Cheesecake And The Golden Girls

No one actually ever ate any of it. They'd just put a little bit on their fork, then start to talk, and put the fork down.

When I taught middle school in the early 2000s, there was a student in my class who was obviously gay and from a conservative Jehovah's Witness family.

He knew every detail about Judy Garland's life and even he knew the "I'll get the cheesecake" line

it wasn't always plain. The 1st one they ever eat together as seen in the "how they met" flashback episode is something like a "double fudge chocolate cheesecake" according to Rose, who answers Blanche "What's in the box?"

Not sure we ever see it though. Plus Sophia once was cooking a chocolate ricotta cheesecake to try and gain back her 2 pounds.

But did he have a Golden Girls wall clock?

And all I ever got to eat was rice cakes!

They often had chocolate cake in the refrigerator and ice cream at the ready, too.

I remember Rose and Dorothy saying it the most

And don't forget "The Whip Cream!"

And remember when they ate fruit cocktail on bagels?

Flavored cheesecakes weren't standard in grocery stores like they are today

[quote]And why was it always plain?

Oh honey, it's like you don't even realize how fat you type...

What does cheesecake taste like?

R11 Oh honey, it's like you don't even realize how you type like a teenage girl...

Like 50 Cent said after the Super Bowl, you have to be ashamed of your fat to be fat shamed

Blanche at a lot of pudding pops too. Dorothy once quipped, "Blanche, last weekend you ate so many pudding pops, you could've built the Eiffel Tower from the sticks."

R15 that's when she was abstaining from sex because she got a pacemaker and was afraid to be wild in bed again.

Who wants popcorn?

But were they ever seen eating cheesecake on the lanai?

I've always wanted to try Rose's "Maple Syrup Honey Brown Sugar Molasses Rice Krispies Log."

One time, Becky was mistaken for a cherry cheesecake.

r19=fat becky

The Golden Girls were a Cheesecake Factory

FAT WHORES REJOICE!

Cheesecake is quite nasty plain. But they always seemed to put something with it.

Good cheesecake is delicious plain.

Didn't they usually top it with whipped cream and crushed Oreos?

Not as many cheesecakes as I thought. Someone made a chart.

Maybe someone on DL can make me this Pistachio cheesecake for my birthday

It's probably plain because of Dorothy and Sophia. They were from NYC, if you remember.

Dorothy's cheesecake farts were legendary!

Wow no cheesecake at all in S7. Maybe that's why the ratings dropped.

They were constantly eating rich, fatty foods. There is no way they would be as thin as they were with the diets they had. Unless every time Sophia made lasagne al forno they ate one bite and threw the rest in the trash.

Roseanne, The Nanny, and Golden Girls always make me hungry, I have to eat something whenever I watch them.

and the whipped cream was always located in Blanche's bedroom, R8.

In real life, Blanche and Rose would be the ones up at night eating cheesecake and talking. Sophia would have an earlier bedtime than the others. Dorothy was irritable and probably wanted alone time in her room away from people before she went to sleep.

[quote] Blanche at a lot of pudding pops too.

They were Popsicles.

Dorothy, a Popsicle-stick purse for you. Sophia, a Popsicle-stick potpourri box, and for you, Rose, two lovely Popsicle-stick earrings.

Rose was eating all the cheesecakes to maintain those big ass titties!

Did any of you enjoy Rose’s Scandinavian concoctions? Smelt-kabobs

Cheesecake was considered the standard decadent dessert in the 80s until Tiramisu came onto the scene and nabbed first place as the dessert of the decade

Dove bars also made a splash in the rich dessert world of the 80s

Blanche was the only fat one, especially in season 2. Betty had the best figure of the four.

Blanche was cute in season 1. After that none of them had much of a figure. Rose just had big tits.

[quote] Betty had the best figure of the four.

And you all wonder why I took a dump in her dressing room!

None of them were fat. They weren't shopping in the plus size department. The camera also adds 10 lbs so they all were pretty thin.

[quote]The camera also adds 10 lbs so they all were pretty thin.

How many cameras did they have pointed at Rue McClanahan?

[Quote]None of them were fat.

Rose had a huge gut that couldn't be distracted away from with belts or her huge tits.

