Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes

Bozo Skeleton

I work in a bar. The only people, ever, who order a Black and Tan in Ireland are Yanks. I get offended at this, because they are a god damn pain in the ass to pour. (Half Smithwicks, half Guinness.)
I wonder where they get the notion that this a traditional Irish drink?

Rosy Posy

DavyD_83 wrote: »

If this thread has proven anything it's that we need a definitive 9/11 dessert recipe.

It doesn't have to be tasteless, and involve towers and explosions, but it could be.

So where do we start? Cupcakes, biscuits, jelly, meringue.....?

Bozo Skeleton

Rosy Posy wrote: »

You'd probably need to use plain flour to make that cake.


I'm going to hell.

Maximus Alexander

Those cup cakes are good, but not as nice as my Yankee Plane Bomb pie.

wendell borton

polydactyl wrote: »

From all reviews they are yumm but just badly named. Not linking to the womans FB page but here is another bakery that got in trouble

The store finally settled on "Lucky Leprechaun" for its cupcake name, the site reported.

I find that name more offensive.

mike65

Americans are offensive.

the purple tin

'Mafia Sausages' now with even more made man goodness :pac:

ash23

If you get offended by that then you must also be offended by the following names of drinks

Brain Hemorrhage - for people who have had one or know someone who did
Jaeger Bomb - bomb. 'Nuff said
Bloody Mary - Anyone who knows someone called Mary who died a violent death
B-52 - Anyone who died in a B-52 plane crash
Snake bite - obvious enough

There's loads more but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Too much sensitivity me thinks!

I recall working in a bar and being asked by a group of Nordies for a pint of "Derry". Had no clue what it was but they explained it was a pint of Smithwicks with a Guinness head. I'd known that as a black and tan or a pint of special. They knew it as a pint of Derry because when you add the Guinness head, if you don't do it carefully it "explodes" (like when you open a bottle of soft drink that's been shaken).

It's not just the Americans who use these drink terms.

c_man

Cathal Cloch wrote: »

Ask her for recipes for:

Drone Strike Doughnuts.

Glazed with children's tears.

Gummy Panda

Where are these cake samples?

Foxhound38

Life is more enjoyable when you stop looking for things to be outraged about - it's just a cupcake, who cares?

Femme_Fatale

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Life is more enjoyable when you stop looking for things to be outraged about - it's just a cupcake, who cares?

Bit disingenuous. It's not the cupcake, it's the name. You don't have to be an outrage merchant to see how "carbomb" is in poor taste.

Lately I see far more people giving out about people being offended... than people being offended. Stephen Fry, who is part of that fashion, seems like such a knob too.
What people mean when they say "People look for offence at anything these days" is "I hate when people take offence at stuff I don't take offence at... but it's no problem for me to get offended by other stuff."

Dick Masterson

I'm not the least bit offended, I just think the name is stupid because surely the Irish weren't the first or most frequent users of carbombs, right? It's not something unique to Irish culture.

Now if they said Iraqi carbombs, then I can see how someone could be offended by that because they're very common over there nowadays after America liberated the oppressed Shiites and give them the freedom to duel with their Sunni overlords.

Foxhound38

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Bit disingenuous. It's not the cupcake, it's the name. You don't have to be an outrage merchant to see how "carbomb" is in poor taste.

Lately I see far more people giving out about people being offended... than people being offended. Stephen Fry, who is part of that fashion, seems like such a knob too.
What people mean when they say "People look for offence at anything these days" is "I hate when people take offence at stuff I don't take offence at... but it's no problem for me to get offended by other stuff."

It's not disingenuous - it's just not bending myself out of shape over what is an ill-advised name of a cupcake. Was it ill-advised? Yes. Is a word going to ruin my day? No - especially if the cupcake tastes good!

Driveby Dogboy

whats the craze with cupcakes these days anyway?

Driveby Dogboy

Driveby Dogboy wrote: »

whats the craze with cupcakes these days anyway?

Cupcakes are so last year, Cronuts are where its at right now....

pandaboy

As explosive as the "Lord MountBattenberg"?

bodice ripper

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Bit disingenuous. It's not the cupcake, it's the name. You don't have to be an outrage merchant to see how "carbomb" is in poor taste.

