The View From A Broad: Thank God It's Pieday...

I promised Dani I’d make her a pumpkin pie…and I finally did it. I spent Thursday in Auntie Sunethras’ kitchen making pies under the watchful eyes of the