hamheyelliot
31-01-2009, 08:09 PM
http://www.labnol.org/internet/microsoft-outlook-ruins-birthday-cake/6824/
If you like to order a cake at Wegman’s bakery, you can simply email them a personalized message that will be printed on the cake.
A lady in NY followed the same procedure and ordered a birthday cake over email but here’s what they delivered on her birthday - a cake with some HTML icing.
http://img.labnol.org/di/cake.jpg
It turned out that she used Microsoft Outlook to send her email but Wegman’s email system failed to recognize the proprietary HTML tags of Outlook and hence this goof-up.
This is best explained by an employee of Wegman - "we just cut and paste from the email to the program we use for printing the edible images, we are usually in such a hurry that we really don’t have time to check. and if we do the customers yell at us for bothering them."
If you like to order a cake at Wegman’s bakery, you can simply email them a personalized message that will be printed on the cake.
A lady in NY followed the same procedure and ordered a birthday cake over email but here’s what they delivered on her birthday - a cake with some HTML icing.
http://img.labnol.org/di/cake.jpg
It turned out that she used Microsoft Outlook to send her email but Wegman’s email system failed to recognize the proprietary HTML tags of Outlook and hence this goof-up.
This is best explained by an employee of Wegman - "we just cut and paste from the email to the program we use for printing the edible images, we are usually in such a hurry that we really don’t have time to check. and if we do the customers yell at us for bothering them."