An eight-year-old boy in Quebec was looking forward to celebrating his birthday with a cake with the favorite team’s logo on it. Unfortunately he got this instead.
This kid wanted a Maple Leafs cake for his birthday and got one for packaged meat instead
Welp.
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
Rather than the logo being that of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL, instead the family opened the box to see the logo for Maple Leaf Foods — a Toronto-based company which largely specialized in pre-packaged lunch meat.
Now, as an adult I can safely say most cold cuts excite me more than sports teams, but for a kid I totally get it. Jacob’s mom Tania explained the family had “a good laugh” over the cake, telling the CBC that the kids at her son’s birthday party were a little confused by it all, “they don’t know anything about cold cuts,” she said.
This story might have had a bizarre beginning, but an exceedingly happy ending. Seeing photos of the cake go viral, Maple Leaf Foods are now sending the family to a Maple Leafs game ... and also stocking them up with plenty of cold cuts.
Free meat is the best meat.
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