[Allegra]

Blow cigarette smoke while eating a cupcake made with transfats would cause Mayor Mikey to have a coronary. Very much worth it.

What's up with all those cupcake shops in midtown Manhattan anyway? Is that some trendy thing?

[txhurl]

We have cupcake shops - actually airstream trailers named ‘Hey, Cupcake!’ here in Austin, too. Cute as a bug.

I don’t do cupcakes but I think they’re pretty.

[Clemenza]

Was very trendy about 7 years ago, when a place called "Crumbs" opened in the West Village and had lines of cakeboys and fag hags lining up around the block for something that was essentially a half-step up from Hostess.

The trend has petered out (the big thing now is gourmet hamburgers and shakes, I kid you not), but there a a few Crumbs franchisees and imitators still around.