Just today, it came up with
, a story about famous Beverly Hills cupcake bar Sprinkles (who one hadn't heard of till that point) suing another cupcake bar (they're apparently all the rage in the U.S. now) for copying something in the icing design.Intrigued by the existance of multiple cupcakes-only places (and famous ones at that), one looked up Sprinkles' website, and found a load of TV interviews where the owner justifies charging US$3.25 for a cupcake. (The cupcakes have even been on Oprah - that's how famous they are).
Phew!
As if stories about $3.25-cupcake-wallahs weren't enough though, Webclips followed-up with this gem an hour later
'Ah!', one thought. 'There go the Chinese again, eating something one wouldn't classify as edible'. Another surprise this time round. It was actually a story about how Indians (Biharis, if you want to get specific) may be eating rats soon, because food is getting costlier.The perspective-shift one had to between reading the two stories was seriously scary.
One part of the world queueing up for cupcakes that expensive, and the other part unable to afford basic rations.
Can these two events be happening in the same world? The mind boggles!
1 comment:
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Same world. Same world. What can you do? We live in our own bubbles. Anyway I never end up reading the webclips (didn't even know they were called that). Though once in a while I have found a funny ad or 2 up there.
Glad to see you are blogging more often :D Will follow your space.
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