Comments on: How Not to Make a Pumpkin Pie http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/ Random spurious persiflage Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:20:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Elsepth http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-919 Elsepth Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:08:05 +0000 http://blog.belm.com/?p=2729#comment-919 Trust me, sulking isn't my style, especially over something that happened 22 years ago. You reminded me of the scene of Robin presented you with the pie as if it was yesterday. She grinning, and you recoiling with a look of absolute horror when the blindfold was taken off. All I remembered of the story was that it had to do with the process of someone baking a pie so gruesome you'd hoped to never see it again. The actual story is funny beyond belief: it had me shaking with laughter. Thank you for telling it! Trust me, sulking isn’t my style, especially over something that happened 22 years ago.

You reminded me of the scene of Robin presented you with the pie as if it was yesterday. She grinning, and you recoiling with a look of absolute horror when the blindfold was taken off. All I remembered of the story was that it had to do with the process of someone baking a pie so gruesome you’d hoped to never see it again.

The actual story is funny beyond belief: it had me shaking with laughter. Thank you for telling it!

]]> By: David http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-918 David Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:39:57 +0000 http://blog.belm.com/?p=2729#comment-918 The only people who had heard the story prior to Robin's pie-baking were those who had been invited to the party, and Robin still lived in Boston back then. You were the first non-resident to hear the story, so quit yer sulking. The only people who had heard the story prior to Robin’s pie-baking were those who had been invited to the party, and Robin still lived in Boston back then. You were the first non-resident to hear the story, so quit yer sulking.

]]> By: Elsepth http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-917 Elsepth Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:24:17 +0000 http://blog.belm.com/?p=2729#comment-917 I had so totally forgotten that. Worse, I didn't hear the story of the great pumpkin pie that wasn't until the day Robin served you with hers . . . and you told it to me to explain what it was she had given you. Now I find that you'd told everyone else that story, everyone else but me. I think I'm going to sulk. On the other hand, you tell the story even better now than you did then. I had so totally forgotten that. Worse, I didn’t hear the story of the great pumpkin pie that wasn’t until the day Robin served you with hers . . . and you told it to me to explain what it was she had given you. Now I find that you’d told everyone else that story, everyone else but me. I think I’m going to sulk.

On the other hand, you tell the story even better now than you did then.

]]> By: David http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-915 David Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:43:13 +0000 http://blog.belm.com/?p=2729#comment-915 I have another "cooking in a house full of geeks" story coming soon. I have another “cooking in a house full of geeks” story coming soon.

]]> By: David http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-914 David Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:41:58 +0000 http://blog.belm.com/?p=2729#comment-914 Russell didn't cook, didn't own any kitchen gadgets, and didn't contribute any games to the gaming room, so he's an outlier on the Venn diagram you're attempting to construct. Russell didn’t cook, didn’t own any kitchen gadgets, and didn’t contribute any games to the gaming room, so he’s an outlier on the Venn diagram you’re attempting to construct.

]]> By: David http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-913 David Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:40:39 +0000 http://blog.belm.com/?p=2729#comment-913 If your pies didn't quiver when poked, they were automatically better than what I witnessed. If your pies didn’t quiver when poked, they were automatically better than what I witnessed.

]]> By: Jamie O'Keefe http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-912 Jamie O'Keefe Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:11:20 +0000 http://blog.belm.com/?p=2729#comment-912 wow, just wow. great story. wow, just wow. great story.

]]> By: Terra http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-911 Terra Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:01:58 +0000 http://blog.belm.com/?p=2729#comment-911 The successes are better to eat, but as I'm learning, the failures are always more fun to talk about. I was wondering if the "men who can cook and own their own kitchen gadgets effect" would be canceled out by the "we had an attic space dedicated to gaming" effect. Guess not.... The successes are better to eat, but as I’m learning, the failures are always more fun to talk about.

I was wondering if the “men who can cook and own their own kitchen gadgets effect” would be canceled out by the “we had an attic space dedicated to gaming” effect. Guess not….

]]> By: Merryl http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-910 Merryl Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:37:12 +0000 http://blog.belm.com/?p=2729#comment-910 When I was a teenager, we went off to some sort of "youth retreat" for a weekend. (Yes, even secular humanists do this to their teenagers.) One night all of us had to make dinner for the group, and I was assigned to the pumpkin pie team. We had to make pies out of pie crusts and pumpkins, and none of us had ever done it before. I am so SO happy to say that our pies turned out better than that. Not actually GOOD, but much better than THAT. *shudder* When I was a teenager, we went off to some sort of “youth retreat” for a weekend. (Yes, even secular humanists do this to their teenagers.) One night all of us had to make dinner for the group, and I was assigned to the pumpkin pie team. We had to make pies out of pie crusts and pumpkins, and none of us had ever done it before. I am so SO happy to say that our pies turned out better than that. Not actually GOOD, but much better than THAT. *shudder*

]]> By: David http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/20/how-not-to-make-a-pumpkin-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-909 David Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:12:10 +0000 http://blog.belm.com/?p=2729#comment-909 Yup, squash is the way to go. It was the dirty secret behind Toscanini's pumpkin pie ice cream: no pumpkin at all. Yup, squash is the way to go. It was the dirty secret behind Toscanini’s pumpkin pie ice cream: no pumpkin at all.

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