Comments on: What is Up With the Cupcake Thing? http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:39:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on What is Up With the Cupcake Thing? by: Rebecca http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/#comment-57315 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:56:07 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/#comment-57315 I seem to remember some talk during my little sister's last years at elementary school, there was talk of stopping the bringing of "treats" for birthdays. However, it was less a concern about scary sugar and more that our school was in an underprivileged neighborhood. A number of students couldn't necessarily afford to come up with 2+ dozen snacks, particularly those whose moms were working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. It actually made a lot of sense to me at the time, because I remembered the one student in my grade whose parents had something like 11 kids in a three bedroom house, and he never had anything to bring on his birthday, and I remembered how uncomfortable he always looked when the teacher would mention his birthday. So I think those kind of bans do make a good deal of sense. I seem to remember some talk during my little sister’s last years at elementary school, there was talk of stopping the bringing of “treats” for birthdays. However, it was less a concern about scary sugar and more that our school was in an underprivileged neighborhood. A number of students couldn’t necessarily afford to come up with 2+ dozen snacks, particularly those whose moms were working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. It actually made a lot of sense to me at the time, because I remembered the one student in my grade whose parents had something like 11 kids in a three bedroom house, and he never had anything to bring on his birthday, and I remembered how uncomfortable he always looked when the teacher would mention his birthday. So I think those kind of bans do make a good deal of sense.

]]> Comment on What is Up With the Cupcake Thing? by: Amanda http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/#comment-42240 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:40:38 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/#comment-42240 In my nieces' school you can't bring homemade anything to school to share with your class. It's a health code thing, or something like that. You can bring a giant box of Twinkies, but no homemade granola bars. Silly, but safe I guess. In my nieces’ school you can’t bring homemade anything to school to share with your class. It’s a health code thing, or something like that. You can bring a giant box of Twinkies, but no homemade granola bars. Silly, but safe I guess.

]]> Comment on What is Up With the Cupcake Thing? by: Cake Roundup » Pink Cake Box Wedding Cakes & more http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/#comment-42212 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:48:13 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/#comment-42212 [...] The New York Times wrote an article about the cupcake problem and the move to ban cupcakes from schools. Barbara from Tigers and Strawberries sums up the issue nicely and makes a convincing case for NOT banning cupcakes in schools. [...] […] The New York Times wrote an article about the cupcake problem and the move to ban cupcakes from schools. Barbara from Tigers and Strawberries sums up the issue nicely and makes a convincing case for NOT banning cupcakes in schools. […]

]]> Comment on What is Up With the Cupcake Thing? by: Lisa http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/#comment-42030 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:38:44 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/#comment-42030 Coincidentally, I did a small post the other day about how a so-called cupcake bar was opening in our (small) city and I didn't get it. Then others informed me via comments about the cupcake phenom. So, as one person commented here, the "trend" is just trickling down to some of us! I'm not anti-cupcake, either, but my reaction is just kind of "huh." The whole kids not being able to take homemade treats to school thing is, in my opinion, yet another example of the utter insanity that has taken hold in this country. Coincidentally, I did a small post the other day about how a so-called cupcake bar was opening in our (small) city and I didn’t get it. Then others informed me via comments about the cupcake phenom. So, as one person commented here, the “trend” is just trickling down to some of us! I’m not anti-cupcake, either, but my reaction is just kind of “huh.”

The whole kids not being able to take homemade treats to school thing is, in my opinion, yet another example of the utter insanity that has taken hold in this country.

]]> Comment on What is Up With the Cupcake Thing? by: Jennifer http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/#comment-41903 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:27:48 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/09/25/what-is-up-with-the-cupcake-thing/#comment-41903 Honestly, I think it's more than "what we make sinful kids will want more"; I find the concept of making particular foods 'sinful' problematic because it breeds exactly the kind of unhealthy attitudes about food that contribute to disordered eating, particularly in girls and women. My moral choices about food are about where it comes from and how it's produced, and shouldn't be about the body and diet police, who have a vested interest in making me hate myself. That said, as much as I hate the whole 'sinful/sinless/guilt-free' way of marketing chocolate and sweets, I was rather impressed at the supermarket the other day to see a brand of organic fair trade chocolate marketed as 'sinless'. The double-meaning made me smile. And really, linking sin to things that hurt the planet/the developing world makes much more sense to me than linking it to sugar or chocolate. Honestly, I think it’s more than “what we make sinful kids will want more”; I find the concept of making particular foods ’sinful’ problematic because it breeds exactly the kind of unhealthy attitudes about food that contribute to disordered eating, particularly in girls and women. My moral choices about food are about where it comes from and how it’s produced, and shouldn’t be about the body and diet police, who have a vested interest in making me hate myself.

That said, as much as I hate the whole ’sinful/sinless/guilt-free’ way of marketing chocolate and sweets, I was rather impressed at the supermarket the other day to see a brand of organic fair trade chocolate marketed as ’sinless’. The double-meaning made me smile. And really, linking sin to things that hurt the planet/the developing world makes much more sense to me than linking it to sugar or chocolate.

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