Dorothy always wore loose fitting smocks and draped clothing to hide what Blanche called her "spare tire."

After Season 1 Blanche must have been in that kitchen every night eating cheesecake because she blew up like the Goodyear Blimp!

Sophia was the only one who stayed about the same throughout the run of the series.

The fattest person ever on this show was the matchmaker Sophia hired to eat- I mean find a date for Dorothy.

R47 Was Mrs. Cunty, I mean Mrs. Conti fatter than Blanche's former wannabe lover Ham Lushbough? If she was bigger, Ham gave her a run for her money. As did Blanche's fat ass daughter Rebecca!

Rebecca!

Mrs. Cunty!

[quote]I've always wanted to try Rose's "Maple Syrup Honey Brown Sugar Molasses Rice Krispies Log."

Pics, please!

Oh, don’t be gauche, R18.

R52 Right?

Cheesecake is to be scarfed down in the middle of the night in the kitchen with the curtains drawn.

Blanche is more public about her sex life than she is about her cheesecake feedings (poor next door neighbor Barbara Weston has to listen to the sex all night long)!

Mrs. Contini loved sheet cakes.

[quote]Not as many cheesecakes as I thought. Someone made a chart.

Is this what passes for gay culture in the twenty-first century?

Rue was rather svelte in Season 6 when Blanche dated that mama's boy anchorman.

Blanche burned off all of those cheesecake calories with her sexcapades.

Rue had a stocky figure, but I wouldn't call her fat. She was just built like a rectangle. Small tits, no waist.

I'm not interested in anything pumpkin spice, but pumpkin cheesecake is good

Can you imagine if they opened a Cheesecake Factory in Miami and the girls went?

Rose would ultimately be the most compatible, low-maintenance roommate

Blanche would be fun, but flaky and always blowing you off for any random dude

R61 And Dorothy would be the party pooper who always has to be responsible and sensible.

Rose would probably be the better all around roommate if not for her long ass boring St Olaf stories.

Fuck those old broads. I would rather hang out with Clayton Hollingsworth's hot cop husband, Doug.

I remember some EW interview with all 3 Girls (I think it was for GGs 20th anniversary, so 2005) where Betty made some joke like “you know Rue had this theory that if you ate the cheesecake when the cameras were rolling, there were no calories.” I guess that’s what passes as cunty these days but the way she said it was actually very funny.

Betty and Rue were just about the same size and probably were around the same weight (most of the time - Rue fluctuated so much) but built totally in reverse - Betty was 100% top (and middle) heavy while Rue was all bottom heavy. Betty also more or less stayed the same weight (“thin-ish”) her entire life - maybe gaining a few pounds each decade - which obviously effects life longevity.

Really no cheesecake in season 7 - not even references? I find that so hard to believe.

R64 How did that nelly southern bottom land a hot top cop?

References to cheesecake should hold as much weight and count as much as actual cheesecakes sightings

r66=Lois Lamont

OP, it wasn’t always plain, how dare you?

I wish that Clayton's Doug, Blanche's younger man Dirk, and the vet from the "End of the Curse" episode all had more screen time. I thought they were hotties.

Also, the young man at the sperm bank to whom Sophia remarked, "I bet this is more fun than giving blood!" 😂

Like so many other foods or beverages in my younger days could down one or two huge slices of cheesecake late at night or out early morning, then go to bed and sleep like a baby. No more!

Others are correct in that like many other sitcoms the girls never really ate anything. Think it was just a stereotypical thing; women when upset or something tend to eat, and their first choice is usually something rich like ice cream or a type of cake. That and or course the old standby, chocolates.

Other kaffeeklatsch is fraus having a kaffeeklatsch where they're sitting around gabbing and eating something, usually cake. You saw this on SOAP where Jessica and her sister where always in the kitchen having cake/coffee and a gab when something happened.

Back to GGs, it wasn't always cheesecake. One time Rose suggested instead of going out and trying to pick up men (Blanche's idea), they finish off some Rocky Road ice cream in freezer. In another episode Blanche is upset about something, looks in freezer for ice cream, finds there isn't any and basically says "fuck it, I'll go to the supermarket". This while dressed in her pajamas. To that she says another "fuck it", and says something about putting on her coat in the car....

