Current mood:

aggravated

An open letter to the Big Time Brewery upon their "New! Chicken pot pie!" announcement.
Dear Big Time Brewery:

I love your Quattro Formaggio pizza. I love your Bhagwan beer. But your chicken pot pie?

A few words on how pie is defined:

1) Pies, even chicken pot pies, have filling. Filling is more than Cream of Chicken soup -- it should be slightly thicker in consistency, but more importantly, have, vegetables sliced so that they're approximately the same size as the pieces of chicken*, not a few peas and some small carrot squares.

2) Pies have crusts. Some people make crusts with oil; some people make them with milk; you can learn about what constitutes a pie crust here. A sourdough breadbowl is not a pie crust, and does not ever become a pie crust, even if you call it a pie crust on your sandwichboard sign.

*Three pieces of chicken is not enough for a chicken pot pie anyway!

In closing, please be honest enough to refer to your chicken pot pie as "mediocre Cream of Chicken soup in a sourdough breadbowl." Thank you.

In other news; I need better French.

And in closing, a fantastic quote from my horoscope in The Stranger:

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- W.B. Yeats