Breast Cancer Awareness Cake: FAIL
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and your local Harris Teeter is gearing up for the occasion. I spotted these cute pink-ribbon cupcakes today at the Adams Morgan Teet on 17th St. & Kalorama Rd. NW:
Delicate little ribbon-shaped sprinkles? Darling. However, I found the supermarket’s larger BCAM offerings to be somehow less impressive. Observe:
The Breast Cancer Awareness FAIL cake: Yours for only $6.99.
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3:18 pm
an extra v would make this look all cluttered. FAIL seems harsh for a silly mistake like that. Unless there were like 15 of these things. Were there like 15 of these things?
3:29 pm
:(,
Thank you for your FAIl vigilance. I did only see one cake on display; I think they’re just now rolling them out. The Teet still has six days before October to fit that pesky “extra” V in there.
3:45 pm
BLOG FAIL!!!!! –> “FAIl vigilance”
4:06 pm
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
4:06 pm
Oh, teh internetz
10:24 am
Yes – Fail, but Humor-worthy! Surviving and Proud of it!
10:46 am
An extra V would make it look cluttered? Yes, you’re right – better to have a blatant misspelling that renders the product unsaleable than clutter up the top of a cake, wasting all that frosting on SPELLING the WORD CORRECTLY.