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.
Jennifer
February 26, 2009 at 9:50 am
@Joe I don’t believe you.
Jennifer
February 26, 2009 at 9:52 am
@Carmen Sara Lee coffee cakes are usually found in your grocer’s freezer…though I suppose that maybe not in Canada?!
Connie @ Young and Relentless
February 26, 2009 at 9:55 am
I grew up with coffee cake but we also called our couch a davenport. Could be a regional thing…..
jen
February 26, 2009 at 10:05 am
i had this exact same conversation with my husband one day.
i think it ended with me telling him that must have been deprived. because everyone has heard of coffee cake. (and his mom can’t cook … oops. did i just say that? so what the hell did she serve?)
gotcher back on this one lady. (and if your comment had IPA capabilities … i would have used them.)
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Amy
February 26, 2009 at 10:11 am
I’m with you! Coffee cake is yummy.
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Must Be Motherhood
February 26, 2009 at 10:15 am
Perhaps the “Entenmann’s Crumb Cake” is a more familiar concept to the man?
(You say coffeecake, he says crumb cake, let’s all just StUFF OUR FACES!)
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Mary @ Giving Up On Perfect
February 26, 2009 at 10:17 am
Interesting idea? Wha???
Yes, I have made and eaten coffee cake many a time. Growing up, we had it once a week.
Mmm…now I’m craving coffee cake.
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Devan
February 26, 2009 at 10:29 am
Seriously? Who has never heard of coffee cake?!
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Annie
February 26, 2009 at 10:32 am
Okay – I had NO clue what coffee cake was until very recently. In fact, I’m still puzzled as to why it’s called ‘coffee cake’ any I’ve tasted doesn’t taste at all of coffee – or is it that you eat it with coffee?
But, my excuse is that I’m a foreigner – not sure what Tate’s is
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Misty
February 26, 2009 at 10:43 am
Of COURSE coffee cake is an American tradition that *most* people know about.
Maybe it is a boy thing? That extra appendage seems to render them incapable of so many things. Color differentiation…discernment of baked goods…etc.
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Jennifer
February 26, 2009 at 10:43 am
@Annie, You have a perfectly acceptable excuse for not having heard of coffee cake. My husband, though of Irish descent, has never been out of the US. He has NO excuse!
It is named such because it’s meant to be eaten w/coffee.
ali
February 26, 2009 at 11:12 am
while i’ve never actually had sara lee coffee cake (i don’t think we have that in canada), i was under the impression that EVERYONE knows WHAT coffee cake is…
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Amy
February 26, 2009 at 11:14 am
I had to tell someone over the age of say…20 (and I think I’m being generous here!) what coffee cake, I would assume they’d grown up on a rice farm in Cambodia or the wild flatlands of Russia. Places where they don’t have coffee cake. But your husband?? That’s just crazy.
Mommy Daisy
February 26, 2009 at 11:27 am
Yes, I have had coffee cake…although not the Sara Lee variety. I’ve had and made homemade (super easy and yummy).
T with Honey
February 26, 2009 at 11:30 am
I had the honor of introducing coffee cake to Honey during our college years. He’s the only person I have ever met that had never before encountered coffee cake… but he grew up in the SOVIET UNION!!
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T with Honey
February 26, 2009 at 11:33 am
OK – I just read Amy’s comment about growing up on the wild flatlands of Russia and cracked up laughing!!
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Heather, Queen of Shake Shake
February 26, 2009 at 11:44 am
What? Tate, that’s like looking at crumbs on the kitchen counter and not knowing what it is or what to do with it.
Wait…now I understand.
Shania
February 26, 2009 at 11:52 am
He’s clearly a mutant posing as human and you should be very wary.
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mpotter
February 26, 2009 at 11:52 am
absolutely- coffee cake is delish.
and i prefer entenmann’s crumb cake.
and no, it’s not made of crumbs, lest tate not understand that, either.
but how funny!
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Colleen - Mommy Always Wins
February 26, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Wow. Yeah. His Mom must have served that coffee cake IN A CARDBOARD BOX…cuz wow.
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Colleen - Mommy Always Wins
February 26, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Oops. Meant “stollen”. Served stollen in a cardboard box. GAH. I can’t even be SNARKY right.
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The SIL
February 26, 2009 at 12:07 pm
After living under the same roof as Tate for 16 years, I can assure you he has had coffee cake. This is obviously one of his “funny” jokes he’s pulling on you.
