Fat Whores, Do you Remember When Sara Lee had a full line of Desserts?

I hated how the icing would stick to the cover piece of cardboard.

Does anyone remember the Sara Lee outlet and the frozen quiches?

We sure do!

Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee.

Even their pound cake is good.

I always got that cake for my berfdays, we were broke as fuck.

I remember a coconut cake.

Jim Walton sounds like Mandy Patinkin.

They had cherry, strawberry and also blueberry cheesecake.

Read up on your Sara Lee history here.

There's nothing like Sara Lee love.

That chocolate cake tasted so good right out of the refrigerator.

Love the danish pastries. Layer upon layer upon layer.

Jerry's kids had muscular dystrophy AND juvenile diabetes.

Sara Lee quality was far better ca. 1979 than it is today but the quality of much of our supermarket food has been degraded in the last 45 years.

In the 70s my mom bought the chocolate iced chocolate cakes or the pound cakes. For some reason I didn't like sweets as a kid. But I might have if she had tried just a tad harder. Those cakes were bullshit.

"If it's not Sara Lee, who the fucks knows what you're really getting!"®

No when was this?

My parents left me some cash to go get groceries for dinner once, when I was about 11.

I bought a tin of Sara Lee frosted brownies and was shocked I couldn’t finish it.

I remember the frozen chocolate gateau in the 80’s. I’m not sure it’s even sold now in the UK. There are so many fresh and frozen desserts these days in the supermarkets, back then the selection was very small.

I got into middle Eastern food and my mom bought some Sarah Lee pita bread. That was really good.

I liked the original cheesecake (sour cream on top, no fruit), but not the "French" cheesecake with the cherries.

Whatever happened to the pecan coffee cake?

Young Buckley McAllister boldly chose Sara Lee over his aghast mother's homemade chocolate cake.

We still have that chocolate cake here in Australia.

[quote]Even their pound cake is good.

Agreed, r5.

This is a fat kid thing to do, but I somehow remember eating slices of Sara Lee pound cake pan-fried in butter, then drizzled in pancake syrup (Log Cabin).

[Quote] I got into middle Eastern food and my mom bought some Sarah Lee pita bread. That was really good.

Little known fact: Sara is a popular Middle Eastern girl’s name. Lee on the other hand…

I don’t like that store bought cheesecakes now have a dusting of graham cracker crumps instead of real cracker crumb-butter-sugar baked crust. It was like a cookie And cheesecake. That’s why I buy Edwards key lime pie. Better than cheescake and a real cookie crumb crust.

I like her carrot cake.

Sara Lee: Garden-To-Gullet Freshness©

This was another Sara Lee favorite of mine. My Mom would get them all the time. I preferred the Cheese and Apple Danishes.

Are they also known as pull-a-parts?

We used to buy 5 of their Deep Dish Apple Pie each week.

I love Sara Lee's pound cake but what I miss is Entenmann's Bakery stores. I would go there just for the chocolate cake.

[quote]R34 Entenmann's Bakery

Their stuff is sooo sweet (not that I’ve ever turned it down)

[quote]Whatever happened to the pecan coffee cake?

They still sell them at a small grocery chain in my area but they don't taste as good as they used to.

Butter Streusel Coffee Cake. Mmmm. Mmmm. Mmmm. Dangerous.

Ah yes I remember this. Have not seen it a while for sale.

Gross R5, the price is in Saudi riyals.

I liked Sara Lee's chocolate frosting, either on yellow or chocolate cake.

R37- It is dangerous.

It contains a LOT of chemicals including artificial flavoring and preservatives.

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coffee pound cake

Sometimes I see the frozen cheesecakes but that’s all

Banana cake

Sara Lee was always a good product, just thaw and serve. Too, damned small, but mmm! Finger licking, good!

The decline of Sara Lee is a textbook case of mismanagement and top level greed.

So sad … I purchased a Sara Lee cheesecake the week before the news of the company's voluntary administration broke. Such a pity that people's tastes have changed when mine hasn't.

They made awesome cookies too.

All the rejoicing that heaven allows

I hate to say it because it sounds so shitty. Their Dutch apple pie is the best pie I have ever eaten.

I remember how good Ms. Lee’s coffee, pound and carrot cakes and deep-dish apple pie were, but for the frozen cakes my mom would get the Pepperidge Farm coconut crème one, half of which I could’ve easily shoved right into my mouth (I recall that being a talent of mine from way back, on an unrelated note anyway).

When I was younger and had a metabolism and workout routing that could handle it I used to just by a Pepperidge Farms coconut cake and just leave it open on the counter with a fork in it. I could finish it in about two days. Homemade, bakery, whatever, there is no cake better than that one.

