Sprinkles

What exactly are sprinkles, and why do people like them, and are they healthy?
--Belinda

Sprinkles are the little colored mouse turds put on cupcakes and other baked goods which are enjoying unprecedented popularity due to the retro-comfort food epidemic. They are made of pretty much what you'd expect: partially hydrogenated oils, wax, sugar, artificial colors. They are essentially not food, but edible decoration. They are multi-colored for nostalgic purposes, and also because if they were black they would look too much like the mouse turds they are. They aren't mouse turds. They are actually less nutritious than mouse turds.*



*It is not recommeded that you eat mouse turds.