Evil Cupcake Update

[mark_asphodel]

 So.

Faygo Cupcakes.

The Red Pop ("Strawberry") one was pretty good.  Probably the best thing I've had from that bakery, even if it wasn't freshly baked.  The Orange one was fine; my most excellent spouse described it as "inoffensive."

The Grape one... well, when I was a kid, I loved "grape" flavored stuff, mostly because it was purple and I'm old enough that I remember a time before blue-colored kiddie food was widely available.  When I was seven-and-a-half we went to the Grand Canyon and I got a stick of grape off-brand Chapstick ("Chap-et") from a gas station, which I treasured for some years thereafter.  If I could resurrect that chapstick and mash it into some Play-dough, that might approximate the texture and scent of the icing on these violently violet little cakes.  That thing was vile.  I ate one quarter of a fairly small cupcake and felt nauseated for at least an hour thereafter.  It was not food.

I am, as you might have noticed, fairly adventurous with food on both the high-end and the bargain-basement end of the quality spectrum.  Grape Faygo Cupcakes are the nastiest thing I have tried in quite some time.

Comments

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Those muscat gummies are divine. But yeah, not a cake flavor in the slightest.

Grape flavor is so nasty to me these days that I wonder how I ever could have gravitated towards it.

[writerawakened.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of a Dave Chappelle skit.

Grape drink: Sugar, water, purple.