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Graduation cake stirs up trouble
May 23, 2018, 8:17 AM
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It’s graduation season, but for one cake decorator, it may be time to go back to school.
In what Dori called his favorite story of Tuesday during the Fastest 15, the parents of South Carolina 4.89 GPA student Jacob Koscinski ordered their son a cake online from a Publix supermarket for his graduation party. To celebrate the title with which he is graduating, they decided to have the phrase, “Summa Cum Laude Class of 2018” written on the cake.
Summa Cum Laude is a Latin phrase meaning “with highest honors,” and is used at commencement ceremonies to recognize the highest achievers in a graduating class.
Koscinski’s parents picked up the cake from Publix and did not open the box until the party. When they revealed the cake, however, they were shocked to find that the middle word had been replaced with hyphens, as Publix’ spell-check system had marked it as inappropriate.
“I don’t know what they thought it was between ‘Summa’ and ‘Laude,'” Dori said jokingly on the show.
The Koscinski family received a full refund for the cake.
Dori, however, didn’t buy the student’s statement that he was embarrassed and annoyed by the incident.
“I bet he thought this was the funniest thing ever,” Dori said.
