Huffington Post writer Andrea Jarrell claimed that she was inspired to ask her family to pie her by a short story by Lorrie Moore. Pictures are in Huff Po blog "52 Firsts In 52 Weeks: My Year Of Living Dangerously" Has anyone heard of this Lorrie Moore short story? I would love to read it.
"She stood in the doorway, holding the uneaten meringue pie. 'That skirt, by the way, is great,' she said in the June night. 'Orange is a good color on you. Orange and gold.' 'Thanks,' I said. Then, without warning, she suddenly lifted up the pie and pushed it into her own face. When she pulled off the tin, meringue clung to her skin like blown snow. The foam of it covered her lashes and brows and, with her red hair, for a minute she looked like a demented Queen Elizabeth. 'What the fuck?' I said, shaking my head. I needed new friends. I would go to more conferences and meet more people. 'I've always wanted to do that,' said Robin. The mask of meringue on her face looked eerie, not clownish at all, and her mouth speaking through the white foam seemed to be a separate creature entirely, a puppet or a fish. 'I've always wanted to do that, and now I have.' 'Hey,' I said. 'There's no business like show business.' I was digging in my purse for my car keys. Long hair flying over her head, bits of meringue dropping on the porch, she took a dramatic bow. 'Everything,' she added, from behind her mask, 'everything, everything, well, almost everything about it' - she gulped a little pie that had fallen in from one corner of her mouth - 'is appealing.' 'Brava,' I said, smiling. I had found my keys. 'Now I'm out of here.' 'Of course,' she said, gesturing with her one pie-free hand. 'Onward.' "
However, everyone here knows that meringue pies barely stick, & are not ideal for these purposes. Unrealistic!
Unrealistic if it were a STORE BOUGHT meringue pie... Yes we all know not to waste money on those foam rubber disappointments. But the pie in the story is home made by the pie-curious character herself. That's the kind of woman I dream of. A pie-curious pastry chef! I'm sure fresh meringue pies could made that would work. I love that both of these authors are potential pie fighters. One wrote about pieing and the other arranged to get pied.
Love you, too
