“Hey, Cupcake! You’re Outta Here!”

The new cry of the nannies, apparently. If you think the ban by New York City on trans fats was the only thing happening in the food wars, you're wrong. There are bans going into place in schools on the humble cupcake. It's got a lot of people upset, too.

Once a cupcake wasn't something to think about. It was just what your mom brought to school for your birthday. But this year, as schools across the country begin enforcing new federally mandated "wellness policies," many are banning the little treats. And parents are fighting back.

When the principal at George Mason Elementary School in Alexandria explained to the PTA earlier this year that cupcakes were out, a furor erupted.

"A lot of people are really angry," said Karen Epperson, a George Mason parent. "They think this is really stupid."

Mind you, Epperson said, it's not the kids who are upset. Kids are not the ones who are so devoted to cupcakes.

At the same time they're being booted from classrooms, cupcakes have become the latest hipster chic food. Entire blogs are dedicated to cupcake culture. Expensive Johnny Cupcakes "Make Cupcakes Not War" T-shirts are in demand. Cupcakes were raved about on "Sex in the City" and rapped about on "Saturday Night Live."

Just last week, the bakery, coffee shop and dessert lounge Buzz, decorated with flattened cupcake liners, opened in Alexandria, joining a growing number of high-end cupcake-specialty bakeries from Magnolia in New York to Citizen Cupcake in San Francisco.

But the bans in schools are part of the emerging nanny-statism assault on "unhealthy" eating. Which the nannies will be cheerfully waging for the foreseeable future. The Post article says that it is just the aging boomers who have fond memories of cupcakes that are fighting against these bans. But it's all for the best of intentions, the nannies respond.

Every day, we're told: More children are dangerously overweight. More children are diabetic. More children have life-threatening allergies to everything from peanuts to wheat to milk. More children sit around watching TV and playing video games. And, as many schools know, every classroom is divided between the cupcake-haves, the ones whose mothers dutifully lug in trays of them, and the cupcake-have-nots, whose mothers can't afford to or don't know that it's expected.

It's all about fairness. Good Lord. The right to make your own decisions is being nibbled away. One cupcake at a time.