To me, they primarily tasted like maple syrup, which is not a flavor I normally expect to encounter on a dry and salty snack food.

Eh, I think older brother is still better, especially the way it's described in the book where Sandor is like 6 years old and Gregor is old enough that he really doesn't play with little kid toys any more, so Gregor's being an abuser on multiple levels - both being a violent psycho and choosing an incredibly petty…

A fancy bra and a half-open silk bathrobe, was what it looked like to me.

Nah, you don't eat the giant pie with the live birds inside - that one's just for show. Notice how the big pie wasn't touched after Joffrey opened it, and servants were immediately bringing out plates with slices of pie - presumably normal pie full of cooked meat and no feathers or bird crap.

It's not so much that killing a random baby is darker, as that the exchange between Daenerys and the salesman - "You have babies murdered in front of their mothers and all the mothers get is some cash?" / "LOL no, the cash goes to their owners. The mothers are slaves, they don't get squat." - helps her realize how bad…