A Life of Pie

Once upon a time, there lived a boy named Jim. Jim loved pie. He entered a pie eating contest in 5th grade. He loved pie and prepared himself well for the competition. He was able to eat more pie than anyone else in his class! He was happy (not to mention full!) and had brought honor to his family’s name. However, the next year, a new fifth grader named Sal became determined to challenge Jim’s record and eat more pie than anyone ever had before! Sal spent countless nights practicing and envisioning in his mind how he would fit more and more slices of pie into his belly, one pie tin at a time. A few days before the town celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day, Sal entered his school’s annual pie eating competition, and he blew Jim’s record out of the water! Sal found a way to eat more than 500 slices of pie in one sitting - an incredible feat indeed!

Jim was amazed! He could truly not have been happier, because if the competition was friendly and based around food, then everyone came out winners - everybody at NCS (Newark Culinary School) learned that the stomach was capable of holding so much more food than anyone believed to be possible.

Jim went on to study at UD (the University of Dining) where he took a class taught by Sal’s own father! He spent the semester learning how to bake pies in magical ovens that would considerably shrink the size of the pies down to those of small tarts, then expand the pies back to their original size. During the first half of the semester, the pies’ flavors were unaffected, but during the second half, some of the flavors changed upon re-expansion. It was surely an intriguing experience to digest!