It has been a good long while since I’ve settled a debate between Tate and myself here on the ol’ blog. (This is in no way a reflection of fewer arguments between Tate and I, DEFINITELY NOT, but a reflection on the lack of even slightly humorous debates recently.)
This is so dumb, I want to thank you all ahead of time for clearly being on my side for this one. Because REALLY. THIS IS SO DUMB.
On Monday, I had to bring the breakfast for my bible study/just moved support group. Growing up in my house, a quick and easy breakfast for such an event would most likely have been a store bought coffee cake, courtesy of everyone’s personal chef (AND LOYAL FRIEND), Sara Lee. Sara Lee makes a lovely assortment of coffee cakes which EVERYONE is familiar with and enjoys. Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee! Or is it Nobody does like Sara Lee!
Our group this past Monday was small, with only a few of us able to come so I had a lot of coffee cake left over. I brought it home and that evening when Tate got home, he was curious.
“What is this stuff?” he asked.
OBVIOUSLY he was just asking a rhetorical question because DUH! If you looked at it, it was CLEARLY a coffee cake.
Tate could see that I was looking at him like he was an idiot, so he repeated the question. “No seriously. What is this stuff?”
I explained that it was coffee cake with as much annoyance in my voice as I could muster because having to explain coffee cake to someone is like explaining chocolate or beer!
After my “explanation,” Tate floored me when he just shrugged like, “huh! Coffee cake. Interesting idea.” Like, he’d never HAD COFFEE CAKE.
(Background information for fairness to Tate: His mom isn’t a Sara Lee coffee cake breakfast serving kind of woman. She handmakes the most delicious Stollen in cases that require a breakfast bread sort of dish.)
(But still, I bet even his mother won’t believe that he hasn’t HAD or at least HEARD OF coffee cake.)
Please help me settle this debate, that coffee cake is COMMON and most people have HEARD OF it and they have EATEN it.
Sarah
February 27, 2009 at 6:03 pm
How is it that he doesn’t know how common it is? It’s EVERYWHERE…Yeah. Definitely with you on this one.
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Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com
February 27, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I didn’t know there were people in this world who didn’t know what coffee cake was. Lol. But before I met my husband, I also didn’t know there were people who didn’t understand the phrase “fit to be tied” or who hadn’t seen “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” like ten million times. So. You know. You probably want to disregard my comment.
Huh.
EEN-TERESTING.
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the planet of janet
February 27, 2009 at 9:29 pm
you totally win this one.
sara lee? coffee cake? EVERYONE’S heard of that!!!
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Lynette
February 27, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Yeah..Common as you know, COFFEE. LOL. Very hard to believe.
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jlmcq
February 28, 2009 at 10:30 am
Coffee cake is a universally known bakery item. Has he never strolled through the bakery section at a supermarket? In every state I’ve ever lived in, coffee cake is a staple in the grocery bakery. My mother is famous for her homemade sour cream coffee cake (a well-known variety of coffee cake) which she has brought to PTA meetings, church bible studies, and baby showers for years, in addition to giving them as Christmas gifts to teachers, neighbors. Tate lacks fundamental baked-goods education.
magpie
March 7, 2009 at 12:06 am
Yes times three.