Saturday, April 6, 2019

The Saturday Snapshot #33



 
     I loved this place in Charlottesville, Virginia, not far from the university. Loved the graphics, the counter, the clean, retro interior. I loved the service, loved everything about the place.
     Well, almost everything. There was one significant exception:
     The pie.
     I just wasn't loving the pie.
     I wanted to love it. I tried to love it. 
     But the love just was not there.
     The crust, well, it wasn't Sarah Stegner's crust. And the filling, well, it was awful sweet. Maybe that's how they like it down South. And I hate to say an unkind word about a spunky independent place with a love-at-first-sight name like Quality Pie. I sat there, staring at the half-finished piece of pie, willing myself to like it more than I did.
     But I failed. The fault is mine, I am sure. Not the pie's. It is no doubt exactly what people who like that sort of thing like. But that person is not me.
     Just one piece of advice:
     Go for the homemade cinnamon donuts instead. My disappointment with the pie was such, I found comfort in a donut. It was fantastic.   




3 comments:

  1. The doughnuts do look more enticing than the pie. Just the fact that the filling is spilling out of the crust is a bit off putting to me and as much as I love sweetness, for me, too much is worse than not enough.

    john

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  2. Neil - I'm not sure what was the point of this column. If I owned this business then I would feel bad for a review that wasn't very complimentary.

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