The Daily Clog » cupcake cars http://clog.dailycal.org A Cal blog brought to you by The Daily Californian Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:47:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Things That Reek of Berkeley From Miles Away: Cupcake Cars http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/10/08/things-that-reek-of-berkeley-from-miles-away-cupcake-cars/ http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/10/08/things-that-reek-of-berkeley-from-miles-away-cupcake-cars/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:10:34 +0000 Jill Cowan http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=14028 Oh Berkeley. You’ve birthed many a-strange thing. So many, in fact, we’re too tired at the moment to attempt even an iceberg tip-grazing list. (Look ma, no links!)

Yesterday, though, we found one that might just take the (cup)cake. Fine, giant $25,000 cupcake cars in a Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog are hardly the weirdest things to come out of Berkeley, but that pun was just too entICING to resist. Alright, alright, we’ll knock it off. We just think it’s rather telling that our first thought while reading about “Bay Area artist” Lisa Pongrace’s cupcakey creations  on a national, in no way regional blog was “Hm. Five bucks says she’s from B-Town.” And we were right:

THINGS WE NEED: A $25,000 Cupcake Car [BWE]
Cupcake Cars [YouTube]

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