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Paula's Latest Podcast featuring Cheryl and Grif Day from Back in the Day Bakery
Apr 28, 2016
Meet Cheryl and Grif Day from Back in the Day Bakery. Paula interviews them about some of their techniques in making sweets and delicious breads.
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hey friends I'm here with some of my
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special friends here in town this is
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Cheryl and Griff day and they own back
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in the day Nursery Back in the Day
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Bakery where did Nursery come from y'all
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I don't know maybe because I'm trying to
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tend to a bunch of dogs I'm running a
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nursery here a
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managerie uh I'm so glad that they had
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time to come in today it's a Monday and
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they're closed on Sunday and Monday uh
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now Cheryl is in charge of all the
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sweets and y'all Griff makes the most
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incredible bread you have ever put in
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your mouth they make such a wonderful
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team now Max you going to have to get
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thank you it's such a treat to go into
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their store because their name is so
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appropriate with their style because it
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really is back in the day and our last
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name's day and their last name is day so
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what how about that for quinky dink
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and what is this what what are you
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wearing today Cheryl this is uh what
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does that say I can't read it it says be
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my honey be my honey but now what are
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you doing with that on so one of my
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awesome girls at the bakery decided that
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they would be the Honey Buns uh in the
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back and then um she decided Caitlyn
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that I would be the queen bee so now I
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keep getting all these little bee
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presents and so yeah now I'm the queen
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bee of the honey bun so Griff what does
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that make you a you're a honey bun or a
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a sugar knut uh
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neither what are you they call me
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Griff okay actually they call him master
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master G Master G yeah yes I do
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everything at the bab Creek how cute and
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you you are quiet mhm you're very quiet
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and unassuming
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are people frightened of
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you um I don't believe so um bread bread
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Bakers are very in tune with uh their
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surroundings and and their dough and
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their
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dough I want you one day to teach me how
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to bake good bread you got to come I you
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know somebody just sent me a bread
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machine MH I've never used that before
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do you recommend that yeah that's a
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great great way to make bread at home
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it is but there's no preservatives in it
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or anything so you probably need to eat
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it pretty quickly don't you yeah you
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know you make bread every every few days
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or freeze it yeah yes that's a great
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idea well I love your red glasses when
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did you start wearing red glasses oh
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gosh when we were on book tour we went
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to this awesome you know ey class store
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in Minneapolis Griff's Hometown and I
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just fell in love with like four pairs I
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just love the r the red ones you know I
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didn't know how much I would like them
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but now it's just kind of become my new
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thing Sally Jessie Raphael red shoes was
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known for I saw your red kickers uh she
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was known for her red glasses and I just
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love them on you y thanks your book your
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new book yes the new book when did it
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come out it came out last spring gosh
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March 2015 yeah Lord have mercy it's
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been that long since I've talked with
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you do you have a copy mhm uh you know
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their first cookbook you wrote the
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forward to it I did I wrote the forward
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to it I thought it was the most grand
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cookbook I had ever seen I loved the
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picture of you gri now I haven't seen
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this one so oh my gosh and this is how
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they dress you can come in any day and
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find Cheryl dressed up well maybe not
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the red high heels yeah from from there
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up y'all uh but my grandmother hires
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wore a dress in high heels every day of
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her life oh I wish I could do that every
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day of her life awesome she peeled fruit
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in a fruit Factory she and my
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grandfather stood eight hours and did
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nothing but peel oranges go and
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grapefruit and when she'd come home she
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would take a bath and she would put on
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her dress and her high heels so this
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reminds me so much of the way I remember
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my grandmother hires dressing back in
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the 50s right I love the 50s I I know
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that you do uh this is just as beautiful
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as y'all's first book now I remember
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their first book uh they went to QVC
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with it yes MH they those books were
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flying one time with you yes one time
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you went with me and we had such a good
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time and their books just fly off the
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shelves y'all just fly off the shelves a
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so have you been to QVC with this one we
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went to QVC with this one too you did
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yeah and it flew too I bet it did yeah
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have you been back or just no no oh my
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gosh we just went let's see did we go
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twice again that time just once once or
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twice and they went on a Sunday and a
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Wednesday I
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remember do I did good wow and you know
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I'm crazy enough to think I might want
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to do it
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again of course once you get started I
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do I love the whole process I I I do too
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I do too by the way before I got like 14
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or 15 is that how many you have that I
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need to talk to about I just don't know
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yes you know once you get started it's
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just there's so much up there that you
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want to share with everybody so I had
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some ladies that stayed in
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your your not Hotel what do you call it
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like the the condo cond not the one at
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the beach I gu downtown I think it was