Lately I see far more people giving out about people being offended... than people being offended. Stephen Fry, who is part of that fashion, seems like such a knob too.
What people mean when they say "People look for offence at anything these days" is "I hate when people take offence at stuff I don't take offence at... but it's no problem for me to get offended by other stuff."

Sorry, you think Stephen Fry is a knob, therefore all your opinions are suspect.

Corvo Attano

What a terrible name.

You should be offended by her lack of naming skills.

minidazzler

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Bit disingenuous. It's not the cupcake, it's the name. You don't have to be an outrage merchant to see how "carbomb" is in poor taste.

Lately I see far more people giving out about people being offended... than people being offended. Stephen Fry, who is part of that fashion, seems like such a knob too.
What people mean when they say "People look for offence at anything these days" is "I hate when people take offence at stuff I don't take offence at... but it's no problem for me to get offended by other stuff."

Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.

Rabies

polydactyl wrote: »

Just came across this on a Facebook baking page I belong to. I commented to the poster that the name was horribly in bad taste and that while I knew it was based on a shot you can buy in American bars that I also found that horribly offensive. I told her about the Omagh bombing etc. She responded with " oh but I am married to a man called O Grady and have visited " the old sod" twice so its ok.

I politely pointed out that this fact made it worse as if she is so proud of her families Irish heritage that she should be even more aware of how offensive it is than most Americans who could rightly clam no knowledge of its links in history.

Am I just being overly offended? I did grow up " at the border" so do find it very offensive but am now even more irritated as she is using the " I'm Irish through marriage rubbish" to excuse it :mad:

Go back in time. Stop the Omagh bombing.
Bake cake

or

Switch off your computer. Cut off all contact with the outside world. Wrap yourself in cotton wool and sing Disney songs all day.

freshpopcorn

Where I come from their called buns. Not, cupcakes.

ardle1

Royalties Please.;)

Rabies

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Where are these cake samples?

You need a good training ground to prove your work before samples can be given out.

Sinfonia

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Well I'd find it hard to believe he wouldn't take offence at homophobic or anti-semitic or anti intellectual speech.

I think he'd either do something constructive about it or keep his mouth shut to be honest.
Rather than just say "I'm offended, so you can't do/say that", which is what he's railing against in that quote.

Duiske

Nothing starts a Sunday morning like a coffee and a Boston Bomb Biscuit.

Jello

Working in an Irish bar in Denver for the summer. "Irish Car Bombs" and a pint called "Black and Tan" are two of our most popular drinks!

goose2005

Jello wrote: »

Working in an Irish bar in Denver for the summer. "Irish Car Bombs" and a pint called "Black and Tan" are two of our most popular drinks!

What about a Michael Collins - it's like a Tom Collins, but you just give it a shot in the head.

Bozo Skeleton

Jello wrote: »

Working in an Irish bar in Denver for the summer. "Irish Car Bombs" and a pint called "Black and Tan" are two of our most popular drinks!

In all my years working in bars in Dublin, I have only been asked for a Black and Tan a handful of times, and every single time it was a Yank tourist asking for it. A young lad, (born in the US, but Irish, I guess) told me last night it's all the rage in Mayo. I don't believe him.
Mayo people, is this true? And if so, why? I can understand a Smithwicks with a Guinness head, but half Guinness half Smithwicks, that's just stupid. And a pain in the ass to pour.

Pug160

minidazzler wrote: »

Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.

Stephen is very intelligent and witty but he's not perfect - no one is. He made a comment a few years ago implying that women never actually enjoy sex, which was one of the dumbest comments I have ever heard. Stephen might be gay, but I thought a man with his education would have at least known more about a woman's anatomy.

nice_very

BUNS, call them by their correct name: BUNS

next you guys will be all like, mom when you go to the drugstore bring me back a gallon of soda

ardle1

Pug160 wrote: »

Stephen is very intelligent and witty but he's not perfect - no one is. He made a comment a few years ago implying that women never actually enjoy sex, which was one of the dumbest comments I have ever heard. Stephen might be gay, but I thought a man with his education would have at least known more about a woman's anatomy.

He forgot to finish his statement 'that women never actually enjoy sex' with him