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[-] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 92 points 1 week ago
[-] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 week ago

This is a "at what point does a knife become a sword" type of thing isn't it?

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

It's already a modification to the word to describe something smaller (a cake baked in a cup), so going back the other way seems like a redundancy.

Like a giant pygmy hippo.

With your knife/sword example, maybe the best analogy is describing the shortest longsword.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I have a 14" carving knife which is considered a sword in some parts of Europe.

[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

The smallest messer before it becomes a regular knife

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[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

IPad mini all over again.

[-] Fermion@feddit.nl 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now I want more examples of a group sized thing adapted to be personal sized then reinterpreted to be group sized again.

I'm coming up blank, but I guess a similar concept would be post-it note easel pads.

[-] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

What? You don’t want to finish your party sized pizza bites?

[-] Beacon@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

I think OP meant actual existing examples, not hypotheticals

[-] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

How rude! Now I’m not going to let you have a dip in my family sized kiddy pool.

[-] Beacon@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago
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[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Any pizza can be a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.

[-] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

I got one! Party bicycles!

wagon (multi person) --> bicycle (single person) --> party bike (multi person)

https://www.scottsdalepinkpedaltours.com/

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

At what point is a van so big that it's a bus?

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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah something like a Panettone Abomination.

(I love real Panettone though)

[-] Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

An unfrosted Double Dutch, at that.

That is an offense in itself. You're making it that large, toss on the fudge or Dutch chocolate icing with it.

[-] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I mean, if it was cooked in a cup mold then it is a cup cake no matter the size

[-] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

got it, cake with paper on it

[-] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

basically, yeah

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Enjoyed with a double demitasse coffee with 2 half teaspoons of sugar and chilled steamed beef milk.

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

You can't have coffee AND Bovril.

[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago
[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago

At that point, isn’t it just a cake wrapped in paper? I don’t think anyone would look at a salad bowl and think, “that is a cup.”

[-] Trex202@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

No, they'd say "that's a colossal cup."

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Thats past the cup size. It's just a cake

[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 2 points 1 week ago

It in a cup tho

[-] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At this point thats just a cake. But, if you call it a colossal cupcake you can then charge 10 times the amount.

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Ahhh, and here I thought the dumb name was just to make people feel better about eating an entire cake in one sitting. But you have an even better point

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago
[-] TehBamski@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

You looking to pump those numbers up to levels?

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Capitalists now: "Here is your 26 megajoule cupcake!"

Capitalists a year later: "Here is your insulin subscription, only $299/month!"

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

100% that kid won't even finish the layer of oreos (?) on the top. What a fucking disgusting use of what I'm going to apprehensively title 'food'.

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[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

A second cupcake has hit the supermarkets

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Why did they choose the dried bird poop topping tho?

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago
[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, that's the commercial name.

[-] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 week ago

Three days' calories for the price of one cupcake?!

[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Servings per container: 1

[-] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Looks like a hard duke rolled in sand.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Zomg, someone cupped the (normal) cake!

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Give it 5 years. Becomes American "child size" cupcake.

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

but, cake is meant to be shared,

who cares if a cake has 10000 calories.

that's like saying supermarket has millions of calories in their shelves so they are unhealthy

[-] Zenith@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Finally a panettone replacement

[-] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Was there any damage to the supermarkets? It's a pretty big cupcake, i guess, just doesn't seem like that bag a deal?

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