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maybe it was that one do you have two no
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okay so it was that one at the beach and
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I guess they stayed last year and they
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stayed this year too really and they
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loved it so much a lady and her husband
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and a couple other folks but anyway she
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said they were in there and they heard
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you on
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evine and you mentioned me with one of
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your ombre
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outfits oh yes I was talking about the
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cake that you taught me to exactly and
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they said that they got in the car
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immediately they were like we were just
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going to go there but after you said
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that they were like let's go let's go to
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the bakery great so that was fun great
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thank you Paula you know I listen I I
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treasure my friends that um have grown
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work ethics and and uh any time I can
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help a friend out yeah uh even if it's
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just nothing but a little mention you
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know I I really love doing that yes
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passing on uh things that people have
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helped you with and then another lady
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told me that she talked to you I guess
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she bought some things and she said I
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know Cheryl day I was like oh gosh
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but well you know Mother's Day is coming
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up it is on us very quickly and that's
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one of the things I was hoping that you
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and I could talk about along with Griff
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uh so we got to take that little quick
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break okay let's pay some bills so uh so
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be thinking Mother's Day yeah think
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Mother's Day and we'll be right back
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y'all if Griff will just shut up long
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enough us to get some things
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said there's no one quite like Mama and
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now hey y'all we're back and I'm so
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happy to see you know I asked Cheryl
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about things that we could uh suggest
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for Mother's Day for all the dads out
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there and the children to get together
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and surprise mom with something for
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Mother's Day and she immediately said
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well pass me my book and let me look
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through it I'm the same way I have to
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joggle my
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memory senior moments I call them senior
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moments although Cheryl you don't look
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your
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age well that's good you don't ever age
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does she gri no she's doing pretty well
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just hanging in there and you don't age
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either except for a little gray in your
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hair yeah I'm a gray starting to kick in
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a little bit but that's pretty and you
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know women see that as sexy and and uh
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we think it makes y'all
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smart that's
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[Laughter]
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good all right what what have you
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thought about what you come with y'all
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can always go by uh Back in the Day
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Bakery and y'all will have some
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wonderful special things right and one
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thing we will have are these you know
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the little baby cakes that I'm known for
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oh I love those baby cake I think every
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mom needs a baby it's hard for it to
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show up because the cake is white on a
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white plate but look at that isn't that
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the cutest plate somebody gave me that
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plate oh so you didn't write that on no
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it's old it's like from the 50s probably
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I knew you were coming so I baked a cake
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it's C love that got you were coming so
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I baked your cake but I would baby cakes
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vanilla mering
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buttercream and we do different ones MH
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um but they're always pretty with the
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flowers so you can go by and would you
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need to order this Cheryl we'll have
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those in the case yeah are y'all
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shipping yet we're not nope when are
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y'all going to ship I don't know I soon
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as you help me figure out how to
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deal well gosh um I I uh did a Show
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recently with Stratton leopo and he
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started shipping ice cream now you know
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that's a challenge
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so you might want to give Stratton a
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call because he is one of the nicest men
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you've ever met and he would be glad to
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give you some hints okay so if he can
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ship ice cream I think if he can ship
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ice cream surely I can figure out how to
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figure out how to ship cake yeah but I
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think I really think that y'all need to
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do that okay and consider you've been
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saying that for a while so yes yes yes
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you know I'm I'm going to evine now
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right uh with my product I saw you on
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there with some cakes from um that you
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were doing and I loved how you showed
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how you cut them to get more yeah more
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slices out of it brilliant oh well thank
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you that's just the way mama taught me
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how to slice a cake rather than those
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big old wedges that most people can't
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eat a piece that big exact um but I am
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uh I I feel like I perfected a crispy
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chocolate chip cookie the way my husband
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likes them and I like them too and I
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found somebody that has been able to
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reproduce that recipe Cheryl okay yes so
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we're offering those on evine and I've
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sold over a 100,000 cookies my gosh so
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yes if you can figure out how to ship or
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something or something we're going to
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start doing
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donuts oh you shut up honey do you know
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how much I love a donut me too but Paul
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listen
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Caitlyn my cute assistant came up with a
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dut on Saturday I told her I couldn't
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wait to tell you pe can pie
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donut I'm
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quivering I'm quivering and it's got a
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bbon glaz oh it was so good now was it a
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cake donut or yeast donut it was like a
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cake donut like oldfashioned and it was
