I have just discovered (don't ask how, it's a long story) this picture of a cup-cake fest in my nearby city of Bristol, and I thought I would share it with all you cup-cake obsessed ladies out there in international blog-land.
Don't ask me what's going on with the centre-piece cake, but I think we can safely label it May Not Contain Nuts.
Why is the white beauty clothed, and the black one not? Actually, I'm not asking.
Too good to eat.
Ok then, a reluctant credit:
ReplyDeletePhoto: Photo: Cup Cakes, by Lyn Leese, 2004 (cake, icing, cherries), with Racial Harmony, by Quentin Bell (earthenware). Photo: 24 Hour Museum
'Racial Harmony'? Looks a bit one-sided to me, but that's Quentin Bell for you.
Gawd. White woman's burden.
ReplyDeleteYee gods! Even the cupcakes are multi-racial too!
ReplyDeleteMaybe they are multiracial nipples.
DeleteI have a depressing feeling that you're right, Ms T.
DeleteHmmm.... food for thought.
ReplyDeleteLust for the bust.
DeleteQuentin Bell? Not THE Quentin Bell; he died yonks ago.
ReplyDeleteI totally fail to understand this recent fascination for Cup Cakes. They're just cup cakes for gawd's sake; not something you devote a whole shop/culture/universe to!
I can't think who else, especially as the tableau is made of fired clay, as it turns out.
DeleteI too have been trying to fathom the worship of the cupcake without success. It seems to have been a passing, female fad which has now passed.
For some reason I was thinking it was new. Come to think of it, it does have a rather Charleston-ish look about it.
DeleteCup cakes? Surely what used be known as (the much nicer) 'fairy' cakes? Just another crap inversion of regular stuff that keeps on happening these days. But probably only grumpy old men and women notice. Not that I'm either a cup cake or a...
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