Her coat. In Miami.

Sorry, this was just always an annoyance for me, since I lived in South Florida for 15 years. You might need an actual coat once every 15-20 years. Sweaters would see use a handful of times each year. Otherwise you wear as little as possible (not that anybody wanted to see the Girls prancing around in swimsuits, but they went overboard in the other direction).

I remember an episode where they're coming back from a softball game and are complaining about how unbearably hot it is, but they're wearing long pants and sweaters/sweatshirts. 😂

My friend thinks that the soundstage was air-conditioned, which is why the girls often dressed in layers.

I would love to have a goats cheese cake.

Peggy Rea went way back in her career on TV. She would occasionally show up as one of the girls in the group of friends that Lucy and Ethel hung out with for bridge or whatever. She was one of Ethel's victims when Ethel played out the scene about baby Ricky with Mrs. Trumbel during the combined card playing date.

One time Angela made a cheese cake from milk Becky had expressed for little baby Oreo.

Becky would inhale cheesecake.

The gals would definitely be discussing the slap heard 'round the world over cheesecake tonight

Give me cake now

[quote]Flavored cheesecakes weren't standard in grocery stores like they are today

And yet bakeries existed.

R81 Flavored cheesecakes weren't standard in bakeries like they are today.

Maybe not in stores, but even a restaurant like Bob's Big Boy was serving strawberry cheesecake in the 60s.

Were we supposed to infer that the cop and the stripper dressed like a cop wound up doing each other? That's what I always took away from Dorothy sayng that they were wearing each other's hats and things were getting 'weird'.

r81/r82 I remember as a little kid seeing flavored cheesecakes in my favorite bakery, Termini's. They were the fruit on the bottom type, and there was always a divot in one corner where the fruit(cherry, blueberry, pineapple, etc) peeped through. All were dusted on top with cinnamon.

Bain's Deli, a Philly institution BITD, was famous for their cherry topped cheesecake, and also their sugared and cinnamon-ed graham cracker crumb topped variety.

For the longest time cheesecakes were the fluffier, grainier type(dubbed 'Jewish style', but also typical of Italian bakeries), unless you lived in NYC and had access to the smoother and denser sort their bakeries were famous for.

Your cheesecake-with-the-Golden-Girls fantasy is one step closer to reality!

They finally fired that gray haired baker that refused to wear a hairnet.

A Golden Girls restaurant is coming to LA.

Ack sorry for the repeat.

R88 Whoever owns Golden Girls should join forces with the Cheesecake Factory.

R87 Ham Lushbough is so far from being my type but there was something about the way he asked Blanche for a "quickie" that got me all hot and bothered. I woulda said YES! HE really is a sexy hungry devil! LOL

The girls IRL were known to hate, fucking loathe cheesecake, so fuck youse OP.

Never say "cheesecake" in front of Becky. Then again, there's no room for anything in front of Becky.

[quote]Betty was 100% top

So Allen Ludden got the strap-on treatment. Interesting.

If the Golden Girls actually lived together, they probably would have done well with an upscale Italian deli style restaurant. Picture it....Sophia's Trattoria, open for sandwiches, coffee, cheesecake, Tiramisu, wine -Rose as the loveable hostess for the lunchtime set, who would cover the wall with their photos and Christmas cards -Rue's Booze-n-Bellini's for the after-work swingin Miami singles -Sophia's weeknight specials cooking homestyle Italian dinners -Dorothy the no-nonsense manager who handles the books and any unruly ex-New Yorker customers who love her because they remind her of Elaine at Elaine's

R92 I believe it was only Bea Arthur who didn't care for cheesecake.

Some DataLoungers lose their shit if there's the slightest mention of eating cheeseacke on the lanai

Did they never do this?

Is it true Bea took a dump in Betty's dressing room or is it just a rumour?

Rumour

Rue is the only one who ever actually eats it. That’s why she was a fucking cow at times.

The others just pushed it around.

How has The Cheesecake Factory not capitalized on The Golden Girls?

Rue was the ugliest cunt in history, why'd she care if she got fat.