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it had peans in it and she did like a
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bourbon pecan glaze kind of like a Twist
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on my pecan pie recipe because sounds
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like she's she is she is and she thinks
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outside the box she does you know I
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finally got smart and I started doing my
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interviews where I said I knew I was
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looking for somebody creative and I had
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her come in and make a couple of things
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and she did two twists on things that
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were in my cookbook but her own way that
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was a great idea I know now if I could
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just find a few more I know I know but
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yeah she's awesome Miss Caitlyn but um
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so we're putting in a hotline so we can
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do donuts and then we started doing
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biscuits every day you need a deep fryer
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for yeah we do so we're just like
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playing around with recipes and stuff
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right now but yeah we're getting a deep
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fryer and then I want to start happy to
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know about that biscuit we do biscuits
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every day now all right now you stay in
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your lane H okay
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that I do biscuits I know but not like
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your biscuits like little biscuits
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sandwiches oh yeah so what your biscuit
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oh honey they are good and Flaky do tail
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I have M uhuh don't give away your
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secrets rip now you talking too
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much yeah they are just really good are
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they yeast biscuits or um no they're
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butter butter butter you would go crazy
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Paula over these
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biscuits but I you know I figured out I
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always had use like a you know like a
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white lily flower and a yeah what do you
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call it a um self icing yes but for this
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new cookbook I decided Well you know a
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lot of people might have trouble finding
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that white lily in different parts of
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the country so I came up with my own
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flower
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combination and there's layers and
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layers of butter it looks like one of
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those layers and layers of butter yeah
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it looks like flaky all right now when
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are you doing these
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every day you are doing them right now
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yeah every day I will be down to do the
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biscuit test cuz you know it took me
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years Cheryl took me years working with
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different scientists people that
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formulated things right but uh to me I
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finally have the perfect biscuit mix
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honestly I have not met a biscuit I
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didn't like have you but there's
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different kind maybe one or two that I
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didn't like yeah but they are they all
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kind of you know it's they're all
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different and good in their own way
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those drop biscuits but I wanted these
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to be like tall like layers layers
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layers kind of like when you first open
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those you know Grands yes and they just
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like 16 so they're like
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that oh gosh I'm
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starving and y'all are not open today no
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midnight Griff what's going on in your
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world oh all kinds of things like I'm uh
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we're putting in a hotline as Cheryl
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said yes are you excited now do you do
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just bread Griff or do you um I am in
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charge I'm in charge of lunch
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so you you are really like the big boss
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yes yeah he's the master G I'm the
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master G decision maker isn't that great
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for you it is because that allows you to
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be so
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creative um so how many different breads
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do you make now um well I I just stick
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to two we do a sour dough and then we do
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a daily
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bread so that changes every day your
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daily bread no that's the same day every
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day okay but you do different flavors
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like you do the one Paul with ro R ol o
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yes yes and uh yeah there's some kind of
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herbs on top of that one that I love so
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much yeah Rosemary and sea salt yes you
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know I remember um I had a group of
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people coming to my house for meetings
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and I ordered what like 20 sandwiches
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from y' and you would keep off the
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vegetables or something right y'all H
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the lettuce and tomato
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so I could uh I could Grill the bun you
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know and the bread that fabulous bread
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plus you have that awesome
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Garden yes but those sandwiches just
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saved my life they're awesome they save
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my life that bread is
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incredible well anything else for
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Mother's Day so for Mother's Day oh gosh
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I love pies we talked about this last
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time I was here but what your favorite
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pie we're doing little mini pies for
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Mother's Day like little you know like
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little almost like the size of a baby
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cake what flavors I love I love baking
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in season so if I could get some darn
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rhubarb soon I I love I love rhubarb and
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strawberry do you I do I've become kind
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of obsessed with it I love making now
19:53
would that be a a double crust double
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crust mhm yeah double crust and then I
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love doing we've been doing little
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merang for people that have gluten-free
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isses merang I adore and we'll put like
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a whipped cream and some you know stewed
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different fruits on top wow and they're
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just really pretty and then we'll do
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like a little edible flour something
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like that I just love really pretty
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desserts I do too I do but
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delicious yes yes yes um well actually
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so we've got the cookbooks you know two
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cookbooks now but I do have make a good
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Mother's Day GI exactly for people that
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like to bake at home right it would be a
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perfect gift for mother but then we have
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well I know I'll probably give you a
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couple of my little cards that I had the
