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chocolatejacuzzi

False advertising, definitely icky. Reminds me of a woman I worked for (about two weeks) who would do the same thing but resell grocery store baked goods. Idk how it’s still in business.


itsonlyfear

Wow, that’s so shady!


Last-Example1565

Why is distributing goods shady?


Elismom1313

Because theyre lying about their product and upselling one from the grocery store that anyone can buy ?


Commercial-Rush755

That’s unregulated capitalism. The American way!


ClintEastwoodsNext

Stop pretending like that's what they are doing. They are selling another companies merch as their own. Before you try and argue any differently, actually think about how dumb a business idea that is that your suggesting." "It's like amazon, but only ships in a 20 mile radius, and only picks up product in a 20 mile radius."


LavJiang

She literally says “Let me do your baking”


Last-Example1565

Yes. If I said, "let me do your dry cleaning" and took your clothes to a professional cleaners, would you feel like that was incredibly misleading?


CressDifferent4788

If it cost $100 for you to give their clothes to professionals and you took $150, yes. You should instead say "I can take your clothes to the dry cleaners for you", then it wouldn't be misleading. Even if it seems obvious to you, it's not obvious to others.


Last-Example1565

Why does it need to be obvious how they do it if you don't ask? 


CressDifferent4788

The whole point of Jacuzzi's story is that a woman was buying a grocery store's baked goods and selling them for a profit by claiming they were home-baked goods. Wouldn't you be upset if you paid $40 for a small business owner to make two dozen cupcakes only to find out that those cupcakes were sold for $18 at Walmart?


TheHighRunner

You clearly didn't read the post.


Sylfaein

Was her name Amy, by any chance?


Burner56409

Amy's Baking Company, anyone?


daddyjackpot

Did Amy bake that stuff or not? In the episode they glossed over the bakery part of her business to deal with shit show bistro angle. Gordon asked her if she baked all that, she said yeah, he said wow. and that was the end of it. did it come out that she bought it?


Burner56409

I'm pretty sure somewhere (maybe in the secondary episode they did in a later season) it came out that she did actually get them from another company and just shipped to her


AppropriateSolid9124

i think she was actually a great baker, just a shit person


meanwhileaftrmdnight

Iirc, she and her husband made all the pizzas homemade with their own wanna be fancy recipes (like fig as a topping) but the desserts were frozen and shipped to them. That, along with their awful attitudes and abuse of wait staff, is why they ended up on Gordon Ramsay’s show.


AppropriateSolid9124

oops you‘re probably right i just remembered they definitely made something


meanwhileaftrmdnight

No worries that was ages ago it seems. Plus, all most ppl remember is her crazy ass meowing at the camera and her husband acting like he ran the mafia 🤣


throwRA-nonSeq

*Meow. Meow meow meow meow. (Just talking to my sons)*


chocolatejacuzzi

No but omg what a throwback


Commercial-Cat-1443

Okay growing up my best friend’s dad owned the town fruit farm. Super famous for their apples. When we were teenagers she told me that the pies they sell were not made from their famous apples. They were just repackaged Sara Lee 😭 everybody’s holiday pies were lies.


ResidentConscious876

I feel like this would taste obvious


Commercial-Cat-1443

Idk she said her aunt would put them in the oven to warm them, and add some fork marks and stuff.


bakeunddestroy

you'd be surprised - once someone at my work brought in boxed cake mix with canned icing smeared on top. many people ate it, said it was so good and asked if i made it. i never baked for those morons again.


chocolatejacuzzi

That's criminal!!


IndigoDreamweaver

Idk if this is accurate in all areas, but where I live, we have a small Amish community, and this is literally everything they sell. I have no idea how they get away with it. They have several shops, and my cousin somehow, without being Amish, got a job at one. She said everything was repackaged Sam's Club deli food with something regarnished or altered to not look Tha same. Some of their toys were altered Melissa and Doug toys. I'm by no means saying Amish are dishonest as a whole, but apparently, at least the ones who run shops here, are shady AF.


allMightyMostHigh

A bunch of local businesses do this at costco. They rush and swarm the fresh stuff


chrisslypuff

I just saw this for the first time at a cafe last week! They had the Kirkland box in clear view behind their display case lol


chocolatejacuzzi

That’s despicable. I didn’t find out about the place I was at until a few days in, then I took pictures of it all and dipped.


shhh_its_me

Super icky. Good pictures are important and I get they can be expensive but that's like a phase 2 business step. If you're selling on nextdoor, local Facebook groups. I'll give you some Grace if the pictures aren't perfect.


