Okay, so since my current work doesn't want any cupcakes, let's try this. Many other people expressed desire for the cupcakes, so they might as well go to someone who will enjoy them. Vanilla Garlic will have it's first contest; first person to get all these questions right first will get a mini-batch of original cupcakes. You can share them with friends and family or devour them all yourself. Sound good?It does, doesn't it?
This is open to anyone in the Sacramento, Yolo, and Placer county areas and maybe further (if someone from the Bay Area wins, we'll figure something out). Sorry to everyone else, but I've never had luck when it comes to mailing food, and you receiving a box of crumbs and mashed frosting doesn't do anyone any good.
All the answers can be found right here in this blog or online. If the questions seem self indulgent, it's not supposed to be, I just didn't want to think a lot. Post your replies in the comments section. Make sure you leave put an e-mail addy in the prompt when you leave a comment so I can contact you if you win. Ready...
Go!
1) What was the first cupcake featured on this blog?
2) What are both my cats' actual names names?
3) Which cupcake was a popular cake back in the 40's and 50's?
4) What is the name of the first food writer to win a Pulitzer? What category did he win in?
5) Where did the word "shibby" come from?
6) Passing your food from your chopsticks to another person's chopsticks is bad manners because it resembles what?
My hunger for your tasty looking cupcakes fueled my searches:
ReplyDelete1) What was the first cupcake featured on this blog?
Late Summer Peach, Blueberry and Thyme Cupcake with Cream Cheese Frosting by Chockylit over at the Cupcake Bakeshop.
2) What are both my cats' actual names names?
Cat 1: Mace the "Eat Beast" (A cutie!)
Cat 2: Cid (where are the pictures of HIM??)
3) Which cupcake was a popular cake back in the 40's and 50's?
Tomato Soup Cupcakes (I MUST try this recipe - looks yum!)
4) What is the name of the first food writer to win a Pulitzer? What category did he win in?
Jonathan Gold, the L.A. Weekly’s restaurant critic, won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
5) Where did the word "shibby" come from?
You and your friends "from way back adopted the word shibby from an on-line comic called Boy Meets Boy."
Reference: http://boymeetsboy.keenspot.com/
6) Passing your food from your chopsticks to another person's chopsticks is bad manners because it resembles what?
"This resembles the passing of bones into an urn after one's death. It's bad juju."
1. CB's late summer peach and blueberry thyme. Your first was the butternut squash w sage.
ReplyDelete2. Mace and Cid
3. Tomato Soup cupcakes
4. Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly..for food critique.
5. Actually, it used to mean pot or weed. Now it means cool or awesome. It might have come from Phil Stark. Sounds British or Austrailian to me!
6. It's like the passing of bones into an urn..bad juju.
For whatever I don't know I'll try to come up with an entertaining answer:-) Here I go...
ReplyDelete1) "Carrot Orange Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting and Candied Orange Peel"
2) Mace (aka eatbeast) and Cid
3) Chocolate Blackout Cake, possibly also Devil's Food Cake
4) Jonathan Gold
5) "Shibby" was first used in the horrible film "Dude, Where's My Car?" Can mean almost anything you want...cool!
6) passing food on chopsticks "resembles the passing of bones into an urn after one's death. It's bad juju."
Cool idea, Garrett! My mouth is watering for those cupcakes;-)
1. Late Summer Cupcakes from Cupcake Bakeshop
ReplyDelete2. Mace and Cid (that was a hard one for Cid!)
3. Tomato Soup?
4. Jonathan Gold for Criticism in LA Weekly
5. Your appreciation for the Japanese Shiba Inu dog?? (see Webster's)
6. Resembles passing bones as part of a Japanese funeral (see http://www.wikihow.com/Eat-With-Chopsticks)
7. Yes, I do have other things to do, but I'm working on a master's in procrastination.
xoa.
I am relatively new to your blog, but I will take a stab at the questions. I will totally admit that I had to look everything up. I'm sure my co-workers would love your cupcakes. =)
ReplyDelete1. First cupcake - Late Summer Peach, Blueberry and Thyme Cupcake with Cream Cheese Frosting
2. Cats' names - Cid & Mace
3. Cupcake popular as a cake in 40s and 50s - Red Velvet cupcakes
4. First food writter to win Pulitzer - Jonathan Gold for Distinguised Criticism
5. Shibby - "cool or awesome, or can be used as a term of consent or approval"
6. Passing food from your chopsticks to another person's chopsticks is bad manners because it resembles "the passing of bones into an urn after one's death"
Sorry for the late call back, it's crunch time at work.
ReplyDeleteKate, you totally nailed all of them. I can't seem to contact you cause blogger seems to have lost your e-mail (the hell?) so drop me a line.
:)
Darn. I didn't check my email account until just now. Congrats Kate. Let us live vicariously by telling us how delicious the cupcakes were to eat!
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