fandomhigh | 20th Century Food Crimes, Friday 5/19, First Period

"Hey, everyone," Summer greeted from the front of the classroom with that usual beatific grin that brightened her face whenever she was put into a position of clear power over people's palate and taste buds. "Glad to see we didn't scare you off too badly last week, and to reward you for your perseverance, we're going to be looking into something that might be a little less obviously food crime, and putting it up for debate, focused around one main question: is it a food crime to claim to be one thing while very obviously not being that thing?"

“Like how cheesecake isn’t a cake?” Stark, full of foolish hope, asked.

"No," said Summer, unapologetic. Well, maybe a little bit, because it did feel like this was going to be particularly insulting since they involved pie, two of which were revealed dramatically with the lift of a couple of cloches. "More like when an apple pie is not really an apple pie, or maybe when a pecan pie is not really a pecan pie?"

“Not like when Boston Cream Pie isn’t a pie?” Poor Stark. He was trying! He sighed. “I didn’t really think so.”

"More like when when a pie is still a pie," Summer reiterated helpfully, "but uses stuff like Ritz crackers and pinto beans! Let's get started!"

“There shouldn’t be beans in pie,” Stark told her. “The crackers weren’t terrible the last time, at least.”

"Look on the bright side," Summer offered. "At least they're not green beans."

Ooh, she should make a green bean pie.

“Please don’t make a green bean pie,” Stark said quickly, giving his fellow teacher a pleading look. He couldn’t read narrative but he knew Summer fairly well.

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Give each of the pie recipes a try, or, better yet, if you know any other 'mock' pie recipes, share them! And discuss whether or not this should be allowed in the court of food law.

(Even if the cracker apple pie is weirdly delicious, somehow).

"Well, the mock apple pie is just a chemical reaction," Raiden said. "But Ritz crackers are delicious all on their own so I never really saw the point."

"I've had mock apple pie before!" Steve said happily. "The lady in the next apartment over brought one by for my mom's birthday back in the 1920s."

"That was so nice of your neighbor!" exclaimed the resident golden retriever in person form.

"It really was," Steve agreed. "No one had anything, so we shared what little we found."

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