Thanksgiving pie-how to be honest with a guest - Page 9

libbyannE · ‎10-27-2010

Let her bring what she likes. I can’t stand any kind of pumpkin pie, but, yes, I would ask the hostess what to bring and carry out her wishes. If I were you, I would not make a big deal out of it.

Cakers3 · ‎06-17-2015

After all is said and done, I find it awful that food is just tossed as garbage. It rankles me when food is wasted; I think both the OP and the sister are locking horns, if you will, over a pie.

How important is it, really.

Gather with family and thank the stars above that another year is ending without having to look at an empty chair.

Someday that pie will no longer be there; and a part of Thanksgiving will have changed forever. Because it won't be the pie that is missed; it will be the person. I hope.

""I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues."-The Lorax

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

you do yors, let her bring hers. maybe when no one eats it, she'll get it. it's not worth it, say 0.

Freedom isn't free, someone has paid for it.

FrostyBabe1 · ‎05-09-2016

This isn't really about a pie at all. It's about control, and the sister is determined to have it. Personally, I don't have time for that nonsense, but if she's brought it before and nothing has been said as of yet, I'd speak up. Gently, yet firmly.

~The more someone needs to brag about how wonderful, special, successful, wealthy or important they are, the greater the likelihood that it isn't true. ~

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

LOL This gets funnier every time visit. People are so willing to fight it out and create an incident over.....a bleeping pie...lol

SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

probably the cheapest pie left at the store and she gets good price on it

why she won't change.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@chrystaltree wrote:
LOL This gets funnier every time visit. People are so willing to fight it out and create an incident over.....a bleeping pie...lol

Like everyone says, it isn't pie. She is bound and determined to do something she knows the host doesn't want to do. The pie is her badge of authority. So no, it isn't about pie.

I'll bet this woman has to have her way a lot. Haven't you known people like that? She makes others feel intimidated, and for the host, it probably will be liberating to shake it off and not play into the game. Just say nothing and ignore her demands.

chetmax · ‎02-18-2014

dont sweat the small stuff. You cant change her, let her bring it and have your own pies at the table. Its just a one day event. Let it go.

RainCityWoman · ‎06-16-2015

@Yahooey wrote:

I once made a Banofee Pie and the crust was rock hard. Can't even cut it with a knife - it was hacked into pieces. It was tasty if you have good jaws. Some that didn't have good teeth or want to save their teeth ate the filling but wouldn't attempt the crust. I laughed and jawed my way through.

I love Banofee Pie. I usually make regular pie crust for it. Sometimes I buy the graham cracker crust, mainly because when I make that kind of crust it has too much butter in it, AND sometimes it is horrible to cut.

Sadiesadie · ‎08-05-2011

My mother was an excellent cook. She would insist we had to have two green cooked vegetables to go with all the starch...mash potatoes and yams and rolls, stuffing...but since it was Thanksgiving everyone wanted to indulge in those starches and carbs... She eventually quit when she realized very little was eaten. She’d take it back home to eat herself. Then she decided she’d bring freshly cooked cranberry sauce which really no one liked. We'd put a tiny bit on our plates but again no one cared for it so she’d take it back home. That time she really got her feelings hurt that no one would eat it.

She stuck to baking her pies which were gobbled down.