Not really the same as a Tootsie Pop.

[mrissa]

Satisfy my curiosity, o livejournal! Please answer this poll as though the mini-cupcakes in question have been made with your dietary needs in mind (kosher, vegan, gluten-free, no frosting, whatever), and please answer how many you think you would generally eat in the course of a party that had other foods, not how many you think you could cram down in an eating contest. In case it matters, there would be five different flavors to choose from in this hypothetical.

If you'd eat more than twelve, just answer twelve and add a comment.

[Poll #1717034]

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Depends on the exact size of a "mini-cupcake" in this iteration. So my "4" is kinda arbitrary . . .

I should read the whole thing.

[freelikebeer.livejournal.com]

My sister-in-law made a dozen red-velvet minis last week for five adults and two kids, plus as many mini-eclairs. I scaled my eats based on what everybody else ate. Three was plenty satisfying.

Five different, and compelling [ginger? mango? lime?], flavors would invite sampling one of each. I'm confident thought that if you had five stock flavors, they would be uniformly good so I wouldn't feel like I was losing an opportunity by only noshing three.

Re: I should read the whole thing.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a good point. More flavours means more opportunities to taste.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Is it scary that I have a lot of experience with this? I know that if there aren't an unlimited supply, but there are other nibblies, I've wished for a third when I've eaten two. And if I buy a box of six assorted ones on the way home from work, I don't eat all six but I make pretty good inroads unless dinner is already sitting there in the crockpot.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

I would WANT three, but I would do better with two. Would have to pick the flavors carefully. Would probably wind up splitting with other people. YUM.

What flavors in this hypothetical situation?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Chocolate, lemon, mango, apple-raisin, and white cake with either strawberry or raspberry (the person who is making that one has not decided yet).

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, in that case, change my answer from "five" to "three." The answer is always "one of each flavor that appeals to me," and, if that number is less than three, I might have a third anyway!

I am a flavor-sampling creature.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

I would probably split flavors with someone to see what I liked best without stuffing myself on cupcakes. But 5 flavors = 2.5, which is close enough to 3. Of course it depends on how "mini" they are; if they're so small that splitting them would be silly and each one is like half a cupcake, then I might take the 3 most interesting-looking flavors. I can't justify eating five cupcakes--certainly not if anybody's looking...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Each one is less than half a cupcake.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

this is what my answer was based on. well, that and the flavors. One of each, and assuming there was one my mouth demanded another go around with. >_>

I have a super high tolerance for sweets, tho.

[moiread]

Now I want to make cupcakes and inject them with strawberry filling. Dangit.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am about as repentant as you would expect.

[moiread]

Same!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

But that would be three of the incredible ones no longer made by Whiskey Bits: Chipotle with Mole Icing, something amazing with Vietnamese Tea Icing, Injected with Rum, etc., etc. Just a smaller version of a twinkie would not tempt me to eat three.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

I would eat how many I could get away with because I really like cupcakes. But if you had five flavors I would confine myself to one of each flavor, unless eating that many made it seem like someone else at the party was going to miss out.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heh. If I am hosting a party, odds are very low that anyone is going to miss out on anything. Except possibly fridge/freezer/cooler space.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. But I put six, assuming there would be one I just had to taste again. >_>

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I would sit next to you and nom all the lemon cupcakes so neither of us looked like a glutton. This is assuming common knowledge of Infinite Cupcakes so I know no one will be heartbroken when they see my full plate.

At an actual party, though, four's probably the point where I feel guilty for eating everything, especially since I'm likely to stick to one flavor.

[pameladean]

I never get cupcakes, so I might go somewhat more nuts than my answer indicates, but I hope not.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We'll see!

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

One of each!

[cpolk.livejournal.com]

I freaking LOVE cupcakes, yo. I would definitely want to try one of each. and then I'd hover over other people going, "you gonna eat that? cause if you don't want it...."

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

I'd try one of each flavor, provided they were about the size of the mini-cupcakes sometimes seen in grocery store bakeries: Mmmmmm!

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I said five 'cause of the five different kinds.

But I really don't know and it would depend on, y'know, what else there was to eat, etc.

[genarti]

I answered two, but my actual answer is "two or maybe three, unless there were enough tasty-sounding flavors that I'd want to eat more than that to try one of each." I'm semi-picky about dessert flavors, though, and more for savory things than sweet.

From the list provided, for example, my answer remains "two or maybe three."

[ckd]

Three but I'd probably try to score a bite (or at least a sniff) of the two flavors I didn't eat.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I tagged 'zero' because I'm on a painfully low fat diet. If the cupcakes have *not* been made with that in mind, I probably can't have one. If they *have* been made with that in mind.... well, have you ever eaten a fat free cupcake?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have not. Thank heavens.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Weird. Neither of the 'zero' choices is showing on the graph for me. (Which is to say, the graph says zero people have chosen 'zero'.)

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

I do not have a sweet tooth and one traditionally sugary mini-cupcake with traditionally sugary frosting is just about the perfect size for me.

[redbird]

I tend to want other desserts, because in recent years my experience is that cupcakes tend to emphasize the frosting at the expense of making sure the cake itself is good. I don't expect that you would do that, but presented with a plate of cupcakes and also with (say) one of cookies and one of fruit, plus some savories, I would probably go for the cookies without stopping to think about it and remember "Mrissa made these, they won't be bland vehicles for too much sugary frosting."

[aedifica]

If it's a grazing sort of party I'll probably have three or fewer over the course of it, unless the first one is so delicious as to make me ignore the savories, which would be unusual.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

I am assuming here that "mini" means "one bite"; at that level I will have one of each flavor, and then maybe one more to help compare them. If they're bigger I'll start looking at sharing with my partners so I still have a bite of each flavor, plus a little, without leaving half-eaten cupcakes all over the place.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I think that would depend on how big they were and what sort of party - if it's the sort of party where I would keep wandering past trays of interesting-looking small things for a whole evening I'm probably likely to eat more types of thing than at a three-course sit-down dinner.

I'd probably want to try all five, and (unless very tiny, very tempting, and a long party) have no more than that. I think I'd be more likely to have two or three, and swap halves/steal bites from others - assuming I knew at least one other person sufficiently well - so that I could try all of them, if the party was sufficiently casual that swapping food wouldn't be rude.

Goodness, what a lot of qualified statements! I think hypothetical cupcakes may be a bit tricky to count.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

The curve on your sample set would make a statistician proud.