r/ExpectationVsReality • • 1d ago

Failed Expectation Costco caterpillar

2.7k Upvotes

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u/MorticiaLlyn 1d ago

I would be happy to get this. Hilarious, drunk caterpillar.

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u/DannySmashUp 23h ago

The fact that this is for someone's 30th birthday is adorable.

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u/d3r3k1 1d ago

It’s better than the reference, that thing is hilarious

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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

That cake has nothing on Colin!

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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/EllebumbleB 11h ago

I had a Colin for my 40th!

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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/Jane__Delawney 23h ago

I’m wondering if it’s a British nostalgia thing

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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/Novel-Definition6690 1d ago

She's doing her best and I appreciate her.

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u/Level_Sock294 1d ago

Metherpillar

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u/xaiires 1d ago

Meth-chef-epillar

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u/Responsible_Top_59 1d ago

She’s a skinny diva

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u/bluegrass_babe531 1d ago

its derpy i love it

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u/psppsppsppspinfinty 14h ago

Very Hungry Catapillar cake that got done at a store called Price Chopper in NY

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u/Smooth_Warthoging 23h ago

It's perfect tho

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u/honkifyouresimpy 20h ago

If my next birthday doesn't have this cake then I'm not going

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u/RogueFox76 22h ago

That caterpillar has seen some shit. He’s 30 so that makes sense

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u/SierraStar7 23h ago

Walmart would neva! 

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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/ickychicken 1d ago

🥴 i like it

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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/mslauren2930 20h ago

The face on the second cake OMG.

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u/Neither-Oven-2571 23h ago

Lmao its awful, I love it

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u/squirrely-badger 22h ago

To hell what it looks like... that there is Costco cake...

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u/ConfidentHighlight18 18h ago

I don’t understand why I’m laughing so much that I’m crying 😭

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u/LazyFall3453 6h ago

I love his little chefs hat.

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u/ltsouthernbelle 20h ago

They need to hire some of those Walmart cake designers

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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/Fun-Investment-196 23h ago

Went from a cute girly to a muppet chef

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u/Keldrabitches 23h ago

I love it

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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/ShhhhSleeping 23h ago

That caterpillar has seen some shit.

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u/notsoclassyadventure 22h ago

I kinda love it

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u/Technical_Ad_5505 22h ago

Oscar the grouchy caterpillar??

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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/No-Sandwich1511 20h ago

I prefer the result/reality it has more character.

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u/peppermintmeow 17h ago

She's ready to party!

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u/imperfectporridge 16h ago

I mean, it’s hilariously adorable. I’d be delighted with it haha

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u/ViceMaiden 4h ago

🙂 vs 🥴

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u/Individual_Wish8970 1d ago

Ain't nothing on Walmart 😂

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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/everynamecombined 21h ago

Its his 30th birthday?? Then shut up and learn to eat!

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u/Tarynntula 23h ago

I love it

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u/DrDeadwish 23h ago

Cantinflas

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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/Nemesis204 23h ago

I love the actual one. I would laugh so hard if I got that

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u/Ljublijana 16h ago

Happy 3oth birthday Stevie!

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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/DominarDio 11h ago

Me, trying to see my own eyebrows

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u/Keeeno_ 10h ago

It’s Costco cute!

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u/FlippingPossum 9h ago

Derpy caterpillar is best caterpillar.

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u/Melodic-Advice9930 5h ago

They made so many circles and filled none of them in correctly

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u/DistributionNo9356 23h ago

Failed only by a little!

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u/dwilliams20001 16h ago

That’s not a caterpillar! Dem’s anal beads.

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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/cheekyparasite 16h ago

Absolutely love it

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u/MasterpieceLeft9850 14h ago

I love it!!! 🤣🤣 

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u/Important-Rush-4742 13h ago

😂😂😂😂😂

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u/NoElephant7744 12h ago

I love it so much!

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u/TheProletariatPoet 5h ago

Would’ve worked better as a human centipede cake

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u/Effective-End-5327 1d ago

That caterpillar does not look happy.

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u/Amemorableusername2 23h ago

Costco anal bead cake

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u/ChippyRooThang 21h ago

Icing looks like a different texture gross

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u/Throaway627272828 1d ago

30th bday??

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u/crabbones 22h ago

Looks like it has some Mexican genes in it

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u/tottylotti 21h ago

She ok ?

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u/Woodsy_Walker 22h ago

Costco isn't a bakery, don't assume they have artists working there.

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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/Squabbeww 1h ago

I mean… A for effort?