Posted on 05/22/2018 3:22:01 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Most people believe Summa Cum Laude is an honor ... Publix grocery store believes it's obscene.
Case in point ... this cake.
A woman in South Carolina ordered the tasty treat online to celebrate her son graduating from his homeschool program with a 4.79 GPA ... earning Summa Cum Laude honors.
But, when she sent a friend to pick up the cake, the word "Cum" was edited out -- an apparent violation of the grocery store's obscenity policy!!!!
"My son was humiliated," the woman posted on her Facebook page ... "I seriously couldn't make this crap up!!!"
"How utterly ridiculous and I will be speaking to a manager for a refund. Shame on you Publix for turning an innocent Latin phrase into a total embarrassment for having to explain to my son and others (including my 70 year old mother) about this joke of a cake."
FYI, "Summa Cum Laude" is a Latin phrase that means "with highest honor."
Just make sure your safe search is on if you put it in Google ...
LOL. That is quite the headline.
I sincerely hope you're not a public employee.
Use of that word has been known to be a real job-killer.
Publix
How do you pronounce that anyway? I think it’s obscene.
Someone Cum Loud
Publix is a decent store as a rule, but the local store’s bakery has screwed up every cake we ordered from them. We don’t order there anymore.
Their heart is in the right place. Too bad their brains aren’t as big as the heart.
Further, why is it OK for them to refuse to use a word for their client, but not OK to refuse making a cake at all for another kind of person?
Ignorance is what ignorance does......
Publix is employee-owned.
I had a similar experience at Publix. The Publix bakery staff has been told to never put words on a cake that are protected by a trademark or copyright. The problem is that the Publix staff has no idea which words fall into that category.
When one of my daughters graduated from high school, she had decided to attend Columbia University. So, I wanted “On to Columbia” on her cake. There is no trademark or copyright on the word “Columbia”. It’s in the public domain. All kinds of things use the word “Columbia” in their name. But, there was no one among the bakery staff who had the intelligence to understand that. I realized that there was no way the Publix high school dropouts would ever understand that. So, I dropped the request.
Yup—Shep and Andy would be so angry they’d confuse their choice of Prep H and KY Jelly.
It is Latin stupid.
Just consider this an erratum.
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