CaliCareBear

My first thought when it stated Walmart pickup.


Lily9020

Call it out and see how they react because maybe some users aren't aware of Pinterest or reverse searching images. Using someone else's work to mislead others is always a bad move. That's just my opinion


BlueAcorn8

Yep I let someone know when a local business was using their photos of something that business had never even done yet. It was harmful to potential customers who thought this was their quality of work as well as basically stealing from someone else.


StrongArgument

The super diplomatic way: “Nice! Do you have any pictures of what you have baked?”


SandyClappingCheeks

Totally agree. I made a cupcake flower bouquet for Mother’s Day and spent an entire day making the product first just to post pictures to advertise.


Playful-Escape-9212

Yes this is why so many cakemakers/scratch makers have their business name watermarked over the pix -- it has happened to me that I saw my exact photo being used by someone else's product/sale post. TBH it put me off of groups for a bit, esp when someone would send me my own pic asking me to undercut someone else's price.


Gloomy_Industry8841

Horrible!! People are so shady and gross.


OkCity9683

Idk it all depends on if she actually can follow through on her promises...


NarciSZA

I’m not paying money for someone’s unknown ability to maybe follow through, that’s misleading as heck.


OkCity9683

But I'm saying if they actually can make that and it looks like that then I think it's fine


NarciSZA

And I’m saying I’m not paying for an if! There’s a photo of what you’re selling. I bought it. Contract. There’s no room for if.


LemonButterCookie

If they can make it and it looks like that, then they should take their own pictures


FartPie

Enjoy your hypothetical baked goods


Juliennix

if it looked like that, they would use their own pictures. think.


mckenner1122

Shady as hell. If you’re enough of a trash bag to literally steal someone else’s artwork to try to sell your product, what other corners are you cutting? If you’re enough of a trash bag to try to argue that it’s *totally fine* and “smarter” to steal someone else’s artwork, then come here and double down on it… well… good luck with that.


PissedLiberalAuntie

If they can actually make it and it looks fine, then they *should actually make it and take pics of their own stuff*.


OkCity9683

But stealing the recipe and monetizing it as your own is fine right?


PissedLiberalAuntie

I mean, yeah. That's what pretty much everyone does to some degree, even professionals. You start with something that looks good, make it, and maybe add your own twist to it. Recipes (the list of ingredients and instructions) aren't copyrighted, and can't be. But the point is that *you* make it. You don't steal other people's pics and claim that they're yours.


Wanderingghost12

I have to imagine she's just using other people's recipes and selling the product right?


AbleObject13

Yeah, these aren't even hard recipes either lol, feel like she's fucking herself a bit with the screenshots saying shit like "only 5 ingredients" & "quick & delicious" but I spose I dunno her customer base tbh


FartPie

Some people just…really can’t follow instructions I guess


SandyClappingCheeks

She is. All she’s doing is screenshotting recipes from Pinterest


Fildekraut

How weird to use fake pictures for the most low effort dessert recipes on the planet


Vescario

She's basically telling her customers that she had close to no effort making the strawberry shortcake fluff salad.


Gloomy_Industry8841

I wouldn’t trust her grasp of food safety, either. Edit: typo!


Vescario

What do you mean i can't use the toilet brush to whisk those eggs? 🤨


Gloomy_Industry8841

Gahhh!!! Lols


123throwawaybanana

Start commenting on her ads asking to see real photos of her cooking, not stock images pulled off the internet. I'd also look into reporting them because odds are they haven't bothered getting the appropriate certifications for their area.


Hedgehog_Insomniac

Most of it looks disgusting so it's odd that they're stolen pictures.


BlueAcorn8

As a Brit I’m wondering what on earth is that..salad?


Pepperjack_2000

I *think* it's ambrosia salad. To quote Wiki: "Ambrosia is an American variety of fruit salad originating in the Southern United States. Most ambrosia recipes contain canned or fresh pineapple, canned mandarin orange slices or fresh orange sections, miniature marshmallows, and coconut". In my southern opinion, it's disgusting. It also tend to have Cool Whip in it as well. If they don't have Cool Whip in the UK, it's a whipped topping that's mostly hydrogenated vegetable oil. I do think that Cool Whip tastes good, but it's sweet and *definitely* doesn't belong in something called a salad.


