Ms Cupcake arrives on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

[dessiato]

Fancy macaroons look so very beautiful. The classic Laduree type.

Google tells me that you can substitute egg white by dissolving a tbsp of plain agar powder in 1 tbsp water. Whip, chill and whip again.

WANT!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Fancy macaroons look so very beautiful. The classic Laduree type.

Google tells me that you can substitute egg white by dissolving a tbsp of plain agar powder in 1 tbsp water. Whip, chill and whip again.

They look disgusting. (I'm obviously not a fan of macaroons )

Would make good Christmas tree decorations though

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I had never heard of cupcakes until they turned up on The Apprentice when a bunch of spotty teenage would-be yuppies was making and trying to sell them in the street at the kind of price for each cake that would buy a whole meal in any decent greasy spoon cafe.

How do these daft fads and fashions get started and promoted? Why are some people so vulnerable to this kind of crap?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I had never heard of cupcakes until they turned up on The Apprentice when a bunch of spotty teenage would-be yuppies was making and trying to sell them in the street at the kind of price for each cake that would buy a whole meal in any decent greasy spoon cafe.

How do these daft fads and fashions get started and promoted? Why are some people so vulnerable to this kind of crap?

Watching too much American tv like Friends, Sex and the City apparently (and thinking Americans are cool)

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

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

Maybe. Now that it's Monday morning for me, I'm a touch more sympathetic.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Are these things a big hit with schoolkids? .

They're a big hit with women. They're the sort of thing that get taken to an office on Secretary's Day; or Friday, for that matter.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

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Watching too much American tv like Friends, Sex and the City apparently (and thinking Americans are cool)

I watch too much American tv as well. That is because there is too much American tv on our screens. Sometimes when the actors are speaking too fast I wish we could have British English subtitles on the screen.

 

[Melinda]

Oh dear Minnie- despising Laduree macaroons while advocating bus travel.

*sniff*

 

[salem]

They're a big hit with women. They're the sort of thing that get taken to an office on Secretary's Day; or Friday, for that matter.

Secretary's Day?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Muffins

Blueberry muffin:

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I watch too much American tv as well. That is because there is too much American tv on our screens. Sometimes when the actors are speaking too fast I wish we could have British English subtitles on the screen.

So do I, but luckily, I don't aspire to be one, talk like one or eat like one

I quite often put subtitles on whilst watching American programmes

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Muffins

We call these 'English Muffins' as opposed to regular muffins.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Oh dear Minnie- despising Laduree macaroons while advocating bus travel.

*sniff*

Too sweet for me I'm afraid. Give me a chocolate eclair or jam and cream doughnut instead please

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Secretary's Day?

Exactly. Never heard of it, although if it means a day of pampering once a week for secretaries, it's one American fad I wouldn't object to, unless of course it involved buying Krispy Kremes and cupcakes, in which case, bosses could shove them up their arses and give me a pay rise instead

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It's the ludicrously baroque and overabundant icing that I have a problem. All that fuss for something that's over in a matter of seconds

Like your lovemaking, you mean?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Like your lovemaking, you mean?

That's already old and crusty. Was done way back in the thread

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

A bit like sex, no?

Ah: beat me to it - no pun intended.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

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Watching too much American tv like Friends, Sex and the City apparently (and thinking Americans are cool)

Who is it who says 'all america, all the time'?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Secretary's Day?

http://www.thesweetbasket.com/html-cat/secretary.html

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Exactly. Never heard of it, although if it means a day of pampering once a week for secretaries, it's one American fad I wouldn't object to, unless of course it involved buying Krispy Kremes and cupcakes, in which case, bosses could shove them up their arses and give me a pay rise instead

It's only once a year; and you get your secretary [or professional administrative assistant, as they're now called] whatever she/he wants, within reason.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Who is it who says 'all america, all the time'?

I don't know? Who says it?

 

[weepiper]

express your appreciation and gratitude to your most valued employees

you could always, you know, pay them more and make sure their working conditions are ok. I bet they'd like that better than a box of poxy hot chocolate dippers.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's only once a year; and you get your secretary [or professional administrative assistant, as they're now called] whatever she/he wants, within reason.

Pay rise seems within reason

 

[Ms T]

Fancy macaroons look so very beautiful. The classic Laduree type.

Google tells me that you can substitute egg white by dissolving a tbsp of plain agar powder in 1 tbsp water. Whip, chill and whip again.

No those aren't macaroons to me. This is a macaroon:

Those are macarons and they look much nicer than they taste.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No those aren't macaroons to me. This is a macaroon:

Those are macarons and they look much nicer than they taste.

Yep, that's a proper macaroon.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Pay rise seems within reason

Not if you're overpaid to start with.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Not if you're overpaid to start with.

Well there aren't many secretaries who are overpaid to start with

 

[spanglechick]

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Watching too much American tv like Friends, Sex and the City apparently (and thinking Americans are cool)

or perhaps ;liking pretty things and having a sweet tooth.

there is so much automatic anti-american snobbery on these boards. it really just makes people look close-minded and ignorant, to me.

Some things from america (eg - the power of the religious right) are very bad. Some things from america (tv dramas) are good - can't we judge each thing on it's merits without adding its provenance as a stick to beat it with? If you don't like individual sponge cakes with lots of icing and imaginative flavours and pretty decoration, then that's completely fine. I can see why people might dislike their price, or the ultra-sweetness. That's enough, though. Do you really have to add to that some kind of perjorative attitude about a whole nation?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

you could always, you know, pay them more and make sure their working conditions are ok. I bet they'd like that better than a box of poxy hot chocolate dippers.

That assumes that all assistants are underpaid with shit working conditions.

 

[spanglechick]

No those aren't macaroons to me. This is a macaroon:

Those are macarons and they look much nicer than they taste.

That's a coconut macaroon, surely.

Macaroon is just the anglicised spelling of the french 'macaron', isn't it?