"Sara Lee: We put our blood, sweat and tears into every cake and you can taste it!"

R12 It tasted even better from tbe feeezer. Defrost for just a few minutes. Diciously chewy and down it with sone goid coffee.

We knew we were having a grown ups dessert when the Sara Lee came out! Truth be told mom’s home made puddings were heaps better but we were living the high life with a Sara Lee cheesecake!

R4, you solved a mystery for me, thank you! As a kid I could never tell if they were saying/singing, “Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee!” or “Nobody does it like Sara Lee!”

There used to be three drag queens at the local drag bar: Sara Lee, Dolly Madison, and Little Debbie. Little Debbie must have weighed 400 pounds.

[quote]r53 I used to just buy a Pepperidge Farms coconut cake and just leave it open on the counter with a fork in it. I could finish it in about two days.

i notice they’re quite affordable in the frozen section … about $5.95

(Who am I kidding?? I’ve bought them!!)

[quote]R55 …and down it with some goid coffee.

I heard that goid coffee can give you goiters!

[quote] So sad … I purchased a Sara Lee cheesecake the week before the news of the company's voluntary administration broke. Such a pity that people's tastes have changed when mine hasn't.

What do you mean?

Because of the "I Want to Eat an Entire Cake" thread on DL, I bought the Pepperidge Farm coconut cake. I was disappointed.

Well, go out now and try the chocolate one.

Love the Pepperidge Farms Coconut Cake. Even yummier was the milk chocolate cake. No more, now it's fudge. Not a fan of most fudge cakes. I don't care who packs them.

I prefer Hostess snack cakes.

Shocking that Veda Pierce would shill for pies.

Probably just to piss her mom off - Hostess was a competitor.

Once I turned 13 I stopped having birthdays but my mom would put Happy Birthday on a SL Banana Cake for me. Best b'day cake ever!

They did something to the Pepperidge Farms cakes. Not sure what, but they don't taste like they used to.

As a budding fat whore in the 1970s, I was delighted when a Dolly Madison outlet store opened nearby. I remember my mother going in and stocking up on almost expired loaves of Butternut bread, and sacks full of twin-pack snack cakes like Zingers, Koo Koos, Gem donuts, and fruit pies for a dime each. The freezer would be crammed full of sugary goodness for weeks. We all developed an appreciation for frozen-solid snack cakes as we were too impatient to let them thaw.

In my town there may be less desserts but plenty of SL ice cream.

I miss BAKERS SQUARE

Nobody CAN RESIST Sara Lee

I'M AM NOT FAT!

I love chocolate pudding. Sara Lee should use that as filling. In everything!

She's just a watered-down Lorna Doone!

We'll keep your secret.

I like the Sticky Date Pudding.

I like the original, plain cheesecake with sour cream "frosting." I wish the crust was better, though.

Sara's pecan coffee cake -- chef's kiss!

[quote] She's just a watered-down Lorna Doone!

I was molested.

By Cookie Monster.

I don't know anything about Sara Lee, but Pepperidge Farm used to have a delectably toothsome chocolate layer cake—the frosting was foamy and mousse-like.

You can trust fat people's opinion of cakes.

A hallmark of my family: a Sara Lee cake or danish on the counter, covered in aluminum foil, with a steak knife in the pan so everyone can slice off a chunk on the go.

I miss the bakery outlets.

And Jerry Lewis’s decapitated head was in every cake!

I want cake so bad, y'all—a nice piece of chocolate cake with a cold glass of milk.

MARY!

I mean

SARA!

My mother's home made pound cake with shaved polish ham piled on top.

R89, your post begs so many questions… the least of which is not, what did your mother use to polish ham?

My grandfather was the CFO for Sara Lee in the 80s, and helped produce the World's Largest Cherry Pie in Traverse City, Michigan.

^^ OMG - that man would have been my DREAM HUSBAND!!

I can just see our Sara Lee stocked wedding reception!!

[quote]r91 My grandfather … helped produce the World's Largest Cherry Pie in Traverse City, Michigan.

An event touched with bitterness and scandal, it seems:

[italic]At the time, the Guinness Book of World Records certified Traverse City’s cherry pie as the largest ever, thereby eclipsing the record set by Charlevoix, a neighboring town, 11 years earlier. But the victory was not without controversy: Charlevoix residents argued that the Traverse City pie lacked a bottom crust and therefore did not count as a full cherry pie.

I would have to agree that if there's no bottom crust, that ain't a cherry pie.

R91’s grandfather perpetrated a fraud!

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