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Article: Partners rise to success in biscuit baking venture
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 1, 1988
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It was one of those foods that seem destined to become best
sellers: crunchy, rich, little biscuits flavored with sharp Cheddar
and zipped up with a bit of hot pepper.
Whenever Lee Bufford's aunt, Bobbie Escoe, threw a party, it
didn't much matter what else she served - everybody made a beeline
for her cheese biscuits.
Bufford and her colleague and friend, Beverly Seckinger, decided
that if they found the crunchy little gems irresistible, maybe other
people would feel the same way.
Thus was born the Seckinger-Lee Co.'s first product, Escoe's
Cheese Biscuits. Seckinger and Bufford had numerous "focus" sessions
with their friends and family, drawing up plans for making, packaging
and ...