The Cupcake Craze Finally Died

And it hasn't shown any signs of revival.

Seems like it got popular in the post-9/11 era when there was an increase in consumption of comfort foods such as ice cream. Some of the cupcake businesses involved in the craze started in NYC.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324345804578425291917117814

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/07/08/saying-goodbye-to-crumbs-is-the-cupcake-fad-over-yet/?utm_term=.acfb70bf873b

The bacon craze in the U.S. is still going strong.

 

You're a weird guy.

These articles are from 2 and 3 years ago,.

 

i had no idea there was a cupcake craze. i feel like i've seen way fewer cupcakes since 9/11 than i did before.

 

I’ve never actually watched Cupcake Wars on the Food Network but scrolling through the stations with remote I’ve occasionally come across it


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"once there was a man, who thought he was a man, but he was a muffin"-f. zappa.

 

coloring books are the new craaze

 

several of the artists i 'know' from online make those adult coloring books. by which i don't mean porn ones, though it wouldn't surprise me if someone made those too, but i mean like realistic scenes, of gardens and hippie houses and of course anthro/furry people, and other terrestrial and extraterrestrial life forms. i've also seen these in places like barns and noble and also smaller independent book stores.

 

Definitely

https://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=adult%20coloring%20books&search=Find+book

 

Cupcakes are delicious.

 

The cupcake is a lie...

 

Cupcake frosting is infected with brain eating amoebas.

 

There is definitely still a cupcake craze. Several bakeries that specialize in cupcakes around here.

 

well actually i hadn't heard of a cupcake thing either, but i just figured like most things that i hear about for the first time that were supposed to have been a big thing somewhere, that somewhere must have been some other part of the world or at least of the country. which is always at least possible.

i remember in the 80s there was a big popularity thing with muffins though. that was also when you could get chocklet nufchatelle and mouse classique at an ordinary grocery store, and lapsong souchong in the tea isle. at any rate, the grown up coloring book thing, that's something i am seeing now, where live, in northern nevada, which is one state away from the pacific coast and reno being less then a hundred miles from donner summit, the top of my northern california mountains. now being 2016, incase anyone necros this five years from now.

 

The UK had a cupcake thing! And then the adult colour book craze, now, who knows!

 

the u.s. must be falling a bit behind these days then. no surprise that.

 

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