to think £2 is a ridiculous price for a cupcake?

[reptile]

THe Swallow Bakery has opened in Cheltenham and I thought I'd have a cup of coffee and one of these cupcake things that everybody's been going on about (I don't get out much).

I was staggered that they cost £2 and beat a hasty retreat. Is it just me, or does anyone else think the recession can't have bitten too deeply when lots of people can/will pay this much. Also, what are they like, as I'm too mean to buy one?

please continue with your pointless argument over pointless postings and I'll just witter on to myself.

Think the High Street is a bit grim, nomdeplume, but the Promenade is lovely I think.

That building whih houses Cupcake shop is covered with scaffolding though, which ruins that end of town imo. Apparently the whole building has concrete cancer so will be there for the forseeable.

PMSL @ GetOrf - Did similar thing at the poncey food shop at Neals Yard. Equally horrified by final bill, but did I say "are you off your fucking trolly?" or even "oh gosh really? I think I might have to leave it then"? No I do not. I smiled widely, said "lovely, thanks" dipped into my purse and paid up feeling gutted and already totting up all the things I could have bought for the price of a bit of cheese, bread, hummus and olives.

i think if you're a cake person you'd pay two quid. i'd pay that for a large hot sausage roll

Ditto what SlightlyJaded said

I would rather have a Gregg's yum yum AND a sausage roll

how funny that someone who posted on a thread just to tell the op that their subject matter is "pointless" should then complain about someone else being rude!

You don't actually get much more ignorant than looking down your nose at someone's choice of chatter. No, it's not serious stuff, but nor is much of the stuff on here. It's just people chatting.

OP - YANBU . £2 is a lot to pay for a tiny little bun.

YY prom is nice (scaffolding aside).

Concrete cancer. Eeeek.

lol @ 'large hot sausage roll'

I think it is good that they cost £2 each or else I would probably eat far too many of them. In fact I'd support raising the price to £20 each just in case I have a weak-willed moment and convince myself that £2 is a good not unreasonable idea...

Hecate - lol at you calling them buns. Didn't you call them buns on the other thread and everyone said you were wrong.

I think buns should be said with a yorkishire accent, anyway, for full comic effect.

Just googled them, and the silver caravan thingy on their website was indeed parked outside that hideous scaffolding covered building last Saturday, so outside the shop - strange!
It is in a strange location really, not somewhere I would walk past often.
£2 if they are yummy is I guess not that mad (you pay almost that somewhere like Costa) but like others - I also find cupcakes disappointing and usually better to look at than eat.

save yourself the £2 - they always look nicer than they taste and it costs nowt to admire them from afar!

Heh heh heh! Just remembered I have got a Gregg's cheese and onion pastie hidden in the back of the random kitchen implements cupboard in the kitchen. Will just go and pop that in the oven to warm up and will be right back for some more pointless chatter.

haha getorf :o

Cheltenham has a prom?

It's the Promenade, coat, a great big street with loads of shops on it.

Also with a statue of a bunny rabbit with a great big willy.

best thing about Cheltenham, I find.

yes I did. yes they did.

[stubborn] They are buns. I will carry on fighting until all of mumsnet calls them buns

Yes, but do you pronouce them in a northern fashion e.g. 'boons'

I am a (north) derbyshire lass. I pronounce them b-uh-ns

the uh being the sort of sound you'd make if someone punched you in the stomach and winded you.

A noise that people who continue to call them 'cupcakes' may start to make...

I went to the this cafe at the weekend and have to say that I thought the cupcakes were delish!! Particularly the strawberries and cream one!! I would definitely pay £2.20 for one, how much would you expect to pay??

I'm from Yorkshire - I say b-u-n-s, no oo sound.

I do quite like the posh copcakes with all that icing. On diet at the moment and reading about the icing is making me very hungry. DH and DD don't like the icig on them,

I like the way Helen Mirren pronounces buns in calendar girls, when Celia Imrie is topless in front of two cherry cupcakes and she says 'we are going to need considerably bigger buns'

you're just up the road from me, aren't you, Hula? Well, just over the tops anyway

the best cupcakes i have ever tasted come in a pack of four from lidl. don't know how much they cost but they are worth it. i was at a car boot sale recently and a girl set up a stall, well she had a table with about 40 cupcakes on it, all homemade and they were £1.50 each!!! at a car boot sale.