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News & ArtsFriday, May 29, 2009
Chow Also Today in Cupcakes
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:03 PM
IN ADDITION, Megan says Trophy Cupcake is opening in U Village this weekend. They're not Megan's ultimate favorite either: Sugar Rush is. (Myself, I prefer pie.)
Christ on a cupcake, WHEN WILL IT END?!
Sugar Rush cupcakes photographed by Kelly O.
UPDATE! Gold Star Comment goes to the one and only COMTE:
...Pirates eat pie; sissies eat cake. Vagabonds and ruffians eat pies while sloshing down pints of strong ale and singing filthy sea-shanties; inbred aristocrats nibble cakes while drinking tiny cups of weak tea and discussing the breed lines of emaciated little rat-faced dogs.Pies are stuffed with hearty fillings, like mince-meat, four-and-twenty blackbirds, or that nasty judge from down the lane whom you haven't seen for quite some time - and who probably ate cake. What are cakes filled with? Custard and jam....
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It will only end after an armistice in the long fought internecine Pastry Wars. And past history should show us not to piss off the Strudel faction in the process.
4
@3 I'm not sure that market is oversaturated only because Yellow Leaf (which opened just a couple weeks ago) is still selling out of cupcakes on some days. The demand's there.
5
The point of cool cupcakes is that they were vegan, tasted good, and had interesting ingredients. Throwing eggs, cream, and refined sugar in a bowl and baking it is incredibly lame, no matter how much food coloring you pour on top.
Take something cool, subtract whatever made it cool in the first place, add obscene amounts of money = Yuppie culture
Take something cool, subtract whatever made it cool in the first place, add obscene amounts of money = Yuppie culture
8
I wish even one of these cupcake shops had a decent sense of proportion when it comes to the cake-to-frosting ratio. At the local Cupcake Royale it's basically 2 to 1. Gross.
Their target market seems to be those who otherwise would sit at home eating frosting straight from the Betty Crocker can.
Their target market seems to be those who otherwise would sit at home eating frosting straight from the Betty Crocker can.
10
I hear Cupcake Royale is opening up on the Hill at 1111 Pike (or something like that).
Me, I agree, Pie is best.
Yum.
Me, I agree, Pie is best.
Yum.
12
Fuck pie. I hate pie. And fuck cupcakes.
Yeah, I said it.
Also, fuck puppies and daisies and sunshine. And love. Especially true, deep, forever-love.
But most of all, fuck pie.
Yeah, I said it.
Also, fuck puppies and daisies and sunshine. And love. Especially true, deep, forever-love.
But most of all, fuck pie.
14
@4, places like that are always popular right when they open with all the foodie hype, so I wouldn't be so sure the demand will stay up. There really are a lot of (perhaps too many) cupcake places in Seattle.
15
I made mom a mississippi mud cake for mothers day, my brother brought her a dozen cupcakes from Trophy. Everyone wanted a cupcake instead of my cake because they were so pretty. :( My cake sat in the fridge untouched. A few days later we dug into the cake I made and it was a thousand times better than the cupcakes. So there!
16
@13
Rhubarb is gross.
Pie is for faggot hipsters who think they're too cool to eat cake. And cake is for children. And I hate children.
And puppies, and true love. And pie. I hate pie.
Rhubarb is gross.
Pie is for faggot hipsters who think they're too cool to eat cake. And cake is for children. And I hate children.
And puppies, and true love. And pie. I hate pie.
17
I've got a strawberry rhubarb pie cooling on the counter as I write this. The rhubard came from my garden, as did some of the strawberries.
Cake is for effeminate, namby-pamby upper-class twits, while pie is a MANLY comestible, and I'll kick the muthafuckin' ass of any pie-hating cake-muncher from here to next weekend who says otherwise.
Pirates eat pie; sissies eat cake. Vagabonds and ruffians eat pies while sloshing down pints of strong ale and singing filthy sea-shanties; inbred aristocrats nibble cakes while drinking tiny cups of weak tea and discussing the breed lines of emaciated little rat-faced dogs.
Pies are stuffed with hearty fillings, like mince-meat, four-and-twenty blackbirds, or that nasty judge from down the lane whom you haven't seen for quite some time - and who probably ate cake. What are cakes filled with? Custard and jam.
Without frosting cake is nothing but tarted-up bread; with frosting it's like a $5 whore wearing a $1,000 mink coat.
Cake is for effeminate, namby-pamby upper-class twits, while pie is a MANLY comestible, and I'll kick the muthafuckin' ass of any pie-hating cake-muncher from here to next weekend who says otherwise.
Pirates eat pie; sissies eat cake. Vagabonds and ruffians eat pies while sloshing down pints of strong ale and singing filthy sea-shanties; inbred aristocrats nibble cakes while drinking tiny cups of weak tea and discussing the breed lines of emaciated little rat-faced dogs.
Pies are stuffed with hearty fillings, like mince-meat, four-and-twenty blackbirds, or that nasty judge from down the lane whom you haven't seen for quite some time - and who probably ate cake. What are cakes filled with? Custard and jam.
Without frosting cake is nothing but tarted-up bread; with frosting it's like a $5 whore wearing a $1,000 mink coat.
20
I give full credit for my inspiration where credit is due: alcohol and Tater Tots.
And of course, pie.
And of course, pie.
22
Sorry @21, but I'm straight and far too old to be a hipster. And there wasn't even a whisper of meter or rhyme in there, although I will cop to a bit of alliteration, irony and simile.
Besides everybody knows poetry is for cake-eaters. Byron, Shelley, Keats & Tennyson all ate cake. Eliot & Frost ate cake, although neither would admit it in public. Maya Angelou has special cakes custom-made and shipped overnight to her via Fed-Ex.
Novelists eat pie. Hemingway ate pie. Shakespeare, and Dante at pie, as did Cervantes and Diderot. Scott and Zelda were known to gorge on pie until they puked. Pynchon and Heller would frequently engage in pie-eating contests (Heller had a slight lead at the time of his death in 1999). Chabon has been rumored to eat nothing BUT pie. Tom Wolfe prides himself on never having spilled so much as a morsel of pie on his immaculate attire. Even Capote, long believed to be an effete cakeist, was spotted on more than one occasion while on a book-signing tour sneaking into a Marie Callender's, only to emerge hours latter, his shirt collar stained with blackberry juice and flecks of meringue stubbornly clinging to his lapels.
Besides everybody knows poetry is for cake-eaters. Byron, Shelley, Keats & Tennyson all ate cake. Eliot & Frost ate cake, although neither would admit it in public. Maya Angelou has special cakes custom-made and shipped overnight to her via Fed-Ex.
Novelists eat pie. Hemingway ate pie. Shakespeare, and Dante at pie, as did Cervantes and Diderot. Scott and Zelda were known to gorge on pie until they puked. Pynchon and Heller would frequently engage in pie-eating contests (Heller had a slight lead at the time of his death in 1999). Chabon has been rumored to eat nothing BUT pie. Tom Wolfe prides himself on never having spilled so much as a morsel of pie on his immaculate attire. Even Capote, long believed to be an effete cakeist, was spotted on more than one occasion while on a book-signing tour sneaking into a Marie Callender's, only to emerge hours latter, his shirt collar stained with blackberry juice and flecks of meringue stubbornly clinging to his lapels.
23
Weellllll, that's too bad. I love faggot hipsters. <3
It's just that pie is on a very long list of things that make me cry.
So, fuck pie.
It's just that pie is on a very long list of things that make me cry.
So, fuck pie.
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