Cupcakes, Why ?

[mongers]

So what's with the modern trend to having cupcakes with everything:



And now even shops just selling the things.

Are there not other sweet bakery products about, or is it simply the case of a low cost product (simple sponge and sugar topping) being sold at a high margin.

[Strix]

I think because of it's versatility. It has some many more options to it than a cookie or brownie without getting unwieldy like a cake or loaf. Also, allows someone to feel superior to someone eating a cookie or brownie.

Cheesecake was the thing not so long ago but cupcakes are cheaper and not as fattening.

[mongers]

I think because of it's versatility. It has some many more options to it than a cookie or brownie without getting unwieldy like a cake or loaf. Also, allows someone to feel superior to someone eating a cookie or brownie.

Cheesecake was the thing not so long ago but cupcakes are cheaper and not as fattening.

Ah, that's what I don't get, possibly because over here they're know as fairy cakes.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=opera&hs=Wyu&rls=en&channel=suggest&tbm=isch&q=fairy+cakes&revid=334544246&sa=X&ei=t2-pUL-VLMexhAetzYHABQ&ved=0CEEQ1QIoAA&biw=871&bih=486

[sbr]

Who in the world would feel inferior to anything while eating a brownie?  Brownies are at the top of the handheld, baked sweets hierarchy*.


Did I really spell that right?  I just threw some letters up expecting it to be wrong and use auto-correct.

[Ed Anger]

This thread is josq-like.

Not a good thing Mongers.

[Eddie Teach]

The question you should be asking is "Cupcakes, Why not?"

[PDH]

Indeed.  Go get drunk and then post about how supper is dinner but lunch too.

[mongers]

Indeed.  Go get drunk and then post about how supper is dinner but lunch too.

The issue isn't what these are called in different countries, it's that they're an inferior baked product; as was pointed out crap compared to things like brownies.

I just don't get the love for overpriced, sweet, inferior cakes.

[Ed Anger]

Indeed.  Go get drunk and then post about how supper is dinner but lunch too.

Is it a candy or a sweet?

[PDH]

Fuck it all, I am going to go get drunk and lie down in the street.

[CountDeMoney]

Don't worry, Mongers:  pretty soon the cupcakes will go away because of unions.

[Ed Anger]

Don't worry, Mongers:  pretty soon the cupcakes will go away because of unions.

Damn UAW.

[Tonitrus]

[garbon]

You've just now caught on about shops selling the things?

[mongers]

You've just now caught on about shops selling the things?

It's yet another positive of living in rural England.