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"KickAss Cupcakes" - should have a new name!!!
By me99 on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 9:09am
Now if you have the cojones to call your cupcakes "KickAss" don't you think there should be a shred of that bravado in the product?
I heard about KickAss Cupcakes from a friend and the name was so enticing, that I couldn't wait to check it out. I've had delicious cupcakes from the hot spots in NYC and had hoped that this was a local-neighborhood spot that could rival those cupcake Meccas.
Shortly before heading to KickAss, I heard from someone who had actually been there, and her experience on their opening day was that of a dry, small, not very tasty cupcake - so not worth the $2.75 expense. But we thought well, maybe it was just the volume of opening day and that by now - some months later - things would be better.
I visited today and I decided to buy a simple vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting (how could you mess that up) and a catnip cupcake for my cat (whose birthday is today, and that was the real impetus for getting there today - I hoped to get him a special treat).
I got there and I have to say that the cupcakes are smaller than average, yet I still held out hope for the taste. I took it home gave the catnip cupcake to my cat and he managed to eat some of the goldfish off the top (something they didn't make) and batted it around a bit, but basically left it alone. He didn't like it! I picked it up and broke it open, and it was so totally stale and it only had a few sprinkles of catnip on top and none of it baked inside the cupcake/BRICK - I was so sorry that I subjected him to it - $1.75 wasted.
I decided to try the human cupcake and unfortunately it lived up not to their name but to the review - Dry and not very tasty. The icing was decent but stingy in application and - simply NOT as advertised - $2.75 wasted. Definitely NOT KICKASS!!! They should be ashamed!!!
All that being said,I think they need a new name!!!
Any suggestions?
I liked one that I saw in another review SUCK*SS CUPCAKES
or how about:
KILN CAKES
or CRAPPY CUPCAKES or better yet JACKED UP CUPCAKES - reflecting both the disappointing product and price!!!
please share!
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Why not just remove the
Why not just remove the Kick, and leave it as Ass Cupcakes? Seems to get the point across quite well.
Rearrange
Cup Kick Asscakes?
see: yelp.com -- it's a
see: yelp.com -- it's a perfect site for venting your frustrations like this.
That said I will never understand why there's a cadre of folks with an inexplicably VEHEMENT hate for Kickass cupcakes. I can understand just not liking them, but this level of anger towards... a cupcake store... just baffles.
My friends and I really like their wares, especially the chocolate ones. I know we're not the only ones, and certainly people can dislike them as much as they like... but I just don't get why people get so heated over this. They're just cupcakes!
Because it's blatantly false
Because it's blatantly false advertising. Their cupcakes most assuredly do NOT kick ass, and by claiming otherwise, they're setting themselves up for this level of scorn.
Matter of opinion
For gosh sakes, its a matter of opinion. Not even an unusual one according to Yelp. I encourage you to have it, but cut down on the persecution complex. Their confidence in their product was not some elaborate ruse to deceive you. They are supposed to think their product is good. You don't have to, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't.
so bizarre
People are so odd. I wonder if Kickass cupcakes would have invited so much scorn if they were called "moderately good cupcakes"? I can't believe people get so worked up over... cupcakes.
Really
All this fuss about cupcakes.
Hell, I mean, sure, I like to down a three-pack of Yankee Doodles as much as the next guy. They have that wonderful dry-as-a-bone industrial-waste-filled flavor. Goes very well with milk that's been sitting on the kitchen counter since Tuesday.
I used to prefer Hostess, with their lovely "Oh My God, I can actually SEE the fat globules" texture, but the fingers on my right hand grew 20% larger than those on my left just from picking them up to pop in my mouth.
Little Debbie is good because they're the cheapest ones available, but folks give you strange looks when you're a 51-year-old and you say, "Mmmmmmmmm, Little Debbie is delicious!"
Now, what store do you find these "Kick Ass Cupcakes" in? I haven't seen them at the Store 24.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
not sure if this is snark or what
...?
You can find them at the Kickass Cupcakes store in Davis Square.
Just Joking Around
I believe I've actually had Kick Ass Cupcakes, but not at the store. I was attending a fundraising dinner for The Women's Lunch Place, and (if I'm not mistaken) they supplied the desserts. I thought they were decent enough.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Call the MBTA Police!
Suldog is snack hungry ... and whenever you get snack hungry, Little Debbie has a snack for you!
Perv. ;-)
It's to make up for all the outrage over ...
Johnny Cupcakes, which doesn't even sell cupcakes.
Lost all credibility with me...
once the author mentioned celebrating a cat's birthday.
Cat's Birthday
1) a good way to meter out special treats without making your cat spherical over time
2) all about kids, who insist on knowing when the beloved cat or dog's birthday is so that a proper birthday situation can be created. (Even though the beloved pet could care less what day it is, they usually enjoy the extra attention).
Oh Thank God
I thought is was me! I was recently at an event where Kickass Cupcakes were being served with beer and really did. not. like. the cupcake, but I thought maybe it was because of the odd beverage combination. Nope, it was because the cupcakes were dry and flavorless.
Me too
I wasn't impressed with a Kickass cake either. If I have a hankerin' for a baked treat (and I'm not near Petsi's), I'd try Starbucks first.
I was similarly unimpressed with Upper Crust pizza. it was OK, but not "Best of Boston" worthy. But, I'll give them another chance since there is (soon to be?) one in Harvard Square. The Pini's near me is just as good.
What about Lyndells?
Not only do they have a wide variety of tooth-decaying, artery-clogging fare, they have decent breads and very reasonable prices.
Corner of Willow and Broadway, Ball Square Breakfast District, Somerville.
And for those of us in the boonies
There's always Sugar on Centre Street in West Roxbury.
cupcakes
As far as cupcakes go the best I have had are at Sugar in West Roxbury, Always new flavors I went in this weekend and had a mallomar cupcake moist cake and they have so many diffent kinds Gotta say its the best i have had!
Upper Crust is very good
Not sure I'd call them THE best of Boston, but they are clearly up there. Their problem is that they don't make a "Boston" pizza so folks reared on such offerings aren't likely to enjoy. Growing up right by New Haven, I can tell you that Upper Crust is a servicable impersonation of the great NH pizza joints. Too heavy on the char and much more expensive than it needs to be, so its not a good enough impersonation to challenge the better Boston pizza places, but it still eclipses the massively overrated Pizzaria Regina (yes, the one in the North End) and Santarpio's. Both are so doughy and undercooked that I can't imagine what people see in them. But the folks who like them would doubtlessly turn their nose at a good New Haven pizza, so to each their own, I guess.
Di Mio thin crust
DiMio Pizza on Mass Ave near Porter claims that they intend to serve the best thin crust in the Boston Area.
My impression of my birthday dinner: they're getting pretty darn close.
Amen to thin crust
Yeah DiMio is good. So is Stone Hearth. I like thin crust more than I like "regular" and deep dish. I LOVED it at Pizza Hut. I was so happy when one opened up in Arlington Center when I lived there a decade ago. I was royally pissed when they stopped making the thin crust so they could be all deep dish all the time. And I miss the pizza at Urban Gourmet in Ball Square. I can't tell if they are coming back or not.
My preference is still for the local place near where I grew up in Maryland (Il Sole d'Italia, anyone? Anyone? Tuesdays are still half-price nights). Our family ate there once a week for 20 years. I still get some pizza from there whenever I'm back that way. Dad insists on using his senior discount.