A Texas family celebrates the cup of a graduate in a styrofoam cake Walmart

PASADENA, Texas – At a graduation ceremony, things went awry when a family learned that the cake they had bought was not chocolate or vanilla, but styrofoam.

Nellie Flores told KTRK-TV that she and her sister, Marsy, had ordered a graduation cake at a Walmart store in Texas last week.

The two-level cake was for Marsy's daughter who was organizing a graduation party.

When taking the cake Thursday, Nellie and Marsy learned that it had not been manufactured.

They said that a Walmart store manager had told them to choose any cake among those who were ready to leave. They took one of the cakes and put a picture on it.

Everything was fine until you cut the cake.

It was at that time that they discovered that it was polystyrene.

The family said they felt humiliated and returned to Walmart, where a manager gave them a $ 60 gift card matching the value of the cake, in addition to another gift card and a gift card. free cake (without styrofoam).

Walmart issued the following statement:

"It was the result of a misunderstanding and we tried to solve the problem with the customer by means of a gift card."