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It's 8:30pm, and

lavendargrrl has just been stricken by a sudden and overpowering craving for pie.

We live in St. Louis, where since the demise of Tippin's there are no longer any Pie Restaurant chains. There's never been Baker's Square here (nor Poppin Fresh, its prior incarnation).

Searching google and the various restaurant search websites returned only a couple of possibilities, none of them open past 3 pm. Finally, after calling

ona_tangent and

beckyzoole for suggestions and failing there too, we thought of Denny's. None of us care for it, but we thought that for pie it might be passable.

But then we had another idea. Bob Evans serves pie, they even have carryout whole pies! And off we went to our nearest Bob Evans, where we found pie that didn't suck at all. Not a lot of choices, but the ones we had were quite tasty.

If we win tonight's Powerball, we'll enter into negotiations to open a pie restaurant franchise. St. Louis has Dire Lack of Pie, especially late night pie. This must be remedied.

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According to Alton Brown, though, St. Louis has a plethora of donut shops, though!

'Tis true. Some of them are quite good, too. But donut shops are also a daylight critter. Except for Krispy Kreme, which I dislike, they're mostly open from dawn to noon.

Which is really weird, since all the donut shops work through the night to make the donuts for the morning...

There could have been pie right next door to our LYS, but the store expanded instead. I think the LYS made the right choice, but still...pie.

Hey! I was the one who suggested Bob Evans! Please -- credit where due.

We really need a Tippins here.

Sorry about that. You may whip me anytime at your convenience.

Mmmmmmm. Whipping and pie.....

"I like pie - do you like pie"
"Of course I like pie - don't I look like I like pie?"
"BTW, were do you get your loin cloth?"

"We have to find somewhere else to hold our improve class than the basement of the pie store."

Quoted from Scrubs - not sure which season