Cupcake Wars: Food Porn

 Cupcake Wars is a Food Network show that is sweeping the nation, well maybe not the entire population but it is surely popular with cupcake enthusiasts everywhere. I personally watch this show for the ridiculous premise that provides me with guilty bursts of laughter at the overall stupidity and utter pointlessness that goes on throughout the "competition". Every new episode "four of the country’s top cupcake bakers face off in three elimination challenges until only one decorator remains". The show does its best to create tension, stress, and drama but lets face it, they're making cupcakes, not such serious and stressful business. I have theory that people don't watch for the the cupcake drama  but rather for the "food porn" factor. Each round the eager-to-please contestants are judged on their cupcake's presentation and taste. Between intensely heated rounds, the highly qualified and most-likely certified cupcake judges provide in depth cake feedback, which most of the time borders on erotic descriptions of aesthetics and taste.

 

In the grand finale the remaining two contestants must make a display with 1000 cupcakes on it (most of which are probably never eaten, lets hope they donate them to a cupcake needy charity!). These displays always have a ridiculous tacky theme and the cupcakes and displays from both contestants almost always end up nearly identical, because how many ways can you make a World Cup trophy with cupcakes on it? What a waste of 2000 cupcakes! This is food pornography at its finest, the audience sits at home, lusting over dirty thoughts of the  thousands of glamorized cupcakes that they will never have the chance to eat!