Pie filling.

It always ticks me off when I see pie filling cans in the food drive bins at church. I mean, who the hell is raiding their pantry and dumping their leftover Thanksgiving Day cans of pumpkin pie filling on the poor? "They'll eat anything," I'm sure they say. This is not to suggest the poor do not deserve dessert. I think the poor should have as much dessert as anyone else. But if you are down and out, I'm not sure blueberry pie filling is the number one thing on your grocery list. Pat, from work, had the audacity to defend this practice. Of course, Pat claims she would never put pie filling in a collection basket... yea right! Here is a summary of the exchange.

"There are plenty of things you can do with pie filling," Pat said.
"Are you kidding me? You mean the poor and their insatiable lust for Belgian waffles? Or maybe crepes?" I replied.
"You can mix pie filling with rice."
"Who the hell mixes pie filling with rice?!"
"Well, why not? I'm sure it tastes good."
"It's not about how good it tastes. Pie filling and rice is not a meal."
"Because you say it isn't?"
"Are you nuts? Pie filling is for pie."
"Well, the poor can make pies."
"Well, where's the crust then? If you put pie filling in a collection basket, you should also donate the proper ingredient for pie crust. And maybe disposable pie tins. And where should these pies bake? Leave them out in the sun?"
"Poor people can have ovens."
"Whatever happened to green beans? Have you ever heard of green beans?"
"What, so all poor people should just shut up and eat green beans? What about enjoying life?"
"You are out of control."
"Likewise."

The best part... during this entire conversation, Chris, a physicist friend, was sitting in the background shouting from his computer station, "Let them eat cake."