A Cake Named Sue

I wrote a while back about buying Twinkies on impulse. At our family gathering on the 4th one of my nieces showed up with a box of Twinkies and a box of Suzy Q’s. She had pretty much the same reason — we haven’t had these in probably 20 years….

I, of course, remember the song — most notably the version by CCR. [I think it was CCR's only top 40 hit that was not written by John Fogerty.]

If you read my Twinkie post [go ahead, I'll wait...] you know that I found a surprise when doing an image search. Since Suzy Q is not an uncommon nickname you can imagine that I found a lot that have nothing to do with the cake. Like the 2002 Ms. Bikini-USA World and a “world-renowned pole dancer, burlesque and aerial artist” and… well, you can look for yourself if you like.

Finally, before anyone posts a comment here complaining that the apostrophe in the snack cake name is incorrect, on the Hostess web site they refer to a single cake as a Suzy Q and multiple cakes as Suzy Qs. And they explain that the treat is “named after the daughter of Continental Bakeries Vice President Cliff Isaacson.” I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt and say the name on the box is a [correctly spelled] possessive and not a [misspelled] plural.