Is Pumpkin Pie some kind of joke? 🥧🎃🤮

Published: Thu, 12/05/24

Updated: Tue, 12/10/24

Dear Reader,

I spent a very fun and festive Thanksgiving with my friend Ms Melinda's family indulging in all the traditional yumminess. Except pumpkin pie which remains gross and inexplicable and I don't care how much Cool Whip you pile on it -- it's icky!

Honestly the whole pumpkin pie thing feels like a long-con practical joke. Like after I take a bite someone's going to jump out from the kitchen pantry crying, "Haha! Yes, we know what you're eating tastes like blandly sweet pureed disappointment, but you're the fool eating it! How do you like them pumpkins?"

And if this is true, bravo to Ms Melinda's family! Because eating that much truly disgusting gourd pie is an astonishing commitment to the joke.

I suspect I feel about pumpkin pie the way most non-Australian's feel about Vegemite. Though Vegemite is in fact magically delicious, and yes, I really mean it.

Anyway now that Thanksgiving is over what's left of the year is barreling down on me like an avalanche. Wait! Help! I'm not prepared!!! More words need to be written! *Beetles quickly back into writer cave to frantically smash on the keyboard*

XoXo,

Edwina

BOOK NEWS

I have been writing through snuffles and sniffles this week. During my travels I managed to pick up a head cold that has turned my sinuses into taps and my throat into sandpaper. I have been downing shots of Musinex like it's tequila and I'm a college student on Spring break!

Note: I have no idea whether what I'm writing is any good or not. That's for future!can-breath-without-medication-Edwina to decide. But you know what Ernest Hemingway always said: write while high on cough syrup, edit sober.

THROWBACK THURSDAY PIC

This was part of a special Monet exhibit I saw when I visited the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.

On days when I'm feeling sick and a little sorry for myself, I like to look back at pictures like this and remind myself:

(a) beauty still exists in the world, so stop being overdramatic

and (b) there's so much more to see and do, so drink your vile medicine and this too shall pass.

EDWINA'S BONUS STORIES

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As a newly minted pie 'expert', I can enthusiastically recommend House of Pies.

Their apple pie is a delight. The chocolate cream was excellent too. Even their Texas pecan was pretty good.

See my feelings about the pumpkin pie above.

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