a screenshot of a food website
Source: Publix Super Markets, Incorporated.

What Is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 303

What? No fireworks?!?

For this edition of this popular game, can you guess what you believe is wrong — or, at least, seemingly quite bizarre — with this screen shot part 303?

As I was reading the weekly advertisement that was released by Publix — which is a chain of supermarkets in the southeastern United States — for its recent Memorial Day sale, I noticed something that I thought was rather bizarre.

What Is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 303

a screenshot of a food website
Source: Publix Super Markets, Incorporated.

Please submit your answers in the Comments section below — and I enjoy reading creative answers.

Thank you in advance. As always, I cannot wait to read your answer and feedback.

Answer to What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 302

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Photograph ©2025 by Matthew Cohen.

During a recent business trip while staying at the W Los Angeles – West Beverly Hills hotel property in California, Matthew Cohen took a photograph of a sign and asked me “What is wrong with this photograph?”. Apparently, the capital letter R was peeled off of the sign; and someone used the capital letter I to scrawl in something that supposedly resembles the capital letter R to spell STAR WAY.

Favorite answer by derek: “First, the positive, what is right with this photo. The fire is so intense that it has burnt the top of the stairs in the photo, it seems!

“What’s wrong is the speeling and the corrected spelling. The correct word is ‘stairway’, not ‘staiway’ or ‘starway’. The starway is presumably on the roof, where people look at stars but you can see the fire has burned the top of the stairs!

“Also possibly wrong is the braille translation. It’s almost right but the first letter is chipped and the translation is not exact word per word, but close.

“Curious, where is DEI? There is no woman on the sign. Have they run first or did the man push his way and left them behind?”

Favorite comment by Jim F.: “Derek always seems to beat me to the punch with his witty replies. ‘Inquiring minds want to know…’ (with regard to this week’s picture): (1) was there ever an ‘R’ in the void between the ‘I’ and ‘W’ that dropped off the sign somehow and (2) what was the intent of the person who tried to turn the ‘I’ into an ‘R’ — if the intent was truly to make the word ‘starway,’ the figure on the steps is going the wrong direction (stars are usually up, not down).”

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Source: Publix Super Markets, Incorporated.

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  1. I see Memorial Day as a patriotic American federal holiday but many of the items are foreign. The fruit tarts have European cream, bread is Italian style, hamburger buns are French style. To top it off, “star-spangled” is more compatible with Independence Day or Flag Day, not Memorial Day.

    The hamburger is sort of out of place as it is not sweet and not really a “tasty treat from the bakery”.

    Not quite related, but a tangential thought, is that the idea of Memorial Day is observed in many countries under a different name and date. Examples are Remembrance Day in Canada, ANZAC Day in Australia, Tomb Sweeping Day in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China. To some extent, it’s similar to All Saint’s Day in France where people visit the cemetery.

  2. I don’t understand why Publix disguises their brownies to look like cupcakes. And that is one gargantuan hamburger! Do you have to slice it like a cake? Maybe that is why it is with the cakes and tarts.

  3. Beside the odd capitalization (where “from” is usually capitalized but sometimes not) and punctuation (last time I checked, “A star-spangled weekend” was a phrase, not a sentence), there’s the odd “sale” language — everything is “up to” a certain savings amount; isn’t there a standard “shelf” price for these items? And is “Publix (shouldn’t it have an apostrophe to indicate possessive use) Original Recipe” THE “original recipe” for Key Lime Pie, or did/does Publix have a non-original recipe? After all this, I have a nagging suspicion that I’m missing the forest for the trees. Is there some glaring/obvious/flagrant mistake I’m overlooking?

  4. Jim F. points out the lack of an apostrophe with Publix, there is also the incorrect use of one in French Hamburger Buns’. I’m still trying to determine what those buns possess.

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