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Michelle,  That is too funny.  Do you think it was a buyer, the home owner or an agent holding an open house in the down time?

One on the new home builders I have been to has a beautiful chocolate cake under a glass cake dome sitting on the granite island in this drop dead gourmet kitchen. When people walk in, they are drawn to the cake, only to be told by the sales associate that it is a fake cake.

That is hillarious, wish you had the person who did it on video, could have cone for america's favorite home buyers section .

Jimmy: I know it wasn't the agent. She is way to smart and well mannered to eat the props. Not sure about the other two.

Richard: That chocolate cake will make that house more memorable. The potential buyers will refer to it as the 'chocolate cake house'.

James: I wish I had it on video too. BTW - in the same house, so I am assuming it is the same person, someone bit into some fake sugar snap peas in a bowl of fake vegetables in the kitchen. They must have been hungry!

Hilarious!  Will wonders ever cease?  It must have been someone over 50 like me who can't see without their glasses!

That's hysterical!  I cannot imagine thinking it was okay to pick up fruit in someone elses house and eat it!  What nerve.

Michelle,

Wouldn't it be humorous if the person who did it, put it back, got hungry later in the day, and forgot it was fake?

Steve

Sherry: We use really high quality props, but I bet anyone with a blindfold on could tell it wasn't real just by the feel of it.

Chris: I didn't want to offend anyone by pointing out that eating a stranger's food is rude, but you are absolutely right.

Steve: That would be even more scary, not humorous. Just when you think you've seen it all!

Michelle, it amazes me someone would try to eat it even if it was real.  I don't think I would want to eat props sitting at a home real or otherwise.  Too funny!

Michele: I agree...amazing...and not in a good way.

Actually I had buyers who had a new home built by that builder. We held settlement in the model home with the fake chocolate cake. There was a delay in settlement, it was getting close to lunch time. The sales manager ran out and bought us lunch while we waited for the loan docs to arrive. My buyer was threatening to eat the fake cake in the meantime.

Richard: I think they would have been in for a surprise. Glad the lunch got their before the mutiny.

Michelle, that was awesome. As if these people see one piece of fruit and help themselves is beyond me. Thanks, Keith 

Wow!! That just made me laugh out loud..people do some strange things..Thanks for the photo, because words simply wouldn't do it justice. 

Keith: Help themselves they did.The pear is the proof.

Justin: I like using visual aids. Helps tell the story.

Michelle:  Why my fake food looks real, I can honestly say no one has tried to take a bite!

This is absolutely hysterical!  It would be one thing if they were bites from a small child...but I don't know how many kids will eat snap peas as well...  TOO funny!

Renee: The REA was just as surprised as I was.

Connie: The snap peas were in a collander on the kitchen counter. A little kid couldn't reach it. They have wires coming out of the top to hold them together. Also, the teeth prints are big!

:)

Michelle, take it as a compliment!  Your props are so life -like - they look edible!  smile

Too funny Michelle, and a real faux pas! Some of my pears are wooden - someone may just loose a tooth if they tried this one ;-)

Maureen: ':o))

Marci: I think someone was just hungry.

Karen: I wonder if we are covered by our staging insurance for lost teeth.

Let's ask Vitus ;-)

Hi Michelle- That is very funny! I can't even imagine trying it! Where did you find faux sugar snap peas ? I am on the faux food hunt and haven't come across those :)

Wendy: There is a store here in Pasadena (Stats) that has fruit and vegetables, but only seasonally, usually only the spring and early summer. They got rid of all the fruit and veggies at the end of July so they could start selling Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations. Sorry. If I see some, I'll let you know.

Thanks anyway ! I have a lot , just haven't seen sugar snaps yet :)

Michelle: OMG! THAT is too funny!!! LOL!   I need to go check some of my faux fruit...I SWEAR I have some bite marks too but I was too dense to realize what they were until NOW!!!  LOL!

Teresa: I'm sure I am not the only one this has happened to. Feel free to post your photos if you find your fruit has been bitten.

Michelle, They're lucky they didn't break a tooth!  Fake food used to look fake, now I think it looks fabulous and I love the colors it adds!

In the person's defense... they look like little teeth!

Carole: The pear is made of high desity foam. It does look real from a distance, but if you were holding it up to your face to bite it, you could see it was fake. I think fake fruit brings low maintenace energy and life to a room when used correctly.

