Nazi Drama
ShopRite is really making me question my ethics this morning: They denied making a
cake for a 3-year old's birthday, but only because that child's name happens to be
Adolf Hitler.
travel
The
TSA has a holiday food travel guide up on its website and the verdict is in: Pies and cakes are OK, but "be advised that they might be subject to additional screening."
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unacceptable food
The ongoing saga of sub-par food purchased from major big box chain stores, documented with the miracle of photography and emailed to the Consumerist continues:
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sam's club
It was only after cutting that Kavalaris realized Sam's Club sold his mom a Styrofoam birthday cake decorated with icing. Lansing State Journal reports:
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pr
Oh jeez, just spotted this [update: wonderful bit of satire] at
Strumpette.
Public Relation Demonstrates Commitment to Humanitarian Efforts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) - The Public Relations Industry is celebrating its 100th Birthday with a cake as spectacular and over the top as the business itself. With
more than 150,000 pounds of decadence, the cake is set to capture its place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Largest Birthday Cake ever.Jointly funded by the Greater New York PR Council (GNYPR) and Warehouse Sam's Party Supplies, the monstrosity will be on display for the next two weeks at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. It will then go on tour visiting 14 cities throughout the U.S. It is scheduled to return to New York early February
to be carted and shipped to Darfur, Africa. The cake's final destination is aid to the victims of the humanitarian crisis there.Mmm, starving kids love month-old cake. The center is filled with immunizations, wheat, gas and electrical generators, right?Rest of the press release, after the jump...
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Consumerist
Adolf Hitler Campbell, an unfortunately named three-year-old for whom ShopRite refused to make a birthday cake, and his sisters JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell have been placed in the custody of the state. We hope their new parents give them new names and they finally get some birthday cake.
