Word: pies
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...doesn't mean much: only that he was and presumably still is intrigued and delighted by the sight of multiple-produced American food. Not so much the package (like the soup can) as the soup itself, or for that matter the sandwich, the cake or the slice of pie, sitting there in virginal garishness, the coconut icing soft and fluffy as a baby angel's wingpits, under the fluorescent tubes in the glass diner case...
...still life making it the only one of its kind. But Nature is a greater mass producer than Culture. The sea is full of sea robins and whiting, all looking the same. The peach tree is laden with identical peaches. So it is with Thiebaud's cakes and pies. He is fascinated by variation within repetition, but he never thinks of repetition as being antipoetic because, in fact, nothing is exactly the same as anything else: two slices of the same pie are never identical...
...even though Roth gets all the credit for being funny, Pynchon is funnier, finding the joke in much harder places than doing an American Pie with a piece of liver. In Mason and Dixon--written entirely in 18th century English, not an easy patois for slapstick--Ben Franklin gives people electric shocks as a bar trick, and George Washington gets high on the hemp from his own farm and speaks Yiddish. In Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop engages in a Malcolm X-assisted dive into a jazz-club toilet bowl that puts Trainspotting to shame...
...crisps and sugary soda become not just prizes but icons of civilization. "The premise is 16 Americans in a strange, deprivational world," says Burnett. "You want these modern things from home, be it Doritos, Mountain Dew, beer, gifts from Target." The goodies are to Survivor's cast as apple pie and baseball were to G.I.s: symbols of home and hearth, the stuff our guys and gals overseas are fighting...
...It’s only been a couple of years that a family member didn’t either bake or make the crust or slice the apples of every single pie we sell––and we sell thousands each day,” her daughter-in-law says...