Okay, sure you wouldn’t pay 2 dollars for a cupcake at Sobey’s or Safeway or whatever, they literally just drop some cake dough in little casings and spam it with icing and package it up like so much dirty stock they have to push. A specialty store, that specializes in anything, will be more expensive. The whole “Why I wouldn’t pay that kind of dough unless it solves world hunger!” which ironically cupcakes probably could.

Dry, bland and so covered in icing that the tiny bit of cupcake is really just an excuse to coat your mouth in the sticky sugar of the icing… That’s what multi-produced cupcakes are. I’ve been to the specialty cupcake place in Edmonton, we went to a Joey Tomatoes (or something similar) and afterwards went to the cupcake place for desert. There was an amazing selection of delicious cupcakes all laid out, almost as if there was a hallelujah beam of light creeping over every last moist morsel. I had one and tried some of my friend’s cupcakes, so rich and velvety, they each melted in my mouth, sumptuous unique combinations of flavours overtook my senses… Sweet but not too sweet, perfectly moist, and each cupcake had obviously been hand decorated to perfection. Yes, I’ll pay 2.75 for a damn cupcake, the experience with something like this is totally different. You don’t buy them by the dozen and run them by a pta meeting, they’re special and wonderful. Someday I hope you, too, will enjoy the thrills that a sunday afternoon jaunt to the Cupcakery can bring.
(for price comparison http://www.cupcakebakeshoppe.ca/menu.php )

CBC page is gone! GONE! T_T So where can i get me a Obama beancake? Hmmm… I wonder who you guys want to win ;) <3 For Dune reference.

By the time they get those Maglev lines up will probably have much better technology. Perhaps its due to the economic levels of Japan not being as high as it was back when they planned the Shinkansen. The land issue is a major one too. We had a case of such when the Cdn Govt expanded the Queensway (Highway 404), and they basically stole land from farmers.

I miss read that Hachiko article as starring Richard Simmons instead of Richard Gere. It would be such a better film. Beej’s secret furries’ nature comes out? And I agree Christopher Walken needs to be in everything!

Mmm… cupcakes. They look really good. I’d probably pay for those just for the excuse to visit that store. I can’t help but laugh at the word cupcakery. Something tells me Beej has been playing Lazertag too much.