Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for April 26, 2014

Mmm… Pie…

Look at “pie bird” in Wikipedia. The pie in the poem was so big it needed 24 birds to support the crust.

Ooooh, you’re bad.

Yeah. Don’t nobody tell Hammy ’bout no Brunswick Stew.

You can always read this tale of how it happened: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5312/pg5312.html (it’s the first story in the collection).

Hammy obviously never heard the ENTIRE poem…

Trivia time, from Ren Faire:In the 16th century, an influx of “boy kings” required the creation of fanciful cooking. Hard Boiled eggs 3 feet Diameter, TurDuckEn, and Black Bird pie were created to amuse the king.

Don’t worry, Hammy. When the pie was open the birds began to sing. And I now have that song in my head for the day.

As I had heard the story, it was about Henry VIII and the period after he had confiscated the properties of the Catholic Church. He had the deeds (blackbirds) baked into a large pie and gave them away to his various cronies when he opened the pie. “And the birds began to sing” Henry’s praises.