don't tell them in words, show them. If that means a poorly draw sketch with the exact wording, DO IT.

Since I everyone else wrote their own story, I'm adding mine. Note that they didn't fail, but they were close.

I went into the supermarket and asked for a cake with 'Oh great and glorious father' and then a bunch of scribbles that look like writing but aren't. They objected, and wanted to put the whole thing, instead of just the beginning. So I recited the whole thing:

"Oh great and glorious father of all fathers, for whom the sun rises and the stars twinkle, may I please have " ... (And whatever it was you wanted.) When my dad was in a weird mood as a kid, this is what we had to say instead of 'please'. He would laugh and laugh every single time.

So when I wanted something as an adult, I got a cake with that on it.

In the end, they did exactly what I asked for after all. Heh.

[stingblah Posted Feb 3rd 2009 3:22PM]

THE CAKE IS A TRUTH!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 3rd 2009 5:20PM]

Aside from being a dumb mistake, that is a poorly made cake. Seriously, I'm sure any one of us could do a better job if we put in a reasonable effort. I work in a kitchen, and have had to make cakes before, and it's really not that hard to make something that looks half-decent.

[FILA Posted Feb 3rd 2009 5:51PM]

god damn they could of atleast shaped it like a drive, what da fuck is this, look like a kid just went crazy with a tube of icing.

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