Kliban by B. Kliban for July 05, 2019

Could use some clarification here. Is that pie from an old country, or old pie from any country?

Pie was a means to preserve fruit before refrigeration. It was also originally a breakfast food.

Simple Simon met a pieman,

Going to the fair;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

Let me taste your ware.

Says the pieman to Simple Simon,

Show me first your penny;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

Indeed I have not any.

“Saddle me up my big white goose,

Tie me on ’er and turn her loose.

Oh me, oh my, love that country pie."

—R. Zimmerman

The “BOB” is great, isn’t he?

I’ve heard of stone soup but stone pies? M M M M M crunchie to say the least.

The wagon carrying away the pies should have “pie wheels”. That’s the way I remember it being in the Old Country.

“Entire economies have been built on the lifting power of old women in black dresses.”

Christopher Moore

(Yes, I know their dresses aren’t black, but it still holds)

Love pie.

You call that pie? That ain’t nuthin’. Why, when I was a boy…

“Pie are round…”

Rotisserie pie! Yum!