The children adults of the boom era may be financially insolvent, morally bankrupt, and voluntary slaves serving their bankster masters, but … they do have fun with their food. I have come across yet another way for grown-ups to stayed amused by playing with their food … only in cones. You can’t sit in a [...]

This is a delightful and hilarious rundown of some irritating food trends from Chris Schott. Number 2 gets a huge nod from me. 2. Cupcakes Need I even explain this one? Dainty shops specializing in the miniature frosted desserts now seem more common than the corner Chinese-chicken-pizza-subs carry-outs that have dominated D.C. for decades. In [...]

Folks may know how I like to pick on the cupcake craze because I see it as just one of many boom-bust absurdities that were born during the years of excess spawned by government monetary policy that encouraged and triggered credit addiction and high time preferences. During the boom years, we saw the rise of [...]

More childish cupcakeism. I think the pastor samples a lot of his own baked goods.

Don’t get me wrong – I think these marketing folks are geniuses who know all too well the composition of their target audience. Americans are so sugar-addicted and are therefore resistant to real, whole, healthy foods. Additionally, modern culture embraces the lifelong adolescent while praising the ageless infant in an adult body. So to get Americans [...]

My roving reporter on all things infantile, Skip Oliva, turned up another good one – the SweetHaus. There are whimsical touches throughout the store with jars of brightly colored candies, old doors and windows converted to banquettes and display cases, a candy mural, and my favorite chandelier of all time. So I was in love [...]

Since the Krispy Kreme delusions have floundered here in the US, the Brits have captured the euphoria. What is more astonishing is the way each new store is received. When Krispy Kreme opened its most recent outlet in Cardiff in April, its 46th in the UK, more than 1,000 people queued for two hours for [...]

I wonder if there is a 40-year mortgage available for this? An adjustable rate loan? Interest-only mortgage? Surely this is an “investment” and the value can only go up? Thanks to Skip Oliva for the tip.

Joe Queenan has written a fantastic article for the Wall Street Journal about America’s “fawning subservience to the cupcake.” Like the Macarena, Tofutti, the pedestrian scooter, the urban cowboy look of the early 1980s and America’s brief, misguided obsession with Paris Hilton, the era when the cupcake was in the ascendant deserves to be consigned [...]

One great thing about a bubble economy that promotes infantile attachments is that you never have to grow up and fully assume adult responsibility. Once again, I do not make this stuff up – I only report on the madness of crowds that is the result of people buying into the bubble-inflationary economy that feeds the masses a sense [...]