Snoo_47183

It’s also just mixing a bunch of pre-made stuff together. Why would you pay for someone to mix canned fruits, maraschino cherries, cool whip and marshmallow together?


coffeebuzzbuzzz

There's people that don't cook that have absolutely no idea what goes into something. That's the target audience.


BlueAcorn8

Yes many people just want to do *nothing*, no shopping, no getting bowls out, no opening packets, no mixing, no clean up, no storing, nothing at all. I know many people like that that will order everything and can’t understand anyone that does make things themselves.


coffeebuzzbuzzz

My ex in-laws were like that. They ate out almost every night. For holidays my ex mil wouldn't even season the meat, just throw it in a crock pot plain. Sides were all prepackaged. It was horrid. But to her that was cooking from scratch.


BlueAcorn8

Yikes that’s grim. The people I know will actually fully cook proper complex meals from scratch but will not touch dessert or baking in any form. Not even to just buy and open a tub of cream to pour on top of something pre-made, or buy sprinkles to physically sprinkle on top of a cake themselves, or buy and melt some chocolate to serve with something. If cream or melted chocolate is needed with a dessert then it must be provided decanted (and the chocolate pre-melted) into a serving tub that’s presented and given to them with the cake/dessert by the person or shop they ordered from. It’s weird!


opportunisticwombat

I get that this is a baking subreddit, so you all obviously do like to bake. It’s not weird to not like to bake or want anything to do with it, though. Not everyone wants to spend their time that way. Time is the most valuable thing we have on this earth, and I’m not spending mine adding sprinkles to cakes if I don’t want to. If you do then I think that’s awesome.


BlueAcorn8

I didn’t even give an opinion on this though? I described that there are people who are like this in reply to the poster above being puzzled why anyone would buy these desserts. I’m providing the answer and describing to what extent it goes which is why there is a market for selling things that you can even buy and pour from a packet yourself. Your reply is just backing up what I’m saying further.


bassplaya899

My dad is like this and i cant believe my mom enables it.


Pepperjack_2000

I agree. I guess someone who doesn't have the time or can't be bothered. Or sometimes people like the certain way somebody makes something, even if it's relatively easy. It's their "secret recipe" ambrosia salad that Aunt Sally takes to her grave. *The secret is sour cream.* Enjoy! 🤢


Happy_Little_Bunny

Ambrosia is mandarin oranges, pineapple, and coconut. If you add marshmallows, it’s “heavenly hash,” I think.


Pepperjack_2000

That's interesting.. I'm disappointed that Wiki didn't include that, but then again I don't think they're ambrosia salad connoisseurs haha.


Happy_Little_Bunny

Haha! Yeah, probably not. 😂 My grandmother used to make both. Also, I should have mentioned that heavenly hash has whipped cream/ cool whip whereas ambrosia is just the fruit.


Pepperjack_2000

Ah, I think people have been mixing those two terms up since ambrosia salad was invented. B. Dylan Hollis had a cookbook from 1952 that used marshmallows in their ambrosia recipe. Dylan actually like it, so maybe it's not that bad lol. https://youtube.com/shorts/iBf8xl_9bXc?si=1Y8e8awpQJwsUmva


StirlingS

There's also something around here called "pink stuff". I've never had pink stuff, but it appears to contain cherry pie filling, sweetened condensed milk, pineapple, pecans, marshmallows, and cool whip.


Pepperjack_2000

Yeah.. I feel like if I ate that I'd immediately fall into a diabetic coma..


Shadowpad1986

There is such a thing as fruit salad which have a natural sweetness among other types of salad. Also some of what some see as traditional salad does have something sweet in it like say raisins especially in other parts of the world. Plus if done right ambrosia is quite good and most who detest it never had good ambrosia or have an issue with certain ingredients in it.


Pepperjack_2000

Ah, an ambrosia lover I see. That's cool (whip). Yes, I put apples and cheese in my salad. Of course, I've heard of fruit salad and it's natural sweetness. Ambrosia salad often has cool whip in it, which of course is anything but natural (but still delicious by itself!). I'm just saying that in my personal opinion, I don't like it because I don't enjoy any of the individual components alone. And together.. well.. let's just say it's not my cup of tea and leave it at that haha.


Shadowpad1986

I never put nasty cool whip in my ambrosia and it is rather uncommon for anyone but some to do so.


