KPRC-TV [Houston, TX]
2 June 2019
Pasadena family upset after
receiving graduation cake made of Styrofoam from Walmart
PASADENA, Texas - A Pasadena family is upset because
they said they received a graduation cake made of Styrofoam. Marsy Flores […] said
that when she went to pick up the graduation cake the morning of the ceremony,
she hit a snag. She said Walmart lost her order for a two-tier cake. […] Flores
said the store offered to give her a different cake free of charge. She said
she chose a smaller cake and the bakery added a picture and several adornments
to the frosting. Flores said that she thought that the party was back on track
but realized she had another problem when she went to cut the cake and realized
it was Styrofoam underneath the frosting. […]
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If this
incident were in the form of a contemporary legend, before the cake is cut the
mother would boast about having baked it herself.
For a
woman taking credit for baking
a cake which, unbeknownst to her, contains toilet paper, see Jan Harold Brunvand,
Too Good To Be True, rev. ed. (New York:
W. W. Norton, 2014), 72-3. Brunvand says the story, which he calls “The
Fallen Angel Cake,” appeared in the Sydney
Morning Herald “around 1980.” In Arthur Goldstuck, The Leopard in the Luggage (Johannesburg: Penguin Books, 1993),
250-1, the cake is stuffed with tissue paper.
A fictional variant featured in the NBC Radio comedy, The Great Gildersleeve. In the episode
called “Marjorie’s
Cake,” broadcast on 7 September 1941, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve
mistakenly eats a cake that his niece has made to impress her boyfriend's
snooty mother. After botching an attempt to secretly bake a replacement, he
hastens to a bakery and buys a fancy cake in the store's window. When he tries
to cut it in the presence of the woman, it falls on the floor and breaks into
pieces, revealing it to be made of plaster of Paris.
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On 1 October 2003, Snopes.com co-founder Barbara
Mikkelson forwarded the following message to the site’s e-mail list.
Comment: In reference to your article where a woman
claims a cake bought at a bake sale as her own reminded me of an incident
involving my ex-wife.
We had been invited to a picnic with a lot of friends
from work. My wife bragged about her
apple pie recipe and said she would bake one for the picnic. As days wore on and my wife would talk to the
other wives she would continually brag about her apple pie. On the morning of the picnic she baked the
pie as promised. However, the pie was
forgot about in the oven and burned. Not
having time to make another one, she decided to stop at the supermarket and buy
an apple pie, take it out of the box, and claim it as her own. On the way to the party, she removed the pie
from the box, and when we arrived she started telling everyone again how much
they were going to like her apple pie. When dessert time came she cut into the
pie and found out the box had been mislabelled.
It was a pineapple pie.
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Annabel Allott, ed., Allsorts of Funny Business (London: Robson Books, 1989), 122.
Frank
Saxby, Director, Saxby Brothers
The Saxby’s
stand at the Ideal Home Exhibition was most impressive – notably the several
large dummy pies ranged in the background, with 1 lb and smaller pies on offer
on the counter.
One
admiring customer asked for a ‘large pie’ for a special party. The assistant
duly wrapped and sold a large pie.
We got a
phone call some time later from a tearful and furious customer. She had cut the
pie in front of her guests and out flowed…sawdust! She wasn’t easily pacified.
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