Bakery Outlets

Entenmanns outlet in Georgetown downstate (not Leatherstocking or DC)

 Freihofers Bakery Outlets had just closed stores suddenly in the Northeast, including CNY, the Finger Lakes, Mohawk and Hudson Valleys, Capital Region, New England and the Tri-State. Even the employees themselves had the rug taken off from under them. While stores big and small worldwide have been suffering the past few years, even these did not make it. Bimbo Bakeries USA, well known to Pati (Jinich, who heard of the parent company back in Mexico), and based near Patti (laBelle, who lives in Wynewood and has to limit her carbs) made the decision to close them. I put sister brand Entenmanns in Brooklyn since that was the closest thing I could find (one of several former sister brands to Loblaws that Bimbo bought), although Freihofers were headquartered in nearby Totowa, NJ, yet Bimbos acquisition brought them back to the Philadelphia area in some way, where Freihofers were founded in the Victorian era in the city proper. You can always just go to any big store to get it now.

Rivals Wonder Hostess (now part of Flowers Bakeries) used to have their own outlets in Syracuse on Court Street Road, East Molloy Road (likely not at the same time since it's a mile away) and South Bay Road in North Syracuse. The first two are a short drive from Freihofers Lyncourt store, which had Bimbos brands, as well some lesser known ones, plus institutional packages, store brands like Price Choppers PiCs and Big M (formerly made by later Penn Traffic division Penny Curtiss [name inspired by Betty Crocker based on P&Cs initials] around the corner), and some non-baked items. Those stores are quite small and you'd be lucky to fit a cornershop in them. Before my time, there was even the Millbrook Bakery Thrift Store (an early local Wonder Hostess franchise) on Spencer and N Clinton Sts on the north side of Syracuse, which is long gone and new to me. You learn something new everyday. A dying bread, I mean breed! You'd think it would still work now, saving people money, but so much retail and other things have not recovered from the past five years (you know how it is).