Applause for Terry Tang, an AP reporter who used to write excellent stories for the Weekly like this one, and is now living in Arizona. One of her recent stories is now being splashed all over the place. The hot topic? Frosting shots. As in little cups of sugary goop you can slurp down if you don't feel up to eating the whole cupcake. Criminy.Terry is a terrific writer and I love her toothbrush lead. But the topic kind of makes my lip curl. I can understand the appeal of food in miniature. Sometimes things just look more appealing when they're cut down to doll size, as in every teensy Japanese cookie you ever bought because of the packaging.
But frosting. My incisors hurt. I'd be stunned to find this in Europe, where all the desserts are so much better simply because they're less tooth-achingly sweet, leaving room for actual flavor. OK, I'm a Eurosnob. I should just emigrate now and be done with it.
Is the frosting-shot fad a symptom of America's short attention span, or its obsession with over-sweetening, or its obesity epidemic? I guess we can all find out for ourselves when Sprinkles opens at Stanford Shopping Center in August.
Cupcake photo from Wikipedia.
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