A Rich Lesson In Cupcakes
I have again begun to appreciate the complexity that it is to eat a cupcake. It started, innocently enough, with a question. "How," asked Brian, a friend at work, " do you eat a cupcake?" (I am wary of these "questions" at work from "friends" ever since being stung by this one: "Glenn, as an outsider, what is your opinion of the human race?!" Yikes. :) The very fact of the cupcake question suggested that the three obvious answers -- remove crown from stem and eat them individually; tip cupcake sideways and have at 'er; and, dive into icing head on-- were not the right answers, so, it was learn-to-do-by-doing time. The crumbless floor was Brian's: Step 1: Detach crown from stem Step 2: Invert crown and reassemble by gently squishing upside-down crown and stem into shape of sandwich Step 3: Eat, enjoy Step 4: Tell someone else Cookie sandwich discovery moment! Once the laughter lessened, a rich lesson was lef...