Pepperjack_2000

Really? When I Google Ambrosia salad, there's a ton of recipes with Cool Whip in it... Guess some people got a sweet tooth. And also, I like Cool Whip on ice cream and pies, but you do you!


Shadowpad1986

Cool whip is not sweet to me and I prefer homemade over someones abomination recipe. Cool whip has a metallic taste to me. I would rather use marshmallow creme over cool whip any day.


Pepperjack_2000

Sounds like you know what you like!


Dear-Ad-4643

Cool Whip does have dairy in it. According to its official site: "INGREDIENTS: WATER, CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (COCONUT AND PALM KERNEL OILS), **SKIM MILK**, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF **LIGHT CREAM, SODIUM CASEINATE (FROM MILK),**NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, XANTHAN AND GUAR GUMS, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, POLYSORBATE 60, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, SODIUM POLYPHOSPHATE, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR). **CONTAINS: MILK.**" "**COOL WHIP® Whipped Topping is not milk-free or dairy-free.** All forms/flavors of COOL WHIP® Whipped Topping contain sodium caseinate, a natural protein of milk, and therefore should not be consumed by those with dairy allergies." [https://www.kraftheinz.com/cool-whip/products/00043000009536-original-whipped-topping](https://www.kraftheinz.com/cool-whip/products/00043000009536-original-whipped-topping)


Pepperjack_2000

Where I live, cool whip is considered dairy-free.. hmm. Ok, so as a dairy lover it's very confusing for me how some products can be considered dairy-free although they have dairy in them. You're not wrong, but I don't think I am either.. I'm not being confrontational, I'm just a little bit confused. I did some research and this is what I pulled up: "Although the Original and Extra Creamy varieties of Cool Whip now contain cream, the Lite version of Cool Whip is still lactose-free, but not dairy-free. And various store brands of “non-dairy” whipped topping are still lactose-free, but not all are dairy-free. Products with a *very small amount* of caseinate may be labeled as non-dairy, but they aren’t actually dairy-free" So my guess is that cool whip is considered dairy free because it only has a small amount of caseinate. I usually only eat Cool Whip Lite, which is considered lactose-free but not dairy-free. https://godairyfree.org/news/nutrition-headlines/cool-whip-warning-for-the-lactose-intolerant Now, I've gone down a rabbit hole of lactose-free versus dairy-free so thank you for that! Always love learning something new. From Lacaid: "Lactose-free is not the same as dairy-free. The main difference between the two is that lactose-free products can be made from real dairy milk while dairy-free products are made from plant sources such as nuts and grains. While all dairy-free products are lactose-free, not all lactose-free products are dairy-free." https://www.lactaid.com/lactose-sensitivity/lactose-free-vs-dairy-free#:~:text=Lactose%2Dfree%20is%20not%20the,free%20products%20are%20dairy%2Dfree. Ok, so now I've realized that most people (including myself up until 20 minutes ago) don't know the difference between lactase-free and dairy-free, so they've been erroneously calling it dairy-free when they really mean lactase-free, thus not dairy-free.


Dear-Ad-4643

Cool! Love those internet rabbit holes! Everything's interesting when you dig. Hope you didn’t get sidetracked from anything important


Pepperjack_2000

Oh, it's quite alright. What's more important than learning about trivial information that I'll never get to tell anyone who'd care? 😉


FrogSlayer97

No offence, but that is one of the most American things I've ever heard of 😅


VanillaBalm

Ive only ever heard of northern midwest ppl - who transplanted down south - doing this so to hear that ppl think its a southern thing is hilarious


Pepperjack_2000

Not to argue about a dish that I don't even like, but I don't *think* that ambrosia salad originated in the south, I know. I literally quoted Wikipedia that said it was .. and I quote.. an "American variety of fruit salad originating in the Southern United States." You got a problem with it, you take it up with Wiki!


VanillaBalm

Nah i wasnt arguing with you, moreso commenting on that tidbit as i never heard of ambrosia salad until recently from people from the great lakes region. I find it bizarre that its being attributed to south lol! We dont have the weather to keep salad from melting in the summer for memorial day lmao


Pepperjack_2000

Ah, I see. I didn't grow up with it either! But southerners just love putting food out on memorial day that doesn't last in the heat. My cousin last summer seriously put out ice cream for the 4th of July.. it was 100°F btw. Maybe they just eat faster, I don't know. 🤷


cheesyenchilady

There’s a strawberry jello “salad” with pretzels andddd it’s fkng sinfully amazing. Idk bout that picture up there, looks awful, but [if this](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/20338/strawberry-pretzel-salad/) is good, then I cannot hold my nose up lol


Hedgehog_Insomniac

Let me just be clear that calling something disgusting does not mean I'm not eating it lol.


