I admit it, I am not as perfect specimen as I once thought I was. Yes, it is very hard to believe, but with help from Jack, Jim and Mr. Smirnoff, it will go down a lot smoother. After you recover from your shock at this epiphany you will want to ask: “Amanda..NO, what in the name of Marco ‘BLESSED’ Polo are you talking about?!” Well my friends for the past twenty-ish years I have been misquoting THE matriarch of baking, Miss Sara Lee. My whole (perhaps a slight exaggeration) baking life was based on the notion that “Nobody does it like Sara Lee.” The famous jingle would be caught in my head and I believe I have uttered it on more than one occasion. Needless to say that when I brought home a pumpkin pie by Miss Lee tonight and saw the tag line…my world froze. Instead of “Nobody DOES IT like Sara Lee” the true slogan is “Nobody DOESN’T like Sara Lee.” And the true slogan is in fact a LIE because my mother DOES NOT like Sara as she informed me earlier this evening (SWEET more for me). [Because of our long history, we are on a first name basis]
So in the last few hours I realized that not only had I been wrong in my quotation but that the true quote was a LIE. In fact, it would actually be safer for whoever is behind the baking empire to switch the slogan to “Nobody DOES IT like Sara Lee” because that could definitely be a better proven and supported statement than the bold-faced lie that every human that can masticate enjoys her creations. [Why do I have a feeling that at least one of you giggled when you read masticate?] As for me, I will persevere and heal my wounded ego with pie!
