Does this cake look like a Minion? Credit: TikTok / @babygirls0s0

Who knew so many readers would empathize with a mom’s ire over a botched birthday cake?

Despite plenty of harder-hitting news going on this week — from the World Series to Texas lawmakers’ wrangling over school vouchers — the Current‘s most-read story of the week was on a viral video in which a Texas mom scolds an H-E-B bakery for screwing up her child’s birthday cake. It was supposed to look like one of the animated Minion characters, but kinda looked like a blue, green and yellow mess.

Perhaps enough of us have been through the experience and know just how tricky it is to get everything right for a kid’s themed birthday party.

Also of note this week was a story about NBA legend Charles Barkley trying to rib Spurs newcomer Victor Wembanyama about his city’s overindulgence in churros. Only one problem though: Wemby apparently hadn’t yet learned what churros are.

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1. Texas mom’s video complaining about botched H-E-B cake goes viral

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This article appears in Nov 1-14, 2023.