Publix wouldn't write Summa Cum Laude on graduation cake due to profanity, SC family says
WEST ASHLEY, S.C. (WCIV) — The signs of a graduation party are still left around the house of the Koscinski family.
Jacob graduated Saturday with the highest honors from a Christian-based home-schooling program. So, his mom ordered a cake.
"He did not know we were getting a cake because he's not a big cake eater. So we were all standing there waiting to see it and when we opened it, it was a huge shock to all of us," said Cara Koscinski.
She explained how she ordered the 3/4 inch sheet cake online through Publix.
But when she requested the bakery include Jacob's honor, she was alerted that profane or special characters weren't allowed. Cara clarified her request with special instructions.
"The website had censored me and this is a website that you can refer to for the Latin term for Summa Cum Laude which means highest honors," she said.
Cara said when her husband picked up the cake from Publix on Savannah Highway and Main Road, he didn't know the bakery omitted the middle Latin word. It was replaced with hyphens.
"The cake experience was kind of frustrating and humiliating because I had to explain to my friends and family like what that meant. And they were giggling uncontrollably. At least my friends were," said Jacob Koscinski.
The Koscinskis said a manager from Publix apologized and offered a refund. For now, they're nibbling on the leftover dessert, and looking forward to Jacob's freshman year at Wingate University.
"It's fine for us to be compensated for the cake. We're just happy that our son graduated school and has a bright future," said Cara Koscinski. Jacob's grade point average is an impressive 4.89. He plans to major in pre-med.
ABC News 4 reached out to Publix to find out why the website confuses this honor with a profanity. But corporate officials didn’t respond to our question.
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May 22, 2018, 12:21 PM
parabellum
Par for the course. Ain't no geniuses frosting cakes at the grocery store.
May 22, 2018, 12:22 PM
Gustofer
Apparently the cake maker didn't graduate Summa Cum Laude...or at all.
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May 22, 2018, 12:39 PM
bigdeal
Stupid on steroids.
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May 22, 2018, 12:49 PM
parabellum
I go into the grocery store deli and ask for three quarters of a pound of ham and the woman hands me a pound and a half. Again, just par for the course. You won't find deep thinkers in the grocery store deli or bakery.
May 22, 2018, 12:56 PM
newtoSig765
I asked for two one-half-pound packages of Italian Sausage at Hy-Vee a couple weeks ago, she gave me two quarter-pound packages. It took a department manager to get it done right.
It seems that the 50% of the population who are below average are working hard at staying there.
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May 22, 2018, 12:57 PM
stoic-one
Soooo, she went to the Publix website to order and the site is programmed to block these "hurtful" or "dirty" words, yes? So then she contacts them via some other means to clarify, am I reading this right?
Yep, no rocket surgeons involved in this situation whatsoever...
The end result of decades of liberal domination of education and the NEA focus on teacher salary and benefits instead of educating students.
May 22, 2018, 01:01 PM
zoom6zoom
If they had included it, odds are they would have misspelled the rest as "Loudly".
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May 22, 2018, 01:06 PM
Georgeair
Newsflash - Publix employees firebomb gas station next door to crush more profanity and quickie sex!!!
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May 22, 2018, 01:10 PM
Mars_Attacks
You know Siemens is in Cumming, Ga.
Can you imagine working there?
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May 22, 2018, 01:11 PM
JALLEN
quote:
Originally posted by Mars_Attacks: You know Siemens is in Cumming, Ga.
Can you imagine working there?
It must be a real heckhole.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
May 22, 2018, 01:14 PM
gpbst3
This story is a little over exaggerated. Lady orders the cake online and it blocks the word so she writes in the special comment section. I believe this could have been resolved if she would have ordered the cake in person.
May 22, 2018, 01:32 PM
lyman
quote:
Originally posted by gpbst3: This story is a little over exaggerated. Lady orders the cake online and it blocks the word so she writes in the special comment section. I believe this could have been resolved if she would have ordered the cake in person.
well apparently those of us who worked in the grocery business are too stupid to take an order period,,
Originally posted by gpbst3: This story is a little over exaggerated. Lady orders the cake online and it blocks the word so she writes in the special comment section. I believe this could have been resolved if she would have ordered the cake in person.
No, they still censored the cake because they were ignorant of what Summa Cum Laud meant. They were so ignorant they didn't even realize it might mean something not related to sex. They didn't even know what they didn't know.
Ignoramuses.
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May 22, 2018, 01:34 PM
AUTiger89
Publix bakery items are delicious, though.
Phone's ringing, Dude.
May 22, 2018, 01:35 PM
darthfuster
Dats summa laud ---.
What lauda --- sound like?
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May 22, 2018, 01:37 PM
FenderBender
quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
quote:
Originally posted by Mars_Attacks: You know Siemens is in Cumming, Ga.
Can you imagine working there?
It must be a real heckhole.
Let's not go off half cocked, I'm sure someone has worked there.
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May 22, 2018, 01:47 PM
Jim Shugart
quote:
Originally posted by jhe888: ...They didn't even know what they didn't know...
(It would have been more better without the dig at Fox News at the end.)
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May 22, 2018, 01:52 PM
lyman
quote:
Originally posted by jhe888:
quote:
Originally posted by gpbst3: This story is a little over exaggerated. Lady orders the cake online and it blocks the word so she writes in the special comment section. I believe this could have been resolved if she would have ordered the cake in person.
No, they still censored the cake because they were ignorant of what Summa Cum Laud meant. They were so ignorant they didn't even realize it might mean something not related to sex. They didn't even know what they didn't know.
Ignoramuses.
since it was ordered online, the programming probably had some type of nannyware in it,
so that word was *** or --- when printed,
clerk did not look or see the extra instructions, which may still have been ---.
in person would have solved this, or get rid of the nannyware
