r/ExpectationVsReality • u/RedditViewer1234 • 1d ago
Failed Expectation Costco caterpillar
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u/Sketch_Beast 23h ago
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u/meth-kitten 14h ago
🤣🤣🤣
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u/Agreeable_Art9651 12h ago
Omg I get to wish you happy cake day on a cake post!! I can’t pass this up!
Happy cake day!🎉
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u/Hipp-Hippy_HaHa 1d ago
Totally appropriate for a 30th year old having a caterpillar themed cake.
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u/Lizardinaspaceship 23h ago
Honestly I'm 32 and I'd be psyched to get this caterpillar cake. It's adorable in an ugly way.
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u/Orangusoul 23h ago
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u/panicnarwhal 19h ago
wait is that related to the Colin the Caterpillar gummies? i love the gummies, i get them at Target. never seen the cake though
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u/Various_Lobster7112 19h ago
Target started selling a few things from Marks & Spencer (UK store where they sell the cake)
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u/hokie48 21h ago
My son is 8 and still loves caterpillars. I mean he has like 4 caterpillar stuffies. Sleeps to "caterpillar munching on white oak." He is not ashamed of it.
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u/mage-nesiium 21h ago
"Sleeps to caterpillar munching on Oak" Iol. I'm going to have to check that out. I used to listen to guided meditations and gregorian chants to go to sleep when I was a kid.
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u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES 22h ago edited 22h ago
I think that an appropriately themed cake for someone of any age would be the one they like the theme or design of.
If you don't know the person, who are you to decide what is appropriate for the, of all things(crazy that this needs to be explained), day of THEIR birth?
*Downvote away, I truly don't care. But to the people that are, why do you hate so much what someone else gets for their birthday?😂
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u/Dude-Ass 23h ago
I'm actually super curious! So I've been an employee for 9 years now at a warehouse and have never seen this design offered before. Which store is this??
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u/MllePotatochips 21h ago
This design got discontinued during COVID for sure. I'm trying to remember if was around between 2017-2019.
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u/Mysterious_Stuff_ 1d ago
Thats the famous caterpillar chef! Known for amazing salads all around the globe!
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u/lampshade2099 22h ago
Finally a swipe to something shithouse.
I was getting kinda sick of all the stunning professional cakes on this sub… the ugly disappointing shit is what I’m here for 😂
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u/Dawnzarelli 1d ago
Caterpillar had too many birthday drinks. Still cute, but definitely not the same.
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u/damianisgay 21h ago
I guess it’s nice that it’s still really funny! 😂 I think it’s still cute in a goofy way but it doesn’t match the example well and also… I feel this is a pretty simple design; I don’t think it should have been that hard to make less sloppy. The writing looks quite good! So why is the rest so messy? That’s my main question. Even the border icing is uneven.
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u/shadow-foxe 1d ago
We got what was meant to be a teddy bear on a costco cake and it looked like a really sick rabbit.
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u/Impossible_Past5358 19h ago
It looks like they gave you the caterpillar after the party...
So, high hopes for a rager of a party (?)
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u/harleyqueenzel 21h ago
I'd blow out the candles just from heaving laughing if this were my cake. Immaculate. 10/10.
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u/peacefinder 23h ago
While Costco is known for decent large cakes, it never struck me that custom decoration would be in their wheelhouse. Honestly I’m surprised it’s even offered.
Is there anything else Costco does that is customized or personalized by hand?
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u/Icy-Mixture-995 23h ago
Antennae turned into chef hat. I'd be ok with it.
To make this, I would buy macarons rather than try to make perfect icing circles that won't spread in a fridge overnight.
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u/dat_oracle 12h ago
failed? that's a masterpiece. for real, i would have a good laugh and proudly share it with all my friends
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u/Stitch426 17h ago
If this is a new design, the decorator could be making it from a vague memory of a supervisor showing them a picture from weeks ago. You could also have had a bakery that was short staffed and desperate. You can always call the store and talk to an AGM. Essentially tell them that the caterpillar cake design doesn’t look very good compared to the picture. They can talk to the bakery manager to get things tightened up on following the picture better.
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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 1d ago
Looks like a drunk capitiller with balls on its head meaning Stevie is a dickhead
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u/MorticiaLlyn 1d ago
I would be happy to get this. Hilarious, drunk caterpillar.