In article >,
"Vox Humana" > wrote:

> I love cheesecake and I think I make a good one, same with carrot cake.
> When my partner would go home to visit his mother, I would try to send
> something. As it was usually a special occasion, I often sent a large
> cheesecake. Last year his mother came for a visit. We were at a restaurant
> and someone pointed out that they had cheesecake on the menu. The Evil
> mother-in-law spontaneously frowned and said "I wouldn't go out of my way
> for cheesecake." I was really ****ed because often it wasn't convenient to
> bake something and pack it for a long road trip. She also announced earlier
> in that visit that cinnamon causes heartburn and therefore she doesn't eat
> anything with cinnamon - scratch the carrot cake! I decided that I
> wouldn't be baking anything for her in the future. Ironically, she
> purchased a Junior's Cheesecake from QVC for Thanksgiving. I checked the
> QVC website and found that the cake, with shipping, costs about $42. The
> cheesecake that I make happens to be out of Junior's cookbook and they claim
> it is the same one that they sell in their restaurant. I haven't figured
> out why she bought it since she said she didn't like cheesecake and in fact,
> said she didn't care for the one she ordered. In any event, I was glad that
> her ambivalence was on her dime and not mine.

Um, maybe she bought it for someone else??

Then again, there are many people who will do silly things for
"celebrity." "Oh, it's a *Junior's* cheesecake!" There are people who
are determined to believe that certain famous things (food or other
items) simply cannot be replicated at home. It doesn't matter that the
cake you made is from the Junior's cookbook, it's simply not a Junior's
cheesecake. Or so the thinking goes.

Of course, there are many instances (in my mind) where this is a *good*
thing. I don't want to replicate the mass-produced thing. The version of
Tootsie Rolls that I make are, IMHO, better than the famous product. But
not only have tastes been often skewed in favor of the mass-produced
product, I think many people have been automatically biased against the
home-made one.

Of course, the shvigger may simply have been malicious.

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