Sara Lee....what the???????

[Gibson 7]

I feel like such an idiot.

A big Sara Lee cake truck drove by me today and the logo said, "Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee." What the?????

All my life I thought it was "Nobody does it like Sara Lee."

Where have I been and why haven't the grammar police arrested Sara Lee yet?

:cry

[edieparks 2]

LOL.

I doesn't saw the probrum.

edie

[Victoriana 10]

LOLLL! I always thought that the motto was "nobody doesnt like Sara Lee" which is just as stupid, but thats what I always heard. What a goof. Just like the little girl that was singing "shes got a chicken to ride, Shes got a chicken to rii ii iid, shes got a chicken to ride and its in her hair!

[OH Juli 15]

Gibson,

I'm with you, because I thought for the life of me, it can't be, "nobody doesn't like sara lee"....because that's just ignorant.

Goes to show ya.

[Ariel 1]

what?! maybe they changed it because it just sounds so stupid. I like the nobody does it like sare lee better.

[FarmerE 0]

I too thought it was "Nobody does it like Sara Lee." I agree with what the? lol

[sbee 0]

Totally agree. They person that cam up with that slogan should have been fired for suggesting it (and given grammar lessons).

[lepez 0]

I agree that it is one of the most annoying slogans!!!!!! However, here we are talking about it and now for some reason I feel like some pound cake. I guess that is the object. Pretty clever!

[Darragha 0]

I don't like Sara Lee. Or Little Debbi. And I have been known to perform exorcisms on Twinkies.

[BJean 16]

When you perform an exorcism on a twinkie, does the white stuff ooze out so you can get to it without fouling up the taste with that awful yellow cake?

[BJean 16]

I agree with lepez. Here's a whole thread about it. Whoever thunk it up should get a raise.

It took me a long time to understand that Huey Lewis wasn't singing, "Hit the B Square" :nervous

[Sunta 5]

Sigh, I feel like a total ass for pointing this out, but I believe that the slogan is technically correct, because it is the correct use of a double negative. The meaning is "Everyone likes Sara Lee".

While use of a double negative is often intended (incorrectly) to create a negative by the speaker, in this case, the intention is to create a positive, and therefore its usage is correct.

That being said, it is a non-standard usage of the language and would be better suited to Middle English, when double negative usage was standard.

[green 6]

When you perform an exorcism on a twinkie, does the white stuff ooze out so you can get to it without fouling up the taste with that awful yellow cake?

I use to gross out my ex-husband by calling them pus cakes. :heh:

[BJean 16]

They're probably just as nutritious as a pus cake. Oooh wait a minute, I think I'm grossed out!! :speechles