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Maybe Pie Won’t Eclipse Cupcakes After All

Call Me Cupcake, not Call Me Pie.
Call Me Cupcake, not Call Me Pie. Photo: Foobooz

At the beginning of this year foodie prognosticators were falling all over each other, trying to foretell what would be 2011’s biggest dining trends. Over and over again, these culinary clairvoyants told us cupcakes were dead and that pie was going to reign supreme. We had our doubts then. But as the year wears on we’re staring to think that the majority of these trendspotters are full of malarkey. Why? Well, Sweetbox Cupcakes truck, which Meal Ticket reported launched this week, bring the number of cupcake trucks on our streets to four. The number of pie trucks? Zero! You do the math. [Meal Ticket]

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Maybe Pie Won’t Eclipse Cupcakes After All