Food Porn

I've written before about my food allergy (well, it's technically a disease, but it sounds more normal to call it an allergy) which doesn't allow me to eat anything with flour in it. Well today, one of our vendors brought in cupcakes from a place called Eleni's, which I know about for their famously cute (and expensive) cookies. These cupcakes were divine looking. They even rivaled the look of the notoriously terrific Crumbs bakery cupcakes, which is located down the street from our office.

These were delicious looking, tantilizing, mouth watering, glittering goodies of yum yum tastic proportions. The kind of cupcakes people could get in fist fights over. There was a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting, an oreo cupcake with crushed oreos mixed in the frosting, vanilla cake with strawberry whipped frosting and sprinkles, and a chocolate cupcake with white frosting on it that you know just rivaled birthday cake quality frosting. And there were at least 15 of them, sitting mere feet from my desk.

AND I COULDN'T EAT THEM. Not even lick the frosting (god forbid there might be flour transfer) or nibble a tiny bite (unless I want to curl up in the fetal position in pain and/or vomit). So I did the next best thing. I pimped out those cupcakes. First I delivered one to my boss. He chose the oreo one, which also appeared to have little marshmellows in it. Then I brought two to the office of sarcasm (so nicknamed by me because the two people who sit in there are hilarious and uber sarcastic) and finally I brought two upstairs to a couple of the guys in research (to thank them for their awesome job working on our office ping pong tournament).

And you know what's kind of messed up - with all five of those cupcake deliveries, I made them all eat at least a bit of the cupcake in front of me, and tell me what it tasted like. I was engaging in vicarious cupcake eating - like food porn. I don't know why cupcakes get me so bad. Like I said in my earlier post, I am pretty much accepting of my gluten free lifestyle. But cupcakes are not only delicious, but so pretty. Sooooooo pretty. And unlike cake, where frosting is a mere garnish - in cupcakes, frosting is almost in equal part to the cake.

But you want to know the funny part? When I brought the cupcakes upstairs to research, and I explained that I wanted to watch them enjoy the cupcakes, one of the guys was like "Oh yeah, I make my friends tell me all about whatever they're eating. I always want to see the inside of their sandwiches and stuff." Really? I've at least got my allergy to fall back in as an excuse for my weird actions. He, apparently, is just weird. Or loves food. Or both.