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.
Yes and Yes and Yes. Has he never worked in an office?
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nope never heard of it….coffee cake you say? does it taste like coffee?
Ashley @ mrs007.com´s lastest post..A 007 morning
Hmmm. Quite common. Is it possible he’s pulling your leg to see if you blog about it?
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What? Of course people eat coffee cake! When I was an undergrad, I would buy those individually sized coffee cakes as snacks.
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I’m with you on this one. I can’t imagine someone not knowing about coffee cake!
@Laurin Oooh, he better NOT have punked me!
Of course, he seemed pretty serious and confused by my assertion that he should know about coffee cake.
Hmm….
Yes! On all counts..however we’re more of an Entenman’s family…in fact, I’ve got some on the table right now….mmmm…
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Yes, I’ve heard of it (of course!) and eaten it (yum!) and now I really want some!
Coffee Cake is the bomb (i’m so hip) I knew what coffee cake was before I knew what coffee was
I also, have about 7 recipes for it
I need help.
Well that’s just bizarre. Much like my reaction when my boyfriend told me he’d never had gingerale. I was like……….haven’t you ever had fruit punch at a party? Like, as a child? Ever? Why have you not had ginger ale? You know why? They don’t sell it in restaurants in southern California. It’s VERY strange to find out your fave drink is an east coast thing.
Dude, everyone should know what coffee cake is. It is some sort of breakfastish staple when you get together to eat. Surely he has had it somewhere, sometime. I would have to phone it in to to the MIL to verify his story.
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Yes, of course I’ve heard of and had coffee cake. Mmm…coffee cake…
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I’m pretty sure I’ve been fairly 50/50 on these arguments which has made me think that if/when I ever get to meet Tate in person (damn it that we missed out getting together in December!) I’ll get along with him swimingly.
However, I’ll have to reconsider that position, because I’m not entirely sure I can be friends with someone who doesn’t know what coffee cake is.
(And, on another note, I’m not bitter AT ALL that you didn’t comment & tell Label Daddy to send me to BlogHer. Really. Not at ALL.) *MWAH*
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Yes and yes.. definitely.
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Totally common – he’s clearly been deprived of the cakey goodness.
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I can’t see how anyone can go through life and not have even heard of coffee cake. It’s one thing to never have eaten it, but quite absurd to have never even heard of it.
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Yup, eaten it a LOT. Sara Lee version, even.
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Seriously? Has he never been in a Starbucks? Or a grocery store?
He can’t be serious!
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Yes, heard of. My mom usually made it for when people came over for coffee in the am. Hence the name coffee cake I guess??
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WTF?!?!?
Has the boy NEVER been in a Starbucks?? It’s like, ALWAYS front and center in their display case.
Sheesh!!
EVERYONE knows COFFEE CAKE!!! Geez!
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Coffee cake is the best! He’s really never even heard of it? What did he think it was made of?
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What? Never heard of coffee cake? That’s completely insane. Are you sure he didn’t hit his head sometime before this?
Coffee cake is the reason all of my family members wake up to songs – “wakey wakey time for cake-y”. Geez.
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Um, your husband must have been raised by wolves. Coffee cake? Really?
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He has to be the only person in the US who hasn’t heard of coffee cake. Except for (maybe) recent immigrants. Or small babies who just haven’t had any yet.
But “delicious” and “Stollen” I didn’t know went together…..I think I need to try it to believe it. Have her send me some.
PsychMamma´s lastest post..Success
He has clearly been living under a rock — EVERYONE knows what coffee cake is. Seriously!
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Never heard of it… never had it. Maybe it’s because I’m a guy??? Does it taste like coffee? Is it like Tiramisu?
I’m totally for serious.
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I’m with you on this one. Everyone should know what coffee cake is.
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Has he never been to a funeral/wake? Wakes are coffee cake meccas.
I thought it was “Nobody DOES IT like Sara Lee.” Now that I’m saying it- probably not so much.
Anyway, heard of it, eaten it. Did it have any of that yummy cheese in it? If so, scoop it out and send it to me in a big tub!
Coffee cake should be common knowledge. Hello, it’s even in the glass cases in coffee shops and convenience stores!
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um, ya, EVERYONE has heard of coffee cake. What a weirdo.
and I didn’t read through all of the comments, but its “Nobody does it like Sara Lee!”
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Definitely with you. It’s like donuts (doughnuts?), isn’t it? And when I was a kid I thought it was “Nobody does it like Sara Lee,” too, and couldn’t figure out what Sara could do so well. Hmmm. Coffee cake, turns out.
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Heard of it, never had it.
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Coffee cake. It’s cake, and you eat it with your coffee… my mom used to make it. Even if you’d never eaten it Entenmanns makes it and it’s at the grocery store. I think it’s odd that he has never heard of it. It makes me wonder what everyday things might be out there that I’ve never heard of.
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My mom used to make coffee cakes and so do I. I’m with you – everyone has heard of coffee cake, haven’t they? Although I will admit that I’ve never seen the Sara Lee ones (I live in Canada – maybe they’re not sold here?).
Okay, I’m from the Northwest and even I know what coffee cake is!
Seriously my mom used to make the most amazing blueberry coffee cake…. well, except for the one time she put in 1/4 cup of cinnamon instead of 1/4 teaspoon! Me thinks I need to go get that recipe!
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Yes, coffee cake is a well=known phenomenon. But my husband is notorious for being in the dark about such things as well!
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Coffee cake rocks! In fact, my Hubby and his family were Air Force and my SIL so loved Sara Lee coffee cakes, but they were often unable to get them overseas. So it became a family tradition to have one on Xmas morning b/c it was so “special”. We still have one every Xmas (and Thanksgiving if we’re together) morning.
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He’s from Missouri you say? Are you sure about that? Maybe he’s had it but called it something else?
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You’re right, he’s wrong, just the way it should be!
I am constantly amazed at the list of things that my husband has never heard of. Just ridiculous! I often feel sorry for him!
Coffee cake is yum. Though I really like monkey bread too.
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Dude. Even restaurant buffets have coffee cake. Has he never had continental breakfast in a hotel? There is seriously no way he’s never heard of coffee cake.
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Wait, on second thought, ask him if he knows what kuchen is. I think they are basically the same thing, so maybe he just knows it by a different name. You’re still right, though.
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I think most people know what coffee cake is. Even if they don’t eat it I would think most people would have heard of it.
You can’t always assume common knowledge really is common though. Until very, very recently (like in the last few weeks) my husband though jackalopes were real.
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Good coffee cake is a rare and wondrous thing…but mediocre coffee cake is quite common. Weird that he has never heard of it!
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I have eaten, baked and enjoyed every bite of every coffee cake I’ve ever been lucky enough to get my mitts on. YUMMM!
I think it’s just a “guy thing”. They don’t concern themselves with names of things, just things.
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Even up here in the sticks, we know what coffee cake is…and LOVE it
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Duh, anything you can make with bisquick is common. Yeesh. We used to have coffee cake in school lunches!!
He has to be joking.
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@Beth Ginger ale!? He’s never heard of ginger ale?? What did his mother give him when he had an upset stomach, that stuff is practically tummy ache elixir in my house.
@punkinmama He probably hasn’t ever been in a Starbucks. He’s the cheapest man alive.