Carrie
February 26, 2009 at 12:16 pm
WT…? He needs to get out more often.
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valerie
February 26, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Oh yeah. You totally win.
Little Debbie makes tiny, tasty, wrapped in pairs coffee cakes. Yummmm…
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mayberry
February 26, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I’ve never drunk coffee in my entire life but I definitely have heard of and eaten coffee cake!
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Karly
February 26, 2009 at 1:26 pm
OF COURSE coffee cake is a normal food that everyone should know about. Where has Tate been? You win! Totally!
And if you are looking to bake him a coffee cake, I have the best, most delicious, perfect coffee cake recipe here: http://bunsinmyoven.com/2009/01/11/banana-coffee-cake-with-chocolate-chip-streusel-oh-my-word/
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isa
February 26, 2009 at 1:28 pm
I was 21 when I had my first slice. Never heard of it before.
catnip
February 26, 2009 at 1:42 pm
All this talk of coffee cake is making me hungry.
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tracey
February 26, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Tate led a sheltered childhood…
Kelly
February 26, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Coffee cake is yummy! There’s a party in my tummy! Yummy Yummy!
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Knot
February 26, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I had coffee cake every Sunday morning before church growing up. It was mom’s easy way out. Still love it minus the pecans. Wish I had some now.
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Christine
February 26, 2009 at 2:57 pm
I’d kill for a slice (or the whole thing!) of Entemanns Rasberry Danish Coffee Cake thing. Damn mid-afternoon sugar craving is in high-gear now!
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Christine
February 26, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I’d kill for a slice (or the whole thing!) of Entemanns Rasberry Danish Coffee Cake thing. Damn mid-afternoon sugar craving is in high-gear now!
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Sorry… forgot to say great post – can’t wait to read your next one!
the mil in stl
February 26, 2009 at 6:15 pm
You have got to be kidding!!!!He had coffee cake and it was Sara Lee ( or maybe Nancy Ann from our local store) He was “yankin your chain”. Did he actually EAT it?
the mil in stl
February 26, 2009 at 6:22 pm
P.S. He was not raised by wolves..thank you very much!!!
WM
February 26, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Ha, I love that your MIL commented.
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Carrie
February 26, 2009 at 7:08 pm
ok I’m with you on this one! Everyone knows what coffee cake is, has he not been in a Starbucks? They have some delicious coffee cake right in the glass case of goodness.
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ccr in MA
February 26, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Poor Tate, he really has never had coffee cake? It’s certainly been a happy part of my life!
Stephany
February 27, 2009 at 1:10 am
OMG is this funny! Obviously, coffee cake is super-common, and I don’t think I know anyone who makes it from scratch… don’t mess with sara lee. Has he also never heard of coffee cake’s fruity cousins: cobbler, and brown betty?
Or has he just never had dessert for breakfast before?
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Mad Woman
February 27, 2009 at 7:33 am
Um…does he live under a rock?
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kompostela
February 27, 2009 at 8:50 am
What is coffee cake?:)))) I’ve also haven’t tried it:)) Will you throw some stones on me?
MommyNamedApril
February 27, 2009 at 9:08 am
very common. um, like, crazy common.
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Sarah
February 27, 2009 at 10:16 am
You have to be a special kind of oblivious to have not picked up on the concept of COFFEE CAKE after living your entire life in this country.
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punkinmama
February 27, 2009 at 11:50 am
So, I went to Starbucks this morning and ordered a piece of the Low Fat Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake in honor of your husband… and the whole time I ate it, I thought, “Man, is he deprived!”. It’s delicious!
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Christina
February 27, 2009 at 2:21 pm
When I think Coffee Cake I immediately think of Little Debbies.
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Cathy
February 27, 2009 at 2:23 pm
This is a crazy one. Coffee cake. Yummy. Who hasn’t heard of coffee cake? Crazy Tate.
Kim Adams
February 27, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Mmmm… coffee cake. You are making me hungry and I just ate lunch
I definitely know about coffee cake, it is so yummy!
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The Glamorous Life
February 27, 2009 at 4:16 pm
It is so common I am eating it right now.
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Barb @ getupandplay
February 27, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I think coffee cake is pretty common, however, perhaps he just thought of it as cake?
slynnro
February 27, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Coffee cake is only THE WORLD’S GREATEST FOOD OMG.
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