My favorites are the "Foodie" catalogues. I love food and all things related to food. I love zesters and peelers and ricers. I love spices and herbs and teas and chocolates. So I was thrilled when I discovered a Dean and Deluca catalogue sandwiched between a Land's End and a Oriental Trading Company in my mailbox on Friday. As I turned each page I fully expected to find over priced pretentious foods and gift baskets but I was in no way prepared to find this:
This my friends is a sweet potato pie.
A sweet potato pie that costs 94 dollars and 45 cents. No...you read that correctly $94.45 in US currency. That is 65 dollars for the pie, 13 dollars in shipping plus an additional 15 for overnight service. Now I could see if the pie was made from organic free trade ingredients, or if a portion of the sales went to the homeless or something. But-no. This is just a pie made from sweet potatoes, spices, eggs, milk. Or in my estimation about 4 dollars of ingredients. REALLY? REALLY! People this is a pie. How pretentious and delusional would a person have to be to order this pie. I can understand that you may not want your holiday deserts to be from the Kroger Bakery, but there has to be a middle ground.
My recommendation...buy a frozen pie from the grocer and give the remaining 90 dollars to a battered women's shelter-now that will leave a much better taste in you mouth than a 12 dollar slice of pie.
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