FlatPie

Greetings from RadCon! Between my panels this afternoon I’m going to take my camera around to get you guys a few photos. I wish I’d had my camera at the hotel cafe this afternoon, though. I had a sandwich in the green room for lunch, so when I went to be social, I ordered a piece of cherry pie to round out my meal.

That is the flattest pie I have ever experienced. FlatPie had no structural cohesion, either in crust or filling, so it looked like more of a brightly colored puddle with a decorative triangle above and below than anything you might consider a slice. Don’t get me wrong! FlatPie tasted fine, once you united portions of filling and crust on your fork, it was just very unprepossessing on the plate.

That wasn’t the best part of FlatPie, though. The best part of FlatPie was its friend, LongToothpick. LongToothpick was the type of toothpick that you’d use for a sandwich on a hoagie, or other tall bread product or especially high filling stack. It was roughly five times the height of FlatPie. It wasn’t stuck into FlatPie, though. It was laid along the top triangle, like FlatPie’s flatness had sucked the will to stick right out of it. I think that must be very depressing, though. LongToothpick’s very purpose in life was to hold things together and upright, but the moment it met FlatPie, it was defeated.