The Bakery House: Donut Mess With the Cops

A police officer celebrating his 25th year in the force was surprised by his friend with a beautiful cake.  The cake was meant to celebrate the officer’s long career in a pretty tough, sometimes thankless job.  Instead the cake insulted the entire Philly police department.  The cake was decorated with a Philly PD badge, but the PPD slogan “Honor, Integrity, Service” had been replaced with the words “Coffee, Donuts, Corruption.”  The customer (whose name ironically is not Karen) who ordered the cake called the bakery and spoke to the manager to complain and then called a local news station because she felt the bakery was lying.  The local news station took Not-Karen’s complaint very seriously and aired a news story about the cake with the bad-badge.  There was no other news to report that week so the news station was probably very grateful to the customer for calling them and reporting the incident.

The bakery claimed it was an honest mistake.  They had simply grabbed an image off the internet and printed it out without really looking at the fine print on the image.  They are bakers and don’t know that the internet sometimes lies.   Plus, that bad-badge image is one of the first images that pop up when you google “Philly PD badge” so what’s a bakery to do except issue a sweet apology and hope everyone understands that workplace accidents happen when people are overworked because companies are understaffed because of COVID.