You all know how I feel about cupcakes. If you’re new to the site click here and you can read all about it. It brings me to a few other things that I just can’t wrap my logical, culinary brain around. Let’s see if you agree:

1) Shoestring ANYTHING: fries, onion rings, carrots. I mean you practically have to shove handfuls in your mouth in order to eat them, which is not lady like. And if you even try to dip them in any sort of sauce-ketchup, mayo/aioli, etc they just fall apart and you end up coating your fingers in stead. The fry is the vessel people, not the sauce. Learn it. use it.

2) Deep dish or Chicago Style pizza: Call me a traditionalist but I think finger foods should be eaten, oh, I don’t know with your fingers? So eating pizza with a knife and fork just don’t cut it for me. Pun unintended.

3) Nuts in brownies: I mean, why? For crunch? It’s a brownie, it’s not supposed to have crunch. It’s supposed to be gooey and cakey and chocolatey. If you want crunch add a chocolate chip. Besides, I’m allergic to the two kinds most people put in them; walnuts and pecans. So a stupid, hidden nut in a brownie ruins my dessert when I find them and then can’t eat it. Stop ruining my dessert.

4) Hot for hot’s sake: Ok, I get the whole “food preservation before refrigeration” thing, but you know what? Most of us have had a fridge for the last 100yrs and just putting “hotness” in or on a food doesn’t make it good. It makes it hot. Too hot to taste flavor in the current thing you’re eating, and often times, in subsequent dishes until the burnt taste buds on your tongue grow back.

5)……..ok, you guys comment. Who’s got #5?