Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department- Page 2
Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#25re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 4:18pm
"Does it have 'nilla wafers in it?"
No, they go to the playground across the street and dip up the sand to mix in.
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#26re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 4:19pmI like bananas but not banana flavored treats (bread, muffins, etc.) I have been DYING to try that rice puddng place downtown, though! The coconut coma rice pudding sounds like my dream dessert.
#27re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 4:19pm
Jaily and Calvin...have you two been "baking" together?
"The coconut coma rice pudding sounds like my dream dessert."
roses, I didnt think a girl could make me gag.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#29re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 4:23pmJust how hard DO you have to hit a coconut to put it in a coma?
#30re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 4:24pm
Jaily-wafers galore! you'll love it! 
#31re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 4:25pmAfter searching the NY Times website, I came across another article about Billy and how he is now a she.
#32re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 4:29pmHrm...I guess his cupcakes really *are* moist and delicious now!
#33re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 4:32pm
Dottie, seriously?
This thread is funny.
#34re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 4:49pm
Yes, it's true!! I'll find it and post it.
Ms. Reece, an owner of Billy’s Bakery, a 1950’s-style Chelsea institution, had also been on “Queer Eye,” not as a contestant, but as a dessert maven. At the time, she was Billy Reece and had not yet begun the transition from man to woman.
For Mr. Berman, a young lawyer who had met Ms. Reece — then Billy — at a bar in Chelsea two years before, moving in with a transsexual required a leap of faith.....
Here's the link, Jane2:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/realestate/28habi.html?ex=1184385600&en=73a255cf9324b5de&ei=5070
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#35re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 5:08pmDoes anyone actually like this place? Every time I've read about it, people seem to be calling it overrated and gross.
#36re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/12/07 at 6:38pm
thanks, Dottie, very interesting article, and good for her!
Siamese-obvioiusly tons of folks like the place. You can't even get in there! I have nothing against it-each to his own!
#37re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 3:07am
Dottie I was about to say that Buttercup is owned by one of the former co-owners of Magnolia, but I thought it was really funny that people were saying how much better Buttercup was, so I decided to hold my tongue. I thought it was either Alyssa or Jennifer that owns Buttercup though, I remember reading it on the back of one of their stupid cookbooks once.
Anyway, I think at first the idea of Magnolia was really interesting... I mean with all the haute bakeries and patisseries every which way in New York, it was probaby really refreshing and nostalgic to be able to go to a place that had frilly curtains and sold misshapen red velvet, carrot, and devils food cake that looked like they were made by your 98 year old grandma, and pink cupcakes with yellow sprinkles are cute and all that...but 10 years or however long it's been later, I think they've outgrown the novelty and the cutesiness. When I see tourists lined up around the sidewalk and then they come out holding boxes upon boxes of cupcakes it makes me upset, I'm like, 'gosh, you're going to be soooo dissappointed when you actually taste those!'. And yeah, the chicks that work there are soooo mean. You would think that the shame of ringing up a customer's $40 order of cupcakes every 20 seconds would make them a little more sympathetic and friendly, but no, they're all bitches.
On another note, I do LOVE Rice to Riches downtown. That is it's name, right? Such a cheezy name, but damn, their rice puddings are really good and they have the most interesting toppings like candied pecans and blueberry pancake croutons...
Updated On: 7/13/07 at 03:07 AM
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#38re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 4:08am
Siamese-obvioiusly tons of folks like the place. You can't even get in there! I have nothing against it-each to his own!
Well, right. I'm sure there are people out there who enjoy the food, yes. I suppose what I was trying to ask is if the amount of New Yorkers who actually eat Magnolia Bakery's food on a regular basis is even somewhat in line with the amount of hype they receive. I was under the impression that a considerable amount of their business comes from tourists and most locals aren't really fans.
On another note, I've tried Crumbs, which I found a complete disappointment on all three times I gave it a try. The cupcakes tasted bland and dry. Dean and Deluca makes decent chocolate cupcakes.
Updated On: 7/13/07 at 04:08 AM
#39re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 9:15am
I like Crumbs. There are a couple of locations here in the sity. They have some very fun and unique flavors/varieties too..
#40re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 9:22am
Siamese-well, it's hard to say if native NYers are also on that line, I guess it's like shows-if you appeal to tourists, you've got it made! 
I'll still go there for the cupcakes and banana pudding.
#41re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 9:35am
I miss Fluff 
#42re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 9:37amYou ARE fluff.
#43re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 9:43am
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#44re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:50amHetero males who DON'T watch Sex and the City know about Magnolia Bakery from the "Lazy Sunday" rap video done by Andy Samberg on SNL.
#45re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:08pm
You haven't had cupcakes until you've tried mine. Here's some from my NFL collection last fall.
#46re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:00pmIs Fluff gone? I saw it on The Food Network and was planning on visiting my next trip to the city...oh, poop (how appropriate for this thread).
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#47re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:25pmWhat is the " men love my cupcakes, yours are dry" etc taken from? I have heard that before but I can not for the life of me fiqure out where I heard it.
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
#48re: Magnolia Bakery Temporarily Closed By Health Department
Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:48pm
RockabyeHamlet, it's from an episode of the Golden Girls. Rose was using "cupcakes" as a metaphor (for kisses, I think) to Dorothy.
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