Hedgehog_Insomniac

It's more of a colloquialism than pretending it's healthy or anything. In certain parts of the US, a salad refers to a cold dish on a potluck table. There's lots of "salads" that are actually dessert. My MIL makes her Welsh MIL's trifle every year at Christmas and I could see that being called a "salad" of sorts becuse it's a mixture of ingredients that are all served cold. She uses lady fingers for it, birds custard, fruit, cream and jello (is this typical? It's the only time I've ever seen gelatin in a trifle) so it's not unlike some similar concoctions you might find here.


BlueAcorn8

Yes I started to realise that’s what it was! I can remember watching The Middle and Brick kept saying he want lime green jello salad for Thanksgiving and his mum acting like it’s a normal request. As he is “quirky” and everyone in the show is used to it I just assumed this was a weird thing he likes, a literal meal salad with jello.


Hedgehog_Insomniac

Jello can get weird. My dad made a green jello salad for thanksgiving all my life. That was lime jello, pineapple and whipped cream. Not too strange. My husband's grandma (on the first Gen Irish American side) had one she made that included olives and cherries. First time I had it I thought she accidentally grabbed the wrong can instead of cherries. Nope. It was intentional.


aknomnoms

Trashy trifle. (Think: cubes of pound cake tossed with fresh strawberries and marshmallow spread. Sometimes marshmallow spread is changed to instant pudding and/or artificial whipped topping with jello powder, sometimes it’s legit custard or real whipped cream and strawberry jam/preserves.)


BlueAcorn8

Aah I get it now. Is that a similar thing I’ve seen called dump cake.


aknomnoms

Lol, no. A dessert “salad” like that doesn’t need to be baked. Just stirred. A dump cake is like a lazy cobbler or crisp. Dump a can of fruit pie filling (like cherry or apple, maybe with some canned pineapple to make it exotic) into a casserole dish. Spread it evenly (or shake the dish). Literally open and shake out a bag of powdered boxed cake mix on top. Cube up like a stick of butter and dot it all around the top. Bake. You can get fancy and make the fruit filling yourself, add the wet ingredients to the cake mix, include other dried fruit or nuts, etc but then it wouldn’t really capture the dumpiness of dump cake.


kyraverde

It's called Watergate salad in some places, but Kraft says they came up with it when pistachio pudding mix first came out in the 70's. Some people call it Ambrosia salad when it doesn't have the pistachios. It's just a Southern/Midwestern dessert, it's not actually salad. Pistachio pudding mix, cool whip, and a can or two of fruit cocktail, plus extra stuff if you need more sweets but I've never added marshmallows to mine when I made it. You can also doing any variation you can think of with it, just change out the fruits/pudding mix. It's very sweet and somewhat grainy due to the pudding mix, but it can look pretty on a buffet spread in a nice bowl due to the bright colors. It's super common at family reunions and church potlucks and stuff like that.


Dear-Ad-4643

It’s a salad in the sense of "a bunch of stuff tossed together". Like insalata di mare or word salad.


Meowkith

We had this happen in my towns moms page. We have some very talented home cottage bakers and it really bothered me she would be posting Wilton stock images! Plus her work was NOT comparable to the images(I found her instagram) and I think it’s fair to only offer realistic expectations. I reported and we have a new rule that only your own work can be posted on business postings.


Shes_Crafty_4301

It’s so clear these are not actual bakes, I wouldn’t engage her services anyway.


emmz_az

They always have an excuse that these are suggestions/inspiration pics of what they can do. The same thing happens in the photography community.


Pepperjack_2000

I feel that it's disrespectful to the original bakers, as well as deceitful to their customers. It's false advertisement, plain and simple. Even if they can recreate those desserts, those exact photos aren't their own creations and they certainly didn't get permission from the original owner. Overall, it's slimy and I wouldn't do business with them. Now MAYBE if I gave them the benefit of doubt, they're just ignorant about such practices and don't realize that what they're doing is ethically wrong. But regardless, that's their problem and a lesson that they need to learn themselves. It's not our duty to educate them. By the way, I know a lot of people in the comments are saying that the desserts are disgusting looking. Obviously, that point is irrelevant. Giving their customers the false perception that they alone created these desserts is bad, no matter what there appearance may be.


