Iconoclasm

[SteveC]

Cup cakes are horrible, too. 

A couple of years ago, a team I shared an office with won some sort of company award. At the ceremony they were given a box of cupcakes to take back to the office to share with the rest of us. There had been some of these at the reception as well. Those who had tried them warned the rest of us off, so we left them on a shelf in the office.
For about six weeks.
There was no visual change at all, which was more than a tad worrying...

[hellymedic]

Surely cup-cakes vary with the quality of the original batter and any adornments?

Some will be meh, some  and some will be delish.

I don't think we should tar all with the same brush.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yeah, I think the problem here is not "cup cakes" but "commercial bakery products".

[rogerzilla]

I don't think we should tar all with the same brush.

Some I've eaten would have been improved with a good thick brushing of tar.

[ian]

It's in their nature for cupcakes to fail. First, you get hit by the sugary shock and awe of the topping. And overtopping seems a competitive cupcake sport in some quarters. Some have enough topping that they could be used to break the fall of a fat man jumping out of a cruising plane. Of course, he'd then eat your cupcake. He's fat for a reason. So you're left all sugar-crack jittery with your eyeballs desperately trying to negotiate independent routes out of your skull and your pancreas praying to whatever god is listening for it just stop, stop, stop. And what do you have left. Sponge. It's going to be disappointing. It has to be disappointing. It's like snorting a boatload of cocaine and then trying to eat a small mattress. And truly, has any metaphor better summed up a cupcake? I think not.

[hellymedic]

So cupcakes fail because they are sugar paste confectionary creations? Fair enough!
I quite like small, portion-controlled CAEKS.
Maybe these are fairy cakes...

[Efrogwr]

Last year I spent some time in Italy, in the area whence Prosecco comes. My host couldn’t fathom why we paid so much for a bottle worth 2 Euro.

I was horrified when it wentup from €1.95 to €1.99 a bottle

[T42]

The single malt craze is a load of old cobblers. Single malts are simply components used by blenders to produce a balanced whisky, and only a very few of them are worth drinking for their own sake.

[SoreTween]

Blended whisky is a pointless waste of otherwise useful grain.  What is the point of knowing exactly what you are going to get every time you ask for a shot?  The difference between different blends is little more than rounding errors.  As for American whiskey, an acceptable as fuel for a Trangia only.

The point of whisky is the never ending search for a malt that is just right for you, sufficiently <X>¹ to light up your taste buds without being too <X> for you.  Then when you find one you enjoy a bottle or two before it becomes unavailable and begin the search all over again.  The journey is the point of whisky, blends are pure destination and the destination is 1970's Coventry.

¹ Peaty, sweet, smooth, dry etc etc

[Tim Hall]

I caught reruns of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again. Utter crap.

[T42]

Blended whisky is a pointless waste of otherwise useful grain.  What is the point of knowing exactly what you are going to get every time you ask for a shot?  The difference between different blends is little more than rounding errors.  As for American whiskey, an acceptable as fuel for a Trangia only.

The point of whisky is the never ending search for a malt that is just right for you, sufficiently <X>¹ to light up your taste buds without being too <X> for you.  Then when you find one you enjoy a bottle or two before it becomes unavailable and begin the search all over again.  The journey is the point of whisky, blends are pure destination and the destination is 1970's Coventry.

¹ Peaty, sweet, smooth, dry etc etc

So you're always travelling hopefully and rarely finding satisfaction. As with a lot of things, I suppose.

All the same, it's highly suspect when distilleries which never thought of producing a single malt before 1995 suddenly start turning them out, doubtless drawing upon their most inventive copywriters to produce the appropriate tradition.  This is telling.

It's a fad.

[clarion]

All whisky is horrible.

[SoreTween]

Mostly I agree with you T42, there's a hell of a lot of fadish malt drinking goes on especially in the willy waving arena of stupidly priced stuff.  I'm very glad that I did not discover The Grill until the arse had fallen out of the oil price.  I just don't see the point of blends any more than I ask for Doom Bar when on Kelham Island, drink the house red in Reimes or seek out the infernal bloody Irish Bar when abroad anywhere¹.

¹ I will if ever I go to Ireland.

[T42]

Anywhere outside Ireland that calls itself The Irish Bar is phoney, and nowhere in Ireland would bother since they're Irish to start with. But I've drunk half-decent house plonk in quite a few towns here. Basic rule is to ask what it is, and if it's Côtes du Rhône you're usually OK, to within a Gaviscon or two.

[Torslanda]

All whisky is horrible.

Burn the heretic!

[T42]

Over a Trangia fuelled with single malt? 

[mattc]

Heretics have given up their human rights - we should burn them.

[Cudzoziemiec]

All whisky is horrible.

Clarion is right!


That's got to be iconoclastic... 

[Guy]

Olivier's film of Henry V isn't a patch on Brannagh's version.

[PeteB99]

All whisky is horrible.

Clarion is right!


That's got to be iconoclastic... 

You're both right. I can't stand the stuff.

[Deano]

I neither like nor dislike Marmite.

[Tim Hall]

Olivier's film of Henry V isn't a patch on Brannagh's version.

Context is all, I think. Olivier's was made as a morale boosting, rally the troops sort of thing in the midst of WWII.

[clarion]

I neither like nor dislike Marmite.

[arry_b]

Cricket is not a sport.

[Guy]

Football is boring