DC Cupcakes (Georgetown CC) TLC reality show last night..

[Anonymous]

Did anyone find it as boring as I did? My DH could not stand a minute of it. I made him keep watching because we used to live over there and i walked by it every day on the way to the gym.

The sisters and staff just really weren't very interesting or exciting.

They make good cupcakes, but not good TV!

[Anonymous]

Agreed completely. And I find the sisters a little annoying. And everytime they call their Mom "Mommy" it made my stomach turn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agreed completely. And I find the sisters a little annoying. And everytime they call their Mom "Mommy" it made my stomach turn

Any idea how old they are? Are they single? They said the both don't have kids yet so that is why 'mommy' got a dog. I thought they both looked late 30s. Just curious.

[Anonymous]

I kept hearing them say "aboot" instead of 'about'...now it makes sense:

Washington Gets Cupcaked
By Carol Joynt

What’s new in Washington? Well, the DC primary confirmed the citizens are besotted with Barack Obama, and now it seems they also have a thing for cupcakes. Yes, cupcakes. In fact, they are mad for a new store, Georgetown Cupcake, where, according to the owners, they’ve been buying fresh baked and buttercream adorned cupcakes at a rate of 1,000 a day since it opened only last week. They line up early and wait patiently for the chance to indulge.


After Barack Obama, Washington's newest addiction: Georgetown Cupcake on Potomac Street.
Georgetown Cupcake co-owners, and sisters, Sophie Lamontagne and Katherine Kallinis.
New Yorkers, who have Magnolia in the Village, take this sort of thing for granted, but Washington has been cupcake-challenged for decades. The location of our new addiction is a charming antique white frame house on Potomac Street in, as every shop owner within a mile declares, “the heart of Georgetown.”

For me, who has a weakness for cupcakes (both the male and bakery variety) this is dangerous. A recent visit began with the scent of vanilla and chocolate filling the air at the door. The main event is a tempting display of picture perfect cupcakes, plus a menu of hot chocolate, coffee and tea. Some customers can’t wait to get out the door before devouring their purchase. Note: They are delicious.

The owners are sisters, Katherine Kallinis and Sophie Lamontagne, natives of Toronto, who have been “baking all our lives,” and who learned their recipes from their grandmother. This is the first time they’ve gone public with their passion, however.

Sophie, a Princeton grad, was working in venture capital in Boston, while Katherine was at Gucci in Toronto. Katherine went to school here at Marymount College, knew the area and, as she said, “we both love Washington,” and Sophie and her husband had moved here and Georgetown seemed like a natural fit.

[Anonymous]

It was really bad...it made them look dumb and incompetent. It was also obvious that everyone was reading off of a script. The mommy thing made my skin crawl.

[Anonymous]

I think I read that the owners are 31 and 33. I'm older and still call my mom "mommy" sometimes, although I don't go doing it on national tv.

Obviously anyone who ever watches any reality tv knows it's not real, but I do know of someone who works there (who is not on the show) and this person was appalled at how much the producers tried to script people.

[Anonymous]

Terrible! It actually makes me NOT want to eat their food. Made them look really unprofessional and clueless. And did St. Jude's Hospital REALLY just randomly call them up and expect 1000 cupcakes the next day? That seems weird.

[Anonymous]

What has television come to these days...it is all BAD! This included!!! The 2 cupcake shop owners, and their mother seemed fake, not sure if that is how they are in real life...but it was a turnoff!

[Anonymous]

$2.75 for one cupcake?! I can buy a box for about that much and make a great batch with fabulous frosting.
I bought a cupcake in there once, and I personally thought the sisters were snobs.
Never again.

[Anonymous]

As others have said, I do realize that reality is somewhat staged,but the blonde sister sounded like she was directly reading off of a script and couldn't remember her lines half of the time. I was disappointed and I don't have very high standards for what I watch

[Anonymous]

SO, are cupcakes the new "in" thing?

[Anonymous]

DH just started watching the show and said "those are the owners? They were the ones who delivered when I ordered cupcakes last year." He said they were very nice, pleasant, exactly as they come across on tv, and not at all pissed that he gave them terrible directions to where he was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think I read that the owners are 31 and 33. I'm older and still call my mom "mommy" sometimes, although I don't go doing it on national tv.

Obviously anyone who ever watches any reality tv knows it's not real, but I do know of someone who works there (who is not on the show) and this person was appalled at how much the producers tried to script people.

Seriously? I pegged them at late 30s/early 40s, especially the brunette.

Also, show was dull, overscripted, stiff, and pretentious. Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SO, are cupcakes the new "in" thing?

I thought donuts were "in" now. There was a joke about this on 30 Rock, delivered by Alec Baldwin, and this was over a year ago. He was filling in somebody who had returned to NYC on how "cupcakes are out, we're back to donuts," or something like that.

There's a great donut place in Silver Spring.

But then I'm always a little behind, so maybe cupcakes are back.

[Anonymous]

I just watched the show. I deleted it half way through. It is SO bad!