One Last Pie In The Face for White Fang and Black Tooth

[filkertom]

Great sadness. Comedian Soupy Sales has passed away at the age of 83. Either you don't know who he was or why he was funny, or you absolutely do.

What are your favorite kinds of pie? Nothing beats a good apple for me, but peach can also be lovely.

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Great sadness. He was unique. He was recognized as the world expert in pies to the face, once brought in as an expert witness in a trial.

I'm a lemon merangue guy, when it comes to pie.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

lard...

[ladyallyn.livejournal.com]

Then tenderest crumb in pretty much *all* baking comes from lard :-) Trust me -- there's a whole section in college level Food Chemistry devoted to various fats and *why*. Short answer; has to do with fat vs protein vs moisture ratios. Long answer; I'd have to look up and don't have the books to hand.

I paid $700 in 1980s dollars to learn that (except the Gram taught me as a kid, too, but not the why). I share it now for free :-)

Re: lard...

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[sdelmonte]

Apple, definitely. Though chocolate creme will do, too. Or custard.

And Batya makes a great chicken pot pie.

Rest well, Soupy.

[ladyallyn.livejournal.com]

Remind me shortly before you get to Seattle in Jan and I'll bake you one of my "Super Magick Tongue Tickling Apple Pies". I'm not just some random geek-grrl (well, I am, but...) s00j and vixyish and stealthcello and tfabris and technoshaman and... some number of other people of our mutual acquaintance can vouch for my cooking.

Yes, the icon is one I baked.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I'll vouch for her... especially if I can help eat pie. :)

Personally, pecan, pumpkin, key lime, and mincemeat among the sweets, and chicken pot and shepherds among the savories... but I will not turn down a well-done apple (doragoon provided one to our last Jam which was VERY yummy; she used a lot of ginger, and didn't get it all smoothly crushed, which made for an INTERESTING variation... (no, if it's not *too* intense, I *like* biting into a chunk of candied ginger... woo!)... she was complaining about the fact that they've changed Crisco and that she might just have to go back to good old fashioned lard for the crust... but boy do I digress...)

But PIE in general is a Happy Thing, which is why they're a regular feature of Jam...

(Or, as cflute says when it comes to difficult decisions like "which pie", "Embrace the power of AND...")

PIE!

(Oh, and Tom, if the January weather gets to you out here, ladyallyn also knows where to get Tea that will cure what ails'ya... s00j can vouch for that, too...)

[maiac.livejournal.com]

Last summer the Detroit Historical Museum had an exhibit on "classic TV celebrities". Of course Soupy Sales was included. I'm sorry I missed their Soupy Sales film festival, though.

I had a slice of surprisingly good pumpkin pie yesterday, from a bake sale to buy "extras" for the child-care center here at work. My favorite pie? Tough call ... cherry, I'd say.

[anjala.livejournal.com]

Hello muddah, hello faddah...Yeah, he will be missed. What is remembered lives.

And pie...I like pie...my favorite flavor of pies are my mamaw's homemade Butterscotch pie (she makes the crust and filling from scratch) and her cherry pie. *nomnomnomnom*

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

You're thinking Alan Sherman.

[alfiechat.livejournal.com]

Me, I am a lemon meringue girl, followed by chocolate cream and pumpkin.

[bigbumble.livejournal.com]

Just made apple pie, using Northern Spies, last night. Had a slice with locally made vanilla ice cream. The best.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

I need to find my copy of a delightful book I got a few years back, "From Soupy to Nuts" a history of local TV in Detroit.

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Lemon meringue!

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

My fave is 3.1415926535

I remember watching his show when I was very, very little here in the NY metro area.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...Pumpkin pie! I loves it.

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

I like lemon meringue, though since I really like the filling best I usually just make myself a batch of lemon curd once in a while and dunk shortbread cookies in it.

I'm also a fan of pecan pie, though I need to avoid corn syrup now. Swapping out pure maple syrup would be expensive and probably mess with the texture a little, but if that's the only thing I am asked to bring to a gathering, I may just give it a go.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Pecan pie! I just had my first *good* piece of that (i.e. not nasty pasty store-bought crap) a couple of years ago -- one of my nieces has started bringing it to Thanksgiving dinner. Heaven!

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

NO SOUP FOR YOU!

*he would have chuckled at that...*

[sidebernie.livejournal.com]

I actually just saw a recipe for peanut butter apple pie (http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/10/peanut-butter-and-apple-pie-nuts-20091021.html) which I very much would like to try out.

