# I had peach pie for dinner. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-peach-pie-for-dinner/364123 "2006-07-12T02:38:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-peach-pie-for-dinner/364123/1 "2006-07-12T02:38:39Z")
Yum! My parents and I went to a pick-your-own orchard today and bought peaches. Delicious peaches for $.90 a pound. Not cheap, but worth it! I also bought a jar of Damson plum preserves and a couple of pounds of fresh butter beans. I cooked up the butter beans with a ham bone and we had them for supper tonight – along with biscuits and the plum preserves. Mom made a pie and brought it over for dessert. She took the remains back home with her, but left me a slice for breakfast tomorrow morning. Tomorrow I’m going to make a pie, myself, for the freezer. And a peach cobbler, also for the freezer. Then I’ll keep the rest of the peaches for eating – once they start to turn, I’ll cut them up and put them in bags and freeze them. I prefer frozen peaches to canned. Peaches are my favorite fruit. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-peach-pie-for-dinner/364123/2 "2006-07-12T02:45:17Z")
I can’t remember for sure now, I think it was the Tom Bodett book about the one-armed cop that moved to Oregon and took over a peach farm… I read that book years ago, and promptly developed a wild urge for peaches. Not your garden variety grocery store peaches, but the big, juicy Harry & David ones that dribble yummy peach juice down your chin. Now, it’s a weakness with me. I just see something like this and I know, I just KNOW I’m headed to the farmer’s market tomorrow to see what’s there, peach-wise. Thanks a lot **Jess**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-peach-pie-for-dinner/364123/3 "2006-07-15T00:56:00Z")
Around here, the peaches are still green and rock-hard. OTOH, I’ve got two raspberry cobblers cooling on the kitchen counter right now. They’ll be at GettysDope tomorrow, until they’re eaten, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-peach-pie-for-dinner/364123/4 "2006-07-15T00:58:28Z")
That’s the great thing about being a grown-up, I’ve found. You can eat a pie for dinner if you want. No veggies for me, Ma! ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-peach-pie-for-dinner/364123/5 "2006-07-15T01:31:50Z")
For what it’s worth, I had pie the following morning for breakfast too. I _love_ pie for breakfast. I ended up making two fabulous looking cobblers for the freezer, using my grandmother’s recipe for the best fruit cobblers in the world. If I ever make it to another Dopefest maybe I’ll bring one. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-peach-pie-for-dinner/364123/6 "2006-07-15T01:50:16Z")
Damn you. Now I have that PotUSA song stuck in my head. I’ve never had peach pie. I’m not altogether sure I’d actually like it. I _love_ peaches though. Best when soft and ripe and juicy. I even like the sort you get in the jars with the syrup, but only if there are no good fresh peaches in the offing. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-peach-pie-for-dinner/364123/7 "2006-07-15T01:58:21Z")
The blueberries are ripe, here! I picked two big baskets of them last weekend, and then I made a batch of fabulous little tarts. Tonight is blackberry cobbler night, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-peach-pie-for-dinner/364123/8 "2006-07-15T11:55:35Z")
I had a peach cobbler once in my life. At Macy’s in Atlanta. They served it with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream and it was the best damned thing I’d ever tasted! I don’t want to ruin the experience by trying to recreate it myself. But the next best thing is Breyer’s peach ice cream. I buy it frequently. I also like peaches on my pancakes. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-peach-pie-for-dinner/364123/9 "2006-07-15T14:06:33Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > I can’t remember for sure now, I think it was the Tom Bodett book about the one-armed cop that moved to Oregon and took over a peach farm… > > I read that book years ago, and promptly developed a wild urge for peaches. That would be Tom Bodette’s _American Odyssey_. I listened to it this fall and spring in Audio Book form. But the guy with one arm, Ed Flannigan, wasn’t a cop. He’d been a heavy machinary operator before he lost his arm. Then he and his wife and their kids moved from Alaska to Oregon.