Ms Cupcake arrives on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

[Johnny Canuck3]

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

The ones I know make around 18,000 - 22,000 pounds approx. I wouldn't call it overpaid, but I'm not sure it's underpaid, either.

 

[spanglechick]

I don't know why i'm bothering so much - i'm not fond of buttercream, and since there'll be no marscapone toppings here, i'll probably not visit this shop... it's just the attitude that rubs me up the wrong way.

 

[strung out]

i always thought macaroons were scottish. shows what i know.

 

[RaverDrew]

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?

Well said.

Any country that serves pancakes and maple syrup as an accompaniment to a fried breakfast can't be wrong 'uns imo.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

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?

I watch loads of American programmes. I like Americans. Some of my best friends are Americans you know (that's a lie of course). I have plenty of cousins in America. I have been to America. There's lots of good about America. There's lots of bad. Same goes for this country. Stop taking my digs at America so seriously. Mostly though, I am anti-Americanisms. Enough already OK?

 

[strung out]

this reminds me...

or

?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

can't we judge each thing on it's merits without adding its provenance as a stick to beat it with?

Oh ffs: what sort of radical nonsense is this?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well said.

Any country that serves pancakes and maple syrup as an accompaniment to a fried breakfast can't be wrong 'uns imo.

Pancakes with sugar, butter and lemon are much better though

 

[Ms T]

That's a coconut macaroon, surely.

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

The French-style macarons never existed here until recently. I prefer to keep their French name - as do others, because the English-style macaroon is different. We don't anglicise croissant, after all.

I also think they look pretty, but taste a bit "meh".

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The ones I know make around 18,000 - 22,000 pounds approx. I wouldn't call it overpaid, but I'm not sure it's underpaid, either.

Yep, £18,000 was what I was offered when applying for my job (which was a PS) which had been downgraded to an AO.

£18,000 isn't exactly middle-class is it.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well said.

Any country that serves pancakes and maple syrup as an accompaniment to a fried breakfast can't be wrong 'uns imo.

Yeah, but are you talking about those small fat pancakes or the flat crepey type pancakes that we call pancakes?

 

[Biddlybee]

Maybe not quite as big , but I've always known macaroons to be coconut macaroons too - only heard of the fancy coloured french ones a few years ago - and they're a bit rubbish

 

[trashpony]

this reminds me...

or

?

Obviously the one with butter on it. Tunnocks only make one decent thing and it isn't that.

I like macaroons and macarons. But not the macarena (ey-ey-EY)

I am worried for the humble fairy cake and fear it will pass out of fashion.

 

[Biddlybee]

I am worried for the humble fairy cake and fear it will pass out of fashion.

Open a fairy cake shop

I made fairy cakes at the weekend with my niece

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I am worried for the humble fairy cake and fear it will pass out of fashion.

It won't if people stop becoming fashion victims and jumping on whatever bandwagon's currently rolling and believing what people in the media tell them as to what's in and what's out

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It won't if people stop becoming fashion victims and jumping on whatever bandwagon's currently rolling and believing what people in the media tell them as to what's in and what's out

A petition might be a good place to start.

 

[spanglechick]

The French-style macarons never existed here until recently. I prefer to keep their French name - as do others, because the English-style macaroon is different. We don't anglicise croissant, after all.

I also think they look pretty, but taste a bit "meh".

mebbee. it's eggwhitey, though - the coconut macaroon, iirc. they must've come from a similar start.

Me, I love laduree macarons/macaroons. My favourite flavours: rose, pistachio, salted caramel. I bought a big box of them last month and only saved three for my husband.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

One thing britain was never known for, was its cuisine. So now you've got people from all over the world bringing in food from their areas, and british people are jumping at the chance to eat something tasty.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

A petition might be a good place to start.

I don't give a shit. I don't let people dictate to me what's in and what's out. If I want to eat a prawn cocktail (which I wouldn't because I hate them), I'll eat it and not give a shit who says it's "soooooooooooooo 80s"

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

One thing britain was never known for, was its cuisine. So now you've got people from all over the world bringing in food from their areas, and british people are jumping at the chance to eat something tasty.

They've had the chance to eat sponge cakes with icing for donkey's years. They were just a different shape and size and called fairy cakes, butterfly cakes etc.

 

[Clair De Lune]

I don't believe in fairy cakes anymore
Every time someone bites into a cupcake, a fairy cake dies.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

mebbee. it's eggwhitey, though - the coconut macaroon, iirc. they must've come from a similar start.

Me, I love laduree macarons/macaroons. My favourite flavours: rose, pistachio, salted caramel. I bought a big box of them last month and only saved three for my husband.

I quite like the sound of pistachio macaroons

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I don't believe in fairy cakes anymore
Every time someone bites into a cupcake, a fairy cake dies.

I think you should make that into a massive advertising poster and stick it on that billboard that's just gone up in Coldharbour Lane

 

[clandestino]

I'd rather eat a cupcake than a meringue.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

They've had the chance to eat sponge cakes with icing for donkey's years. They were just a different shape and size and called fairy cakes, butterfly cakes etc.

But nothing so lurid as the modern cupcake, surely?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

But nothing so lurid as the modern cupcake, surely?

I know that's your new favourite word. I saw that post

 

[Melinda]

The French-style macarons never existed here until recently. I prefer to keep their French name - as do others, because the English-style macaroon is different. We don't anglicise croissant, after all.

I also think they look pretty, but taste a bit "meh".

I think the French type macaroons have always been available in more exclusive haunts, certainly Fortnums (and Selfridges Food Hall I think) have stocked them for aaages. But yeah, they have definitely benefited from the luxury cupcake boom. Careful choice of filling is crucial. Pistachio-vanilla cream is just mwah.

And the old lady coconut type are bleugh.

 

[trashpony]

I do love Laduree macarons but I've only eaten them when spangles has brought them because I am too stingy

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

And the old lady coconut type are bleugh.

What's old lady about them?

I don't like them either btw

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I know that's your new favourite word. I saw that post

Lurid.

Lur - id.

If you google lurid, you get this.