Kristina: They are actually pretty big teeth marks, but that might not be clear from the photo.

I bet it was a joke.

Richard, using a cake like that isn't the smartest idea.  People will remember the cake and not the kitchen

Now you tell me after my third fruit basket Michelle, where were you 2 days ago... 

Fake food does have nutritional value to fake people. You get fake vitamins and fake minerals. So, let Hollywood enjoy!

I enjoyed this post immensely.  You have earned a new subscriber tonight.  Hilarious!

LOL...GREAT stuff...thanks for sharing!

Now that is funny - I can't imagine someone doing that!  I guess you learn something new everyday!

Michelle, are you sure it wasn't a "pair" of people that tried to bite it?

Michelle:  Perhaps another sign could have been used that said that it was fake food, very tasteless, and should only be eaten by fake people with fake teeth.  :)

This is hysterical... it reminds me of an I Love Lucy episode that I remember with lucy eating wax grapes on Ricky's boss' wife's coffee table.  Maybe stagers will need to start placing warning signs near fake fruit.  I am still laughing here. 

That person must have been on drug or very hungry.

It would have been funny for you to catched it on camera!

good lord, that is funny.  ever try a fake beer can?

chris

Way too funny!  It makes me wonder if the fruit was real what would have been left!

Kinda 'toopid that any adult would attempt to bite into a fake pear or any fruit for that matter. Musta left their brains out in the car...

Thats too funny.  That happened to a girlfriend of mine at her house. But, it was a child that took the bite.

Oh my.  Well... they obviously look real.  I would take this as a compliment (smile).

Kathy

Michelle ~ That is unbelievable!  And then to try it a second time . .  . makes you wonder!  A builder I did work for back in May was telling me that a couple of years ago they had models done and the designer had used faux food and people took the faux food!!  

Ah...I remember the plastic fruit bowls..they were big in the 70's....I always wondered what it would feel like to leave my bite marks in a piece...not for the taste but for the feel and so...I admit it...I did...that might have been my baby teeth:)

LOL. My husband stages some specs and people do amazing things to fake food. We use to use full boxes of cerial ETC but it was all stolen!!!!

Hilarious post!

Michelle

Now that is funny. I would love to see someone do that just to get the face value.

Sincerely

Tom Braatz

That's funny. I was at my brother's a few weeks ago and my sister in law had a bowl of pears on the table.  We were eating breakfast and I picked one up and realized that it was fake. I'm just glad I figured it out before I bit it.  Some of the fake food looks amazingly real.

OMG, that is too funny. Bwahahahha.  I think it's funny the first time...  But to bite it again??   Must be a pretty good fake.  Thanks for the laugh. 

Too funny

Regina

Hilarious!!  I guess we have yet another disclosure to post for our potential buyers!! - Don't eat the (fake) food!

   I will have to run right out and check my fruit bowls...and then there are the grapes and vines that trim the kitchen ...better count the grapes...Yicks !

What a great story and wonderful post - I like your wry humor A LOT!

That's funny. Seriously, they must have been pretty hungry. But who does that? Even if it were real? You go into someone's house and steal eat their food?

Where is your sense of adventure, Lady!  Why were they stealing food any way.  I understand a candy jar sitting out is for the taking but fruit?  You gotta really want it!

LOL, I think I've seen everything now in staging. I've had people sleep in my beds, break my accessories and now eating the fake food.

Goldilocks seems to have grown up and is looking at buying a house...but she's obviously up to her same tricks! 

Michelle, way too funny for words. You'll have to put a sign up, "Please do not eat the (fake) fruit!"

Hi Michelle, LOL this is so funny.   It is amazing what people will do.  They should bring candid camera back for staged homes.

I'm assuming someone was either trying to be humorous or was very very hungry.  BTW, the pear does look real.

This is really really funny! Whoever bit it was like a great white shark...the first bite wasn't so good, so he tried again...

Hi Michelle,  Well, you just made my day !  I have seen some of this stuff and I can understand why someone would be fooled into thinking it is real.   Too funny.

I have the biggest smile on my face right now.  That picture is priceless!  Thanks for sharing.

Paul: So it was you! Didn't the foam particles between your teeth give it away?

Fred: Ha ha (fake laugh:o))

Jason C.: Thank you!

