“A businessman has opened his own cake-making business called the Butch Bakery, specialising in manly cupcakes.
David Arrick, who lost his job as a Wall Street lawyer in 2008, came up with the idea after conducting some market research.
Arrick told Sky News: “That’s how Butch Bakery was born, I thought they are all very feminine and pink and a lot of them are frilly with jelly beans and sprinkles, and I thought I wanted to do something very different, and I decided to do something with a masculine bent to it and that’s how I came up with the idea.
“I think that we eat with our eyes first before our stomachs and I think that it’s got to be visually appealing, and I wanted something that was going to have an impact from the beginning, right when you see it.
“The response has been overwhelming, all around the world, media response from all around the world, I get orders from all around the world from as far away as Australia as a matter of fact.”
Flavours of cupcakes available include beer, salted caramel and whisky.
Arrick added: “We’ve got a great banana, peanut butter with crushed bacon, so if you think about it, it’s kind of like the Elvis sandwich, you know, peanut butter, bacon, and banana, we’ve got a cupcake that has that.”"
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Men apparently needed their own chocolate bar (Yorkie,) and their own crisps (McCoys…What’s girly about Walkers, I don’t know,) so it comes as no surprise that they feel they need a more masculine cupcake.
WTF? I shall eat only pink cakes from now on to reassert my masculine right to eat WTF I like.
Effing ‘manly’ cakes. What a load of rubbish.
I don’t need a cake to tell me I am a man.
I like ‘feminine’ colours anyway.
As a father of a boy and a girl it is bloody hard to avoid gender specific crap. We don’t need this.
My son looks great in pink. My daughter plays with a hand drill. I am determined to mix ‘em up good and proper.
(BTW, it is only a pretend drill.)
Bloody gender roles.
It is hard enough to be yourself without a load of stupid rules about who can eat/wear/play with what and what colour it should be.
This is why we love Phillis.
I bet s/he doesn’t care what colour his/her cakes are.
A better role model than this muppet any day.
And Jess, you are right. I found the Yorkie ads and MCoys ads quite irritating.
Almost offensive, although to quote the great Derren himself, ‘If you are that easily offended…’ or words to that effect.
As a parent it is now quite important to me.
Adverts contain so many socializing messages. We should not dis-empower anyone through these messages. Kids pick it up so quickly.
Women ARE strong. Men ARE caring. We can all dress as we please. My cake does not need to be blue to be tasty, nor does it need to have bacon in it.
It is really hard to stop my kids from picking up the gender role messages that are everywhere in society.
*deep breath*
*gets off high horse*
It is only a cake with a gimmick, though. A stupid, pointless, soul-destroying gimmick.
Bah.
Apparently all children used to be referred to as ‘girls’ (‘boy’ was a name for male servants). Male babies were dressed in pink, deemed to be more masculine than the females in blue. Just shows how times and perceptions change…
Man I hate it when I have these “Why didn’t I think of that.” moments! This guy is going to pocket it big time.
ROFLMAO! butch bakery?? sounds more lesbian to me than manly!
Oooh, tha sounds like Bliss
My previous catchpa spelled: ACNE….ftw? Guess thats what manly cupcakes will deliver too
Always with the cake…
As junior partners we now have to accept whatever our american masters say… but cupcakes, manly? – get a grip.
The manly way is to buy a great big chocolate fudge cake, then leave it in the fridge until it dries out, then stupidly realise you should have just got a cupcake of any variety/colour/gender creed….
Ah well… so long as I get my cherry…
PS – Anyone know how to refresh a stale chocolate fudge cake? (A friend needs to know)
Microwave your cake for 5-10 seconds and it will be moist and lovely. Or maybe soggy and rank.
Cut it into inch-thick slices and fry it in butter. That is actually a serious suggestion, and rather tasty too.
Obviously scrape the cream filling off and remove any icing first.
Stale means dehydrated, so I’d put it in some kind of container and cover that with a damp towel to re-introduce some moisture. That, or Rob’s solution of frying it up. Serve with ice cream… yum!
@ mike If it’s anything like the one my sister made for my dad’s birthday last year (e.g. needs a massive bread knife to cut through it, and doesn’t smash when you whack is against the kitchen side…seriously…) it’s beyond saving. R.I.P. chocolate cake.
Ehehehe … manly cupcakes … .. ehehe … Beer, whisky .. no wonder the stock market went down …
I would not want to be caught dead with a cupcake in my hand .. just hand me the whole bottle ..