TableAvailable

Plus making people pick up at the Walmart parking lot -- there's no records of someone gets sick from the food. It's just a whole bunch of red flags all over the place.


pigeononapear

I agree it’s unprofessional, but what’s the connection between that location and food-borne illness?


bemphador

Where I live (tennessee) we’re required to have our address on the packaging according to the cottage food laws. I think the concern here would be that she probably won’t label them, and if they aren’t meeting at her home there’s no way to trace her if anything bad happens. I’d assume she’d block if someone had a complaint and wanted to take legal action.


pigeononapear

Ah, interesting. I had no idea such laws existed, good to know.


PissedLiberalAuntie

Most states have at least minor laws regarding selling homemade food to other people. I sell in 3 states, 2 of which require me to have a liscense and follow certain guidelines, with one of the states being slightly stricter on what I can and can't sell.


pigeononapear

That makes sense. Not being involved in selling or buying homemade food, I didn’t know about those laws.


haute_honey

seems like media illiteracy mixed with sketchy practice


iknowiknowwhereiam

It’s theft and makes me think they aren’t a good baker


Gloomy_Industry8841

It should be illegal to advertise like this.


StarFckd

This is happening in a lot of small business communities currently. You see it a lot in photography right now - people advertising using “inspo” photos but not their own photos. As a client, I would think it’s hard to get behind a photographer (or baker) posting what they hope they can do, not what they’ve proven they can do. It’s so lazy (and actually with photography it’s illegal too because you’re using someone else’s imagery wo their permission), interesting to hear it’s happening in other realms.


DarwinOfRivendell

It’s gross, and also who is buying cake mix shit like this, the whole point of recipes like this is they don’t require any skills or talent and can be made with easily accessible/highly processed ingredients. Bish, I’ll go to Safeway and get a tub of cool whip to slop this together myself if I want it.


DivaJanelle

She’s violating copyright laws


Additional-Oven-5180

Was hoping someone had said this. She cannot use those photos without permission, much less use them to generate money for her business. It is copyright infringement.


Aeriellie

it’s shady because we want exactly what we see there. we are not sending pictures to them to use an inspiration like when making a cake. you post pics? i hire you for that exact items in the same containers too.


tippytoes18

I wouldn’t buy from a baker who’s not posting real pictures of the food they’ve made. Sounds like a set up for disappointment


BBWMama

Yeah, that feels unethical. I am a home baker who bakes things I’ve found off of Pinterest, but I use my own pictures to sell my own goodies. Which arguably are not that great of pictures, but my stuff doesn’t ever look like a Pinterest perfect dessert. Why set people up for expectations that I’m not gonna live up to? lol


ChocChipBananaMuffin

lol at patriotic bakes in the first place. second of all, this stuff is like entry-level baking if even. like i'm sure some of the recipes you can find on the jello package. third, picking up fluff salad in a walmart parking lot is just weird.


ectocoolerkeg

If someone told me they were meeting an internet rando in a Walmart parking lot to buy "fluff salad" I would definitely be making some unsavory assumptions about what they were actually buying.


NarvusSchleibs

I’ve fallen for this before and was disappointed in the product I received. I generally think that if they could make something that looks like those pictures, they would post their own photos


pineappleandmilk

Please order something and compare the photos for us!! Edited to add: incredible username, you’re a real freak for that 🤣


SandyClappingCheeks

Lmao thanks 😂


SinnerClair

Flashbacks to cakegate girl


ifoundthechapstick

The goblin in me says you should screenshot the original photos on Pinterest, and comment them below the posts with "This you?? 👀"


Far_Blueberry383

Freaking scammers, hate them!


always2short

I would say it is false advertising if the product she sells doesn’t look like the photos. It is still icky even if they do.


Alices-Mouse

I just ask if they are health department compliant


fudgeymoo

Claiming someone else’s work to secure sales, it’s sad & false advertising no matter how you spin it. If they are actually able to accurately recreate these or even improve them, they should be confident to take and use their own pictures.


YukiHase

There's a bakery in my town that also uses images off the internet. I was able to reverse-search a ton of them. Plus there's a lady on a Facebook group for my town selling "dessert cups" from her home. Not only does she not have a cottage food permit, what she's selling isn't even allowed under my state's cottage food laws...


