On Friday, one of my employees (and my brother’s girlfriend!), Elizabeth S, called me at the bakery. I was busy making sandwiches, so Paula took a message. “Tell Kat there’s someone in Oxford selling her cupcakes.”
As Scooby Doo would say… “ouurghh??”
Elizabeth was in Oxford visiting my brother for his graduation (the reason you didn’t see me in the shop Saturday!) and stopped in a food shop (business will remain un-named) to pick up something for a friend. On the counter was a cluster of cupcakes, some chocolate with white chocolate icing and some chocolate with chocolate icing. Elizabeth was struck with how familiar they looked and politely asked the lady behind the counter, “I didn’t realize y’all baked here… do you make your own cupcakes?”
The lady responded: “they’re actually from a bakery in Memphis… I don’t remember which.”
Elizabeth: “Muddy’s Bake Shop?”
Lady: “Yeah, that’s it!”
Elizabeth: “I work there.” –instant awkwardness–
The lady then told Elizabeth that they were leftover from a birthday party, so they were selling them. Yes. Selling cupcakes, from another bakery, that were leftover from a party. Yikes.
Better than those knockoff Muddy’s cupcakes made from dollar-store cake mix the shifty dude was selling out of the back of his van last week.
dude, seriously???
how strange? i am racking my brain thinking of places it could be!
I’m clearly going to have to think of something MORE bizarre and outrageous, or at least work on my joke delivery.
Hahahaha… sorry, not your delivery. I’m just sleep-deprived!
ok that is just WRONG. I am dying to know where it is!! I’m in Oxford right now doing the Oxford Shakes Festival. I mean, I love Muddy’s as much as the next sane person, but that is RIDICULOUS. I just……there are no words.
Holli’s Sweet Tooth maybe? It’s the only “sweets” place I can think of there.