[ebenbrooks.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. Yes, much sadness. He was one of the greats.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Okay, I added lots of water (well, broth) to my poverty stew, so now I can have soup for lunch. A couple of DVDs will have to watched later, one an A&E Biography of Soupy another of a 'Best of' clips, both home-made transfers from VHS tapes to DVDs.

Alas, there was no video tape around in 1953, or not yet viable for local stations, so no video of Soupy's shows here in Detroit. A few stills show some of him on set, and I think I seen a home movie, made public a few years ago, taken by crew or a visitor of the WXYZ set.

Rest in Pies Peace Milton Supman. Best comfort to his family and friends.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

French silk. I'm a sucker for anything that's smooth and chocolatey, with whipped cream on the top.

Of the two-crust pies, I really love apple the best. There are really almost no types of pie I don't like.

RIP Soupy. I'm old enough to have actually watched his show when it went national. Funny, funny stuff.

[banjoplayinnerd.livejournal.com]

The round kind, mostly.

I distinctly remember the day I turned on the TV on Saturday afternoon to watch Soupy Sales and got a documentary about wheat farming instead. Talk about a disappointed kid.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

my mom just called me to ask, Who are White Fang and Black Tooth? :'-)

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

The meanest and sweetest dogs in all of DEE-troit!

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

She remembered after I reminded her. It's been a long time since we watched Soup on Channel 5 in NYC!

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Rhubarb! Or strawberry-rhubarb. Also lemon meringue.

But really? I'll eat almost any kind of pie.

Here's a really yummy one:

Cranberry Apple Pie

3 cups diced, peeled apples
1 cup cranberries
1-1/2 cups sugar
3 T Minute tapioca
1/4 tsp salt
a refrigerated pie crust (top and bottom crusts)
1 T butter or margarine

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix fruit, sugar, tapioca, and salt. Let stand
15 min.

Line a 9-inch pie plate w/one of the pie crusts.
Fill w/fruit mixture.
Dot w/butter or margarine
Arrange lattice strips out of second crust over fruit mixture.

Bake 1 hr or until juices form bubbles that burst slowly. Cool. Makes 8
servings.

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing him on TV in NY growing up. I didn't know he was still around until I saw that he had died.

Ah, the invocation of memories.

[saint-boner.livejournal.com]

Soupy helped make me the rebel I still am today. RIP


egg custard / pecan / chocolate

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Speaking of pies, here is my Grampa Bill (left) with cook friend in 1919, waiting for Soupy Sales to be born.

He was in a cooking crew in World War I.

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

R.I.P., Soup.

Pumpkin, hands down.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Apple.
Dutch Apple.
Key Lime.
Peach.
Peanut Butter.
Strawberry/rhubarb.
Cherry.
French Silk™.
Pumpkin.
Pizza (DUH!).

[Just call me Peter Percival Patterson's pet pig Porky]

My father always said he only liked two kinds of pie: hot and cold.

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

OMG OMG OMG love for the obscure lyrics! (Were they original to the Monkees or did Peter rip them off from someone else?)

Strawberry/Rhubarb

[sexybass.livejournal.com]

I loved Soupy and am saddened by is passing. My favourite pie is strawberry/rhubardby the way

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side Tom, this makes YOU the most horrendous pun-slinger in Michigan!

And cherry, plain old-fashioned cherry.

[hvideo.livejournal.com]

Soupy was fun, but what was amazing was the number of absolutely top-of-the-line A-list stars that would participate. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and so on sharing a pie or two (dozen) with him.

For me, for dessert pies: pumpkin (with double spices), apple and cherry lead the way. All warm, ala mode.

For meals, chicken pot pie is great, as is a good pizza pie.

[kayshapero]

And for flinging, a good old Boston cream pie...

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Chocolate cream pie for me!! I can never resist it! And it's too good to throw, it must be eaten

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

I got hooked on marionberry since I moved to Oregon, but it's not a good throwing pie.

And, thanks to a bank not telling a client that they were putting a hold on the deposit he wrote his payment to me out of, I'm short of those funny pictures until Monday.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

"Did someone say 'pie'?"

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

For eating...pecan.

But for throwing...coconut cream. Pretty, especially if it has toasted coconut on top, delicious enough to lick it off, little likelihood of staining (unlike chocolate cream).

RIP Soupy.

[laurel-potter.livejournal.com]

That's really sad. He was one of my favorites, once upon a time, long ago.