Ms Cupcake arrives on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

[Johnny Canuck3]

They look fucking horrible to be honest - big sickly globbets of bilious icing. .

Imagine washing one of those down with a Starbucks cappuccino: yikes!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I hate the word cupcake.

In some places, the word is used as a synonym for 'vagina'.

As in, I'd like to munch on your cupcake. It's pretty lewd, lurid.

[Lurid, is to be my word of the day.]

 

[miss minnie]

If you come to Vancouver, I'll be sure not to take you to Denman Street, or you would behold this:

Yes: lurid cupcakes.

Its ok JC, London has had cupcake shops for years already.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

She seems like quite an eccentric person running a tiny business that's not really like anything else around here - good luck to her, I say. I like the idea that Brixton's entrepreneurial eccentrics can run from The Baron to Ms Cupcake.

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Oh come on: you must be able to come up with at least one negative thing to say.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Its ok JC, London has had cupcake shops for years already.

But not lurid cupcakes, surely?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Well, when she gets running water sorted I will try her wares, mainly because I'm wondering how a cake can be made without eggs or butter. She seems to be doing well elsewhere so they can't be inedible.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

There's a disturbing little shop in Brent Cross which sells objects which are artfully designed to look exactly like fairy (or cup) cakes, down to the hundreds and thousands and glace cherries, but are actually intended for dropping into a bath to scent the water and make it unpleasantly oily. They cost a couple of pounds each, the same as a proper, edible, cup (or fairy) cake. The shop seemed to be doing a fairly good trade.

 

[miss minnie]

But not lurid cupcakes, surely?

london cupcake shops

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

There's a disturbing little shop in Brent Cross which sells objects which are artfully designed to look exactly like fairy (or cup) cakes, down to the hundreds and thousands and glace cherries, but are actually intended for dropping into a bath to scent the water and make it unpleasantly oily. They cost a couple of pounds each, the same as a proper, edible, cup (or fairy) cake. The shop seemed to be doing a fairly good trade.

Maybe there's something about the cupcake shape that is inherently pleasing to the human being.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

london cupcake shops

Well then why all the disapproving clucking of the mother hens on this thread, about this shop?

 

[trashpony]

There's a disturbing little shop in Brent Cross which sells objects which are artfully designed to look exactly like fairy (or cup) cakes, down to the hundreds and thousands and glace cherries, but are actually intended for dropping into a bath to scent the water and make it unpleasantly oily. They cost a couple of pounds each, the same as a proper, edible, cup (or fairy) cake. The shop seemed to be doing a fairly good trade.

With the sort of people who enjoy shopping Brent Cross probably. I do not include either you or I in that category

 

[miss minnie]

We've even got "the home of quality American baking in London" where you can order online 24/7 thus allaying any panic over lack of lurid cupcakes.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

london cupcake shops

ps: I think ours are more lurid than yours.

http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1...&q=vancouver+cupcake+shops&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

Well, when she gets running water sorted I will try her wares, mainly because I'm wondering how a cake can be made without eggs or butter.

Yaffle Cafe above Soundbites in Derby sells cupcakes which are vegan(the whole premises is). They taste fine to me. I've got no idea how they make them but they taste fine to me.

 

[miss minnie]

Well then why all the disapproving clucking of the mother hens on this thread, about this shop?

Its called 'opinions' Johnny. People have them. Even about cupcakes. And shops.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

We've even got "the home of quality American baking in London" where you can order online 24/7 thus allaying any panic over lack of lurid cupcakes.

Well, you got us beat there. About the only thing you can order for delivery 24/7 in Vancouver, is illegal drugs.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

We've even got "the home of quality American baking in London" where you can order online 24/7 thus allaying any panic over lack of lurid cupcakes.

They sell Whoopie pies. Is it a typo in a Frank Spencer recipe?

 

[miss minnie]

Well, you got us beat there. About the only thing you can order for delivery 24/7 in Vancouver, is illegal drugs.

Well perhaps Ms Cupcake could win a coup if she provided lurid 50's hash cupcakes to order 24/7.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Its called 'opinions' Johnny. People have them. Even about cupcakes. And shops.

Yes but such predictable opinions. Something new = bad.

You can be sure that most of the people with opinions haven't tried this shop. From the sounds of it, it isn't even open yet: no running water or something.

Oh well, it wouldn't be U75 if it were otherwise.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Well perhaps Ms Cupcake could win a coup if she provided lurid 50's hash cupcakes to order 24/7.

Hash is one thing you can't really get here, so maybe.

 

[miss minnie]

Yes but such predictable opinions. Something new = bad.

You can be sure that most of the people with opinions haven't tried this shop. From the sounds of it, it isn't even open yet: no running water or something.

Oh well, it wouldn't be U75 if it were otherwise.

I'm reading that people aren't keen on "cupcakes". They are allowed to not like cupcakes. People who don't like cupcakes might also hold an opinion as to a shop that sells cupcakes exclusively without having to try the cupcakes because, as stated, "they don't like cupcakes" and probably won't try them even if the shop was open. I think that is ok. It doesn't bother me as much as it bothers you.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'm reading that people aren't keen on "cupcakes". They are allowed to not like cupcakes. People who don't like cupcakes might also hold an opinion as to a shop that sells cupcakes exclusively without having to try the cupcakes because, as stated, "they don't like cupcakes" and probably won't try them even if the shop was open. I think that is ok. It doesn't bother me as much as it bothers you.

I know. It's fine.

I just knew when I saw the op, what would follow. The disapproving comments. The snide offhand remarks.

'A cupcake store you say? Here in Brixton?'

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Anyway, I'm spoiling the mood. You folks carry on ..... where were we?

Oh yes: lurid...... thick layers of sickly topping.......

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It's a Monday morning Johnny. A good moan is obligatory.

 

[miss minnie]

I know. It's fine.

I just knew when I saw the op, what would follow. The disapproving comments. The snide offhand remarks....

... the arrival of someone who doesn't live in the area to distort the discussion and be condescending to everyone... yep, wouldn't be urban otherwise.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

With the sort of people who enjoy shopping Brent Cross probably. I do not include either you or I in that category

I go to Brent Cross at least every couple of months so I must be getting some sort of pleasure from it. And I genuinely like the John Lewis. It aims to have a mid-priced example of everything that anyone could possibly want, ever, set out in a sober and logical fashion, and it more or less succeeds.

 

[Orang Utan]

Twee bollocks

 

[Orang Utan]

Ornamental food can fuck right off

 

[trashpony]

I go to Brent Cross at least every couple of months so I must be getting some sort of pleasure from it. And I genuinely like the John Lewis. It aims to have a mid-priced example of everything that anyone could possibly want, ever, set out in a sober and logical fashion, and it more or less succeeds.

See I've always pictured you as one of the harassed looking men I see in there, rather than one of the ones with a slightly glazed rictus grin. I'm disappointed I've got you so wrong.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

My rictus grin isn't just slightly glazed, it's piled stupa-like with buttercream and dotted with vermicelli.