TURKEY DAY AT THE PIE HOLE II

[onetouch]

WHO: Ned and Digby and you and you and you and all your closest friends
WHERE: The Pie Hole pie restaurant and bakeshop
WHEN: Thanksgiving Day, November 22 8am - November 23 1am (he'lll stick around for any stragglers tho)
WARNINGS: Shouldn't be any...
SUMMARY: Ned invites the whole City to the Pie Hole. He and Zatanna are cooking and baking everything (there are meat and meatless options), but feel free to bring a favorite from home!
FORMAT: quick/spam; make your own threads for your own people or table. on open threads estimate the time of arrival.
NO ONE IS EVER LATE!!!!!

[From the outside, the Pie Hole hasn't changed much, though the window is draped in elaborate snowflake-shaped lights, but inside is a whole other story. Zatanna has made quite a spectacle of the place, a huge banquet hall filled with long and short tables for enjoying your meal with any number of friends. And the decorations are outrageous. Ned's Christmas decorations, which were already over-the-top have all been magically enhanced and Thanksgivingsized like little crystalline pumpkin baubles and overspilling cornucopia on each buffet table, lined up in front of the kitchen. Ned is firmly putting his foot down this year: no one is to enter his kitchen but Zee or himself.

He'll be serving regular pie menu as well as breakfast (frittatas) until twelve noon at which point there will be an hour or two for people to arrive and mingle. The food will be out by 1:30-2 pm and dessert to be served at 3 pm. Ned just wants everyone to have a great day so come in and make yourself at home!! There are a few kegs as well if you all didn't listen and byob...]

Comments

[red_robin]

Some of them won't.

[ That's his typical answer; his dad sure isn't coming back. And Bruce, who even knows anymore. He can't fight to find him here, and he can't make the Porter bring him back either. ]

They probably wouldn't, but it's easier to say that than to stop feeling upset.

Do you want this pie? It's pumpkin. I don't really want it.

[foreverbouncing]

So really if you sit around being a mope you're kind of disappointing them, since they'd want you to be happy.

[She wrinkles her nose and shakes her head.]

No way, pumpkin is nasty. You want a different kind? I'll go get it, they have like, a billion. Or four. But either way it's totally a lot of pie.

[red_robin]

[ he snorts at that. Disappointing his family, like THAT'S new. ]

What's wrong with pumpkin?

[ okay it's not his favorite either but that's what people EAT on thanksgiving. ]

[foreverbouncing]

Oh come on, it's totally nasty! It's like, kind of gooey but not really and tastes weird and it sticks to your teeth and it leaves this funky pumpkin aftertaste.

[She waves her fork vaguely in the air with each point she makes.]

Apple is completely better.

[red_robin]

It's only nasty if you don't like pumpkin!

[ even he isn't sure why he's defending this okay ]

I think I like strawberry better than apple. But that's a summer pie. So. Pumpkin it is.

[foreverbouncing]

Which I don't. 'Cause it's nasty.

[She shrugs and then grins. Because arguing about pie is silly and it's hard to really be mad about it, but it's hard to be in a funk when you're doing it.]

Strawberry's awesome too. But it's no apple.

[red_robin]

[ he manages a smile that's actually almost a real smile. ]

Maybe I'll try the apple here.

Still. Strawberry is where it's AT.

[foreverbouncing]

[She nods appreciately at his agreement to have some apple, but it fades into a sad shake of her head as he continues.]

You poor, deluded boy. Lost in a sea of poor pie choices...

[Why yes, she does know how to ham it up.]

[red_robin]

Oh, come on. Surely there's one we can agree on.

[foreverbouncing]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

[She drags the sound out as she thinks about it.]

What's your opinion on shoofly pie?

This is hilarious because I LITERALLY JUST ATE A PIECE OF SHOOFLY PIE

[red_robin]

[ He looks confused. ]

I don't think I even know what that is.

I am magical like that.

[foreverbouncing]

[Here, have the biggest, most shocked frown ever.]

Dude, seriously? Never? Okay, gimmie that.

[Before Tim can react, she's swiped his pumpkin pie.]

Stay put I'll be right back.

[And in a flash she's gone. It's about thirty seconds later that she reappears, with a new plate, this one holding two pieces of Shoofly pie.]

You have to try this.

[red_robin]

I was eating that!

[ He calls after her, but it's not true and he's too late anyway. ]

What? What exactly is in this?

[ He looks down at the pie, suspiciously. ]

[foreverbouncing]

[She just grins knowingly.]

Trust me, just try it.

[red_robin]

[ He gives her a sidelong glance, but finally does actually try it. ]

Huh. This is...pretty good. Really sweet, though.

I think I like chocolate better.

[ He keeps eating this, though. Okay, so it beats pumpkin. ]

[foreverbouncing]

Told you.

[Paaaause.]

...Chocolate pie?

[red_robin]

Yeah, chocolate pie.

[foreverbouncing]

Pie. Not cake. Pie.

[Charlie might be having a little trouble with this idea.]

Ew.

[red_robin]

Yeah, pie. Are you serious, you've never had...

Okay, hang on.

[ It's Tim's turn to go hunting for pie. He brings it back to her. It's the kind with the chocolate cream filling and whipped cream on top, with chocolate shavings. ]

Here.

[foreverbouncing]

[Charlie is the most hesitant as she takes the piece of pie, considering it carefully before she tries it. And then she blinks.]

Okay, that's really good. I was picturing like...I don't even know. Chocolate...like...pumpkin sorta...man, I don't know it was awful in my head.