The delicious, longstanding beef between Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle, continues: the Queen of Soul has announced plans to ready her own soul food line to compete with Ms. Patti’s pies.
During an interview with Detroit’s Local 4 News, Ms. Franklin said she is in the midst of planning a food line that includes chili, gumbo, baked chicken and desserts. When asked if she’d tasted Ms. Patti’s sweet potato pie, which became an internet sensation last November, she said no—“but Ms. Patti’s gonna have to move that pie to the side!”