AWESOME FACTS ABOUT CUPCAKES !!!
In the last few years, the humble cupcake
has taken on new popularity. Trendy shops have opened up all over the US, and
it has become the national treat
du jour. In our continuing effort to educate the public in all
matters of taste and importance, we present the following 100% true and
well-researched facts about cupcakes.
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Most people think the term “cupcake” comes from idea that a
cupcake looks like a cake cooked in a cup. However, the truth is that cupcakes
are so named because this was a snack that could be stored inside a protective
athletic cup during baseball games. Abner Doubleday himself may have been the
first to tuck a cake there, and he was known to reach down for a nibble of his
“cup cake” even while running the bases.
The first cupcakes did not have frosting as we know it, but
instead were gilded with lard as a kind of cake-moistening gravy. Winston
Churchill was the first person to suggest a kind of sweet frosting on the top
of the cakes. He later blamed the frosting for his behemoth jowls.
While generally assumed to be about psychedelic drugs, John
Lennon’s song Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is actually about cupcakes. This
came as a surprise to all Beatles scholars because it contains no mention of
cupcakes or hidden references to them. John Lennon was later quoted in an
interview, “You never know what you’re writing when you write a song, it’s only
years later you realize the truth. You think you’re writing about other people,
but you’re really writing about cupcakes. Goo goo ga joob. Imagine. Yoko Ono.”
Although in the past
an effeminate male was referred to in a disparaging way as a “cupcake,” more
recently an effeminate male is referred to as a “cupcake” in a complimentary way!
H.P. Lovecraft blamed the creation of his most famous mythical
monster, Cthulhu, on an overdose of cupcakes. He had locked himself in his
basement with a dozen of them and eaten until the rush of sugar caused him to
hallucinate about ultimate evil. He later wrote to Robert E Howard, “As the
12th cake of cup sat on the downward stairwell that is my tongue a vision
appeared before me as plain as I see the paper in front of myself now. A
many-tentacled beast, the personification of chaos and destruction, peeking
through from another universe. Arkham Asylum. Miskatonic University.
Thinly-masked anti-semitism.”