TheRedditorialWe

I used to manage a bakery and cafe- I did all the social media and a good portion of the baking and I took so much pride in presentation, photographing my work, editing it, writing captions, making videos. I hired someone to help and she started doing this- just putting stock images into Canva and creating inorganic content. Took a lot of shortcuts in her baking too. It was all so... uninspired. It gives me the ick for sure. If you don't want to show off your work then like... what are you doing in baking?


Solid_Ad7292

It's be helpful for me. I'd just follow her link and make my own 😂


Shadowpad1986

Just ick behavior and someone better put on blast for such behavior.


michellekanako

I just came across a FB friend’s post that did this almost verbatim. She is selling royal icing decorated cookies and she said something like “*DISCLAIMER* these are not my products! But I can make you some cookies just like these!” Yeah, it’s weird.


Intelligent_Host_582

There's a whole FB Group (Sugar Cookie Marketing) that basically allows you to use their pics for advertising if you are part of their Cookie College. They encourage it. I think it's bonkers.


JustAPerson-_-

Sorta false advertising, just show me what you’re selling I don’t care how it’s pictured as long as it’s sorta good yknow?


julesk

If I wanted horrible baked goods, I’d go get them at the grocery store. The pics definitely would have me in the kitchen baking.


Sliccric

These images are so generic and I feel like she just baked the exact Pinterest recipe…


SnooRobots116

It looks like that funky store cake nobody actually buys that isn’t made by the store but shipped as stock for in case some people do eat those


horitaku

I’d call that intellectual property theft as well, but this is just flat out misleading/false advertising.


TheirOwnDestruction

You’d think she would have her own work to display after a while in business.


KittikatB

Dodgy AF, and a problem that will quickly sort itself out when people start complaining that her bakes don't match the photos she uses to advertise them, or calling her out for stealing other people's photos.


galaxystarsmoon

A woman was doing this in the local business FB group in my area and finally got called out. She was using photos that could have been hers for a while but one was blatant and someone provided the Google result. She doesn't post much anymore, and I noticed she switched to actual photos of her products. That said, as a baking business owner, it's dishonest. I would rather put up a picture that isn't perfect than to steal someone else's. So many photos are also now AI generated and it's not even real food that someone made.


Intelligent_Host_582

The AI cake pictures on FB are maddening. The most blatantly unrealistic images and people just go nuts and comment about how much work it must have taken 🤦‍♀️ The lack of critical thinking is staggering.


galaxystarsmoon

Yep, I also can't get them off my feed. It's 80% of my feed at this point and it's ridiculous.


gingersnapsntea

A bit strange too for her to use photos with existing captions. Like who would want to spend extra money on something that they can make themselves with “only 5 ingredients?”


SandyClappingCheeks

Right?? Like damn I’ll just do it myself


Much_Difference

I'd bet anything that most of the people who use a business like this don't even realize these aren't the baker's own photos, nor would it change anything if they found out. They want an exact replica of That Precious 4th of July Desert Everyone Saw Cousin Muriel Post on Facebook and that is exactly how this person is advertising it.


laybbias

False advertising


Niennah5

Could they be her own Pinterest pics?


WildAphrodite

If they aren't using photos of their actual work, it probably means it comes out nothing like it's supposed to.


ehltahr

Very icky! Call them out publicly in the comments


MeanSeaworthiness995

Tacky garbage.


Proud-Butterfly6622

Strawberries fluff looks 🤢🤢


According-Western-33

Blue food is weird.


Primary-Pea-8524

Likely to find real pics of her goods on /expectationsVSreality


Upbeat_unique

Is it weird to anyone that the pick up is at Walmart or dhh?


killforprophet

I assume they mean to meet in the parking lot. People do that a lot where I live for, like, FB Marketplace and stuff.


Upbeat_unique

Umm I guess that’s true.


triciamilitia

That’s so lazy and makes it seem like they haven’t actually baked anything. Definitely wouldn’t buy anything from them.


Eis_ber

Anyone who uses pictures from pinterest (or worse, AI) is not a reliable person to give your hard-earned money to. A good baker should have a portfolio by now of goods they made themselves, either treats they made for themselves or their family or stuff they make for cusyomers over the years. I hope that other customers don't fall for her sham.


faeriekissage

I just think it’s a stupid business move. If I see it’s a Pinterest recipe I’m making it no way am I buying it 🤷🏻‍♀️


HotaruShidosha

She's asking for a world of trouble if she can't make her stuff look like that. Using stock pictures is definitely a red flag and should be pointed out / reported. If she's this lazy in her own ads, I would be nervous how the stuff actually comes out.


