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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:07:50 -0700
marlon from private IP, post #10453224
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Juneteenth cakes
https://www.freep.com/story/money/2025/06/20/kroger-juneteenth-cakes-tiktok/84283252007/
Kroger Juneteenth cakes go TikTok viral for lack of creativity: 'This is a mockery!'
'Why even bother if you’re going to lack creativity,' the TikTok creator wrote.
Portrait of Melina KhanMelina Khan
USA TODAY
(This story has been updated to remove social media video posts)
Kroger is facing backlash on TikTok after a video of lackluster Juneteenth cakes for sale at one of the grocery store's locations went viral.
The video, which was recorded at a store in Atlanta, Georgia, showed several cakes minimally decorated in honor of the federal holiday on June 19, which marks
the 1865 emancipation of the last enslaved people in the United States.
"This is a mockery!" the creator, @blaq.monalisa, wrote in the caption of the June 18 video, which has been viewed more than ten million times as of June 20.
They added, "Why even bother if you’re going to lack creativity?"
The following day, the creator said the cakes were no longer available for purchase. USA TODAY has reached out to Kroger for comment.
Video shows lackluster Kroger Juneteenth cakes: 'Free @ last'
The Atlanta grocery store had several cakes for sale with plain designs, including lettering that said "Free @ last," "June 19 free," and one that simply said,
"Free."
"This is some bulls---," the creator said in the video. "Who the hell made this ugly a-- s---?"
The user said there were no managers around at the time, but they planned to return to the store the following day to speak to one.
"Y'all decorate everything else around here cute," the creator said. "Everything else around here cute, but for Juneteenth you wanna just throw something on a
freaking cookie cake and expect someone to buy it? That's bulls---"
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Social media reacts to Kroger's Juneteenth cakes: 'I'm highly disappointed'
Users took to the comments to agree with the creator about the uninspiring cake decorations.
"This is funny but NOT funny," one person said. "I’m highly disappointed in Kroger."
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Another said the store should "fire the whole bakery cuz that’s deliberate."
"If you didn't bring up juneteenth I would've thought it was a welcome home from jail cake," one user wrote.
Others compared it to past years of retailers missing the mark on the holiday, like Walmart's 2022 Juneteenth ice cream that was pulled from stores.
TikToker says Kroger Juneteenth cakes are no longer available
The day after posting the original video, @blaq.monalisa shared another TikTok in which they said the cakes were no longer available at the store.
"TikTok, y'all did it," they said. It's unclear whether Kroger removed the products, or if they were purchased.
"I still feel some type of way that they didn't replace it with better Juneteenth cakes," the user said in the video.
Melina Khan is a national trending reporter for USA TODAY. She can be reached at melina.khan@usatoday.com.
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:56:04 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #18005860
a vocal for you
https://voca.ro/1n4gz4jBTNt7
feel free to make one
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:00:11 -0700
marlon from private IP
Reply #11971637
u sound like that? its nice
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:03:11 -0700
marlon from private IP
Reply #17181719
just goes to show how implacable some people can be.
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:50:10 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #11065036
let’s hear your voice
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:41:45 -0700
marlon from private IP
Reply #16840108
sorry i'm too nasal, hate it
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:13:48 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #13813959
@marlonTest i want to hear it. now that you said that, i am even more curious :-P
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:00:30 -0700
marlon from private IP
Reply #11588922
u should be a voice actress, wonder if an
animated Sopranos or Godfather show could be a hit, haha
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:24:08 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #15408824
@marlonTest eek i dont have a jerseylicious accent
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:39:07 -0700
marlon from private IP
Reply #19040234
all sounds the same to my cornball midwestern ear
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:47:03 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #15608298
@marlonTest nope. i don't speak with an east coast accent which is the common
accent on all those shows that is shared by people of many ethnicities not just italians on the east coast. i dont say cahwfee or dawg or tawk.
these are accents on the east coast. nobody talks like this here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGrJZqXbTYg
flash forward to 4 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uivMtX3KDss
we have no defined accent on the north side of chicago. also those snl skits with da bears were a southside of chicago accent.
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:52:59 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #15749375
these are southside of chicago accents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGyR-uGM6KQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtXF0GsLsIk
southside accent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc8Laf0ds6g
differences between north and south side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU49_Ym1-co
woman who has a chicago accent, but states the accent the accent did is a southside one.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JE2IHoHJrRg
this is somebody who speaks normal north side https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Tx5_STuU1s
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:54:26 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #18135207
long story short, this is a girl speaking in a normal north side of chicago accent. you can see its very very neutral. nothing like a southside of chicago
accent and definitely nothing like an east coast accent. the majority of people here speak like her.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Tx5_STuU1s
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:09:35 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #11494864
here is yet another example of a jersey accent which would be shown on the hypothetical shows you speak of https://www.tiktok.com/@lovehousewivesreality/video/7257138066442308907
Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:47:06 -0700
marlon from private IP
Reply #15862876
Sugar sets me straight again, i should be ashamed
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