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girl do for us that have like gryffin
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eye on the cover and um you know there's
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just different scenes in the bakery like
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the sugar knuts and the honey buns or
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slices of pie and they're all
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Illustrated and people love we have
20:53
little prints of those too and people
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love to give those for gifts somebody
20:58
got one the other day and she said she
20:59
was going to hang out in her kitchen and
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I was like okay I don't know why
21:04
somebody wants to hang me in their
21:05
kitchen but apparently they did so it's
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just you know like of y'all keep safe so
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yes we get lots of Paula deine fans
21:15
though Paula still every day people come
21:18
in they just adore you and they love to
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tell me the next time you see Paul I
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tell her we love her and sweet lots of
21:27
sweet well I'm so glad to hear that
21:29
y'all are still doing so well y'all make
21:32
such a great team uh you know it it
21:36
would be hard if y'all both wanted to
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bake bread yeah yeah you know but we
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definitely have your talents and
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Cheryl's talents they just make this
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perfect
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combination and we appreciate it so very
21:51
much thank you y'all's talents well we
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love it we still enjoy we still are
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enjoying it and it's been we're going on
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15 years no right yeah it's coming up
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seems like yesterday I know I remember
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y'all opening up that I remember when we
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first opened and y'all were moving to
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the new location well it's not new now
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but yes and I believe has wasn't that
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about 15 years ago probably has been
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that long now so I don't remember seems
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like we moved in there uh around 2001 or
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2002 yeah so that's when we open 2002
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yes cuz I remember going in there and we
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had just opened and we were so tired but
22:36
Jamie and Jamie had invited us to come
22:38
in and you know check out the new
22:40
restaurant and we said well we're not
22:42
going to miss it but it's been that long
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ago I can't hardly believe it time just
22:47
flies when we're having a good time our
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neighborhood is getting so cute too I
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know it has come a long way like from
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Victory Drive on on North yeah uh it
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it's justun shs have opened love them I
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love a good junk shop restaurants are
23:08
coming Michael's dream is to get locked
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in y'all
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shop and y'all forget about him for just
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one night this is our egg Bak with bacon
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and
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cheese hey that's this I see the layers
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on that biscuit it's gotten better MH
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this is what now this is the breakfast
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with what bacon bacon egg bake and
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cheddar
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cheese that bacon now see y'all are
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cooking it just the way I like it I
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don't like it crisp I like some of that
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the edges a little crispy yeah maybe the
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edges but I like that soft kind of fat
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that gives it so much flavor this is
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beautiful I'm gonna try to show y'all a
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picture of this biscuit
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but I promise you we'll get the real
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picture yes I so you're serving biscuits
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all day not just at breakfast right all
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day people want to we just started doing
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a everything biscuit what's that you
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know like everything Bagels uh-huh and
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so we put the little everything spice on
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the top uh now people are going crazy
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for those with cream cheese
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or so it's like I've reinvented the
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biscuit and you you know we constantly
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have to do that don't we yeah because
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people we don't want them to get bored
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no exactly so but I still like to keep
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it in my wheelhouse you always that was
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one thing you told me years ago it's
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just got to be Southern Homemade you
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know a certain kind of
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unpretentious feeling about it yes
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you're not going to ever come in and see
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little plated desserts of you know but
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yeah yeah so it still definitely has our
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back in the day feeling I I've been into
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bakeries before where everything is so
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gorgeous to the eye right and then you
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buy some and it's and then it's far
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fresh too some of that stuff you just
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wonder how long it's been in there well
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I'm I'm proud to call y'all friends oh
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we're proud to call you
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friends but you know my my uh my biscuit
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mix you know we do it by ice cream
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Scoops at the the restaurant because
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that's the one way I can get
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consistency but I like I I Pat my dough
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out so I can make it real thick or if I
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want a thinner biscuit I can do it thin
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but I use a biscuit cutter yeah you know
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a cookie cutter with my biscuits and
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they they're just so good this is going
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to be the biscuit Show
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Now buy your mother a biscuit for
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Mother's
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Day well biscuit mix yeah some biscuit
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mix a baby cake and a baby cake perfect
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perfect this is sounding so good my
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stomach's just a growling y'all you know
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if you're lucky enough to maybe be here
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in Savannah on Mother's Day uh maybe you
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can come in and visit now they're not
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open on Sundays not currently and not
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Mondays so try to try to uh make your
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visit Tuesday through Saturday right and
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stop by
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Back in the Day Bakery you'll find uh
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Griff and Cheryl there working very very
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hard to bring y'all these wonderful
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wonderful little eats well Cheryl I had
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such a good time with y'all I'm just
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sorry that Griff did so much talking
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that you and I could hardly get a word
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in edgewise but maybe next time well
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they call us the pen and tellers of
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Bakers
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so does all the
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talk I like that obviously uh you're The
26:59
Quiet One
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yes so happy Mother's Day to all you
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mothers y'all deserve a crown you
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deserve a crown they do motherhood's
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hard see y'all
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