marie callender's pies are made from PEOPLE!

[kylerexpop]

if you've never taken home a pie from marie callender's, or have no idea what "marie callender's" is, this will not amuse you.

BUT: i think twice a year the restaurant does a "pie month" where all their delicious pies are only $6 each. as i love a lot of them, but especially the rhubarb, i tend to get a lot for friends and family; often going into insulin shock. ha ha! not really (the insulin shock part)

every so often, though, i eat a piece directly out of the box, and i end up staring at the inside of the top flap. where the image is a big round smiley face, with a triangle-sized being cut out and removed around the area of the image's left eye. the implication being your pie is winking at you while a delicious piece is being removed.

but see what i just said? YOUR PIE IS WINKING AT YOU.

their pies are MADE OUT OF PEOPLE! possibly. i don't have a clue what "rhubarb" is. it could be people, right? oh no!

[sarahbot]

Ohhhhh, rhubarb pies are soooooo good. Now I want one.

(And rhubarb is a plant. Maybe a vegetable, I don't know. It grows in stalks like celery out of the ground, and it's a bugger to pull out. Particularly if you're six years old and you have to pull so hard you fall down every time. This is why you are always chosen, so that your family members can watch humorously. Ah, childhood.)

Anyway, so I don't think it's people. But your description makes me think of the cover of the Watchmen, with the bloody happy face. Also fun.

[Spiderdancer]

sarahbot said:

(And rhubarb is a plant. Maybe a vegetable, I don't know. It grows in stalks like celery out of the ground, and it's a bugger to pull out. Particularly if you're six years old and you have to pull so hard you fall down every time. This is why you are always chosen, so that your family members can watch humorously. Ah, childhood.)

Yup, biologically speaking rhubarb is a vegetable, since the part of it we eat is the stem (not a fruiting body). Not that this matters, since it's legal for people to refer to tomatoes as vegetables.

Strawberry rhubarb pie. Mmmmm.

[varana]

Botanically speaking bananas are classified as herbs, while strawberries are apparantly nuts. At least that's what they said on a kiddie science show on telly the other night.

[Spiderdancer]

-Botanically- speaking? Not in any of my biology classes. But then, I was on the animal track, so I only had the one Plant Bio plus the long series of amazingly bizarre plant reproductive mechanics in Genetics. (You think human sperm have it tough. I'm amazed flowers manage to reproduce at all.)

Perhaps this is the kind of "botanical" classification that is done by shampoo manufacturers..?

[varana]

I've often wondered at those ahampoo adds myself. Do those big "scientific" words actually mean anything? Mot to mention those beauty labs with fancy names. *shudders*

[kylerexpop]

what was i thinking when i started this thread? that's kind of weird.

i still believe it, though. marie callender's pies are made from PEOPLE!

please don't sue me, marie callender's! i still love your pies. rhubarb is amazing!