Ah, palmier's. They're like, the fakest of cookies to make. Take puff pastry, which no one makes and everyone buys, maybe rub some shit on the puff pastry if you want, cut it, and roll it, and bake it. They're probably pretty good though I guess. They show up in like, every cookie cookbook. (Don't ask me why, but I've read a lot.) Also, like, it's weird. I've gotten called a hipster and I never cared enough to argue about it (call me what you see me, it's your eyes, after all) but I can't relate to the scene you describe at all. "Cupping"? WTF is "cupping"? I think it's just cuz I wear skinny jeans and converse or vans and have big glasses and like certain select "more unknown" - (ha! a laughable assertion, tbh) bands. Idk. Don't care. Working at a bank has given me too much insight into the financial world, I guess, I've adopted too many secret "republican" tendencies. (Fiscal conservatives are a-okay by me.)
I'm trying to get in to keeping up with stuff like that and when I lived on my own paying rent that's exactly what I did. Probably because the other options would have destroyed me. Moving out again in a year and I'll likely figure something out. For now it's trying to organize my day though as I'm taking online courses and it's very difficult to stay on top of things. Actually just finished planning out tomorrow including a block of time devoted to "free time". I'm realizing that if I want to function in society I need a schedule and next step is the budget stuff.
Palmiers are totally fake but let's be honest: you're not going to buy a roll of puff pastry to blow on palmiers and anything made up mostly of butter and sugar is likely to be pretty good if it's fresh. If you want to know if your Mexican restaurant is any good, order the albondigas. Hard to fake decent albondigas. If you want to avoid food poisoning, order a quesadilla. Hard to fuck up a quesadilla. I love quesadillas and I'm fond of palmiers. Croissants? Those bitches are execution-dependent. "Cupping" is the use of glass jars and flame in order to bring humors and bodily toxins to the surface of the skin.