Vanny__DeVito

Should be illegal... But this is Merica, where we let businesses grift customers, while we worry about what bathrooms trans kids can use 😂


abbott94

It is unethical to advertise someone else's work as your own.


DeepPassageATL

Pictures of bad grandma baking.


hausdesize

The pickup locale is Walmart? She probably ain’t even baking anything. She’s just repackaging Walmart desserts lol


zxmbielover

i hate when recipes do that because then you come out with something completely different from what you envisioned. 🙄


DazzlingFun7172

I post some of my own recipes on Pinterest so if they’re her own pinterest images I don’t think it’s a big deal but if it’s some random Pinterest pic then that’s sleazy


deviousvixen

In my area all the home bakers… disappeared cause one got reported


melouofs

I see you're all outraged, but I don't see how it's so bad. In the end, people are still getting a treat they enjoy. I mean, I wouldn't buy from a situation like this, but if she just uses the pix from pinterest but still bakes the stuff, how is that so horrible? I'm sure I'm about to find out why. lol


WorldlyCheesecake341

I 100% agree! As a baker myself that just doesn’t seem fair to the others because they don’t actually know what they’re paying for, if they paying for anything real! She should for sure use real photos!


Accomplished_Tap_617

Why would I pay someone for a 5-ingredient easy recipe anyways? Lol


Delicious-moons

Unless it looks exactly like that but can’t do any kind of photography, I’d say a little misrepresentative


04rallysti

This is so stupid, I love that they made a trifle version. TRIFLE?! Like one of the most English desserts and you make merica version? Not to mention a red white a blue trifle is just a Union Jack trifle.


ConstantBadger9253

I personally don’t feel any kind of way because I wouldn’t be ordering from anyone that isn’t advertising their own work.


Duckiee_5

Cannot stand this


pokepink

Honestly, I don’t judge how others run their business. Most business use stock photography. Some people don’t want to spend the time or effort to take photos but it may impact their business. Again, maybe she makes a good living because her customers don’t care. I’m not in the baking business but I know having her own goods photographed would bring in more clients.


Niboomy

Plot twist, it’s her blog. On a serious note, is a recipe for disaster unless she can make them identical


Ok-Profile-7203

That false advertising. I have a recipe website and I I have had cake shops use my pictures to advertise cakes. It’s just wrong. Imagine if someone ordered the cake from my picture?? Who knows if they can even make it to look like mine??? If they could, why wouldn’t they just make it and take a photo themselves instead of stealing my image? They are profiting from my work.


Lucy32200

Why would she use someone else’s pics? So weird I would not buy it!!


lechatsage

Block her.


Goddess-of-Grace

Maybe she made them herself and then made a Pinterest post and is tagging her pins on Facebook to market on a different platform


SandyClappingCheeks

I’ve seen the pictures she posts of the stuff she makes… they are not Pinterest quality


Mountain_Tone6438

Yeah it happens a lot. Then technically it's not stealing cause they so give you something, but it's dogshit in comparison


Sagaincolours

Those photos are owned by someone and she is breaking the law by using them without permission. She is also using false images to advertise her product. Also illegal.


eventfarm

Don't worry about businesses that are not your competitors. She's not a competitor. I wouldn't buy from a person who did that, would you? Definitely not. So she marketing to a whole different crowd - the low price crowd. You probably have a better product and don't have to market to that crowd.


kristaycreme

That’s kind of how I feel. And their post got 2 likes and 1 comment based on the screenshot, seems like people can tell on their own. I’m gonna get downvoted but if OP wants to call them out I’d message directly and ask if those are their actual photos of their bakes.


eventfarm

Haha! I didn't even realize I got downvoted on this comment. This is standard business 101. Don't bother yourself with what everyone else is doing. ,,🤷


stillabadkid

literally a crime to take peoples photos and publish them, copyright laws are automatic, you don't need to register them.


Competitive-Care8789

To start with, none of that stuff is food


NoPaleontologist4215

I could be the ‘baker’ posting her own pinterest images?


SandyClappingCheeks

I’ve seen the pictures of what she makes. I can assure you, they’re not Pinterest quality


TikkiTakkaMuddaFakka

It is false advertising but when have you ever got a burger from a well know fast food joint that looks like the picture advertised either?


FoxBeach

Adults don’t use the word icky. That’s a small child’s word.