On our way home, we stopped in Greensboro to see the site of the first "lunch counter sit in", one of many events that prompted the start of the Civil Rights era. Four men, sat at a Woolworth's lunch counter waiting to be served for hours. Of course, they never expected to be waited on, but the powerful message they conveyed has left a mark on history. I can't say the same about Maxie B's. The store was very cute, lots of comfortable, cushiony chairs, fancy lamps and wall decorations. I ordered a simple chocolate cupcake with buttercream icing. It was so tasteless, I may as well of been eating a paper cupcake. I couldn't even finish it, which NEVER happens. Billy had better luck with his hummingbird cupcake. It was a combination of different fruits with a cream cheese icing. It compares with banana bread. He also had a pumpkin chocolate cupcake. He said the cake was a bit dry, but the bits of chocolate chips within the cake helped a little. He also just didn't care for the overall pumpkin flavor, but liked the cream cheese icing. These cupcakes were also refrigerated, but they offered to warm them up. I'm not sure what they did, but it sounded like they blew a hair dryer on them for 30 seconds. It helped the temperature, but then the icing would slip off. My cupcake gets 1/2 a sprinkle and that's generous. The hummingbird gets a 3 1/2 and the pumpkin, 3 sprinkles.
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