SF Weekly's Jonathan Kauffman has -- at last! -- discovered what some of us have known since the dawn of traumatic childhood birthday parties. Namely, cupcakes are gross. Well, some of them. Putting aside our own issues with vulgar (no, not indulgent) cake-to-frosting ratios, Kaufmann had the misfortune to come across a foul-flavored wee cake at American Cupcake in Cow Hollow.

Regarding their bubblegum-flavored cupcakes, he writes:

Indeed, the pink frosting on the cupcake was artificial bubblegum flavor, leading to one of the oddest dissociative states we've encountered since our 20s. The nose said gum, the mouth cake, and we kept trying to chew the cupcake as if we could blow bubbles with it. After the first mouthful, we shaved off two-thirds of the frosting, thinking if the flavor wasn't so strong the cognitive dissonance would fade. After another bite, we wrapped the remaining half of the cupcake in our paper napkin and threw it away, along with the gum-ball garnish.

OK, so this was one bad experience at a place that, by our own account, has decent sweet treats. And, of course, Orson's Elizabeth Faulkner is famous for her cupcakes, which we highly enjoy. See, we do enjoy a well-made cupcake; we're not an indiscriminate lover of them. It's just cake, you know.

But, have you tried the aforementioned bubblegum cupcake? Is it really that bad? Also, what's favorite fun-sized cake? And where can we get it?