Jason R: You're most welcome. Thank you

Anonymous Poster: People do some strange stuff.

Charles: Ick! Would you bite into a piece of fruit someone else had bitten and discarded? I don't even eat fruit I haven't washed first.

Karen: Funny!

Steve: It does remind me of an I Love Lucy gag. I'm glad I gave you a good laugh.

Stephanie: I do wish I had a hidden camera there.

Chris: Now that would be funny! Do you think someone would actually drink out of an open can sitting on a table?

Rick: They probably would have left just the cores rotting in the bowl.

Michael: Brain was definitely not engaged!

Mary: I could understand a child doing it, but not an adult.

Kathy N: I would have rather they wrote me a note of appreciation :o))

Kathy P: Last year, one of my stagings got broken into. They stole the kitchen table and chairs and a bowl of fake vegetables, among a few other things. They didn't take any high value stuff. I can understand the table and chairs, but not the fake veggies.

Neal: You naughty boy!

Laura: I don't know what makes people think it is OK to steal things. Maybe they think cereal is relatively inexpensive so it doesn't count. I have a hard time taking a peppermint from the bowl at the restaurant register.

Andy: Thanks!

Tom: Sounds like we need to call Candid Camera (is that still on the air?)

Jen: Glad you didn't, also. It would have been talked about at every family Thanksgiving dinner for the next 20 years.

Margaret: Wow, glad you enjoyed my post.

Regina: Thanks.

Marcia: Oh my Goodness. Not another disclosure!

Sally & David: You just never know where the fruit biter will strike again!

Tara: Thank you. That is very nice of you to say!

Susan: I am always amazed at the little things that get stolen from our staged homes. They must be thinking "I want it, therefore I will take/steal it. No one will notice".

Melody: Bad manners, I guess. I wouldn't do it, but apparently some others think it is OK.

Dane: A builder's wife used every towel in every bathroom in house we staged. 5 bathrooms. I assume it was the wife because every towel had the same color of make-up on it. I was totally grossed out. There was no call to do that but she just didn't care.

Michael: If someone is that dumb, maybe a sign would be wasted on them.

Karen: I agree.

Diane: If that is the case, they need to find a new way to entertain themselves. We use very high quality props in our stagings. We want it to look real, but if you pick them up, it is clear they are fake. Also, the inventory control number on the bottom might be a giveaway.

Jennifer: Apparently this person has a slow ability to learn an adapt.

Bill: Making your day, made my day!

Leah: Always a good thing to be able to put a smile on someone's face. Glad you liked the photo.

Whew, I made it through the list. Thanks everyone for commenting. I apologize if I missed anyone.

Michele - that is so funny - actually looks like something I might do - I can't be trusted around food.

btw - I bought some great looking fruit and loaves of bread at the Dollar Store here in Mesquite.

Well, it ads to the real look and feel of the faux, don't you think?  So funny.  Thanks for sharing,  t

Virginia: Hopefully you can be trusted around fake food. Thanks for the tip about the Dollar Store.

Terrylynn: I'm glad it was only one pear. They could have tried several if they weren't convinced with the first one.

This is really hilarious, if not for the fact that the visitors are either hungry or lack manners, considering the adult teeth marks. What will they sink their teeth into next?

Thanks, Michelle!  I needed a good laugh today.  I am amazed that someone (especially an adult) would think it is okay to eat food in a home they are viewing to purchase.  Some people's children....

Oh my gosh!  Thanks for bringing me a smile today, Michelle - the things that people will do sometimes just leave me shaking me head.  My mom called it "home training" and it's apparent that so many don't have any.

That is too funny. You would have thought the person knew the first time they bit that it was fake -- but they had to try it a second time.

Sherry: Lacking manners, indeed. After their snack, maybe they want to take a nap in the staged bed:o))

Nancy: I guess their parents never taught them good manners. Hopefully they learned a lesson from the fake pear.

Lisa: Home training...I love it. It is like paper training for humans!

Bob & Carolin: Maybe they knew they were doing something they shouldn't have been doing so they tried to do it really quickly. The first bite was followed by a fast second one without time for the fact that it was fake to register.

TOO funny!!!!

Thanks Steve for reminding me about that Lucy episode!!!!

Kristen: I hope I haven't started a rash of jokesters biting into fake fruit during open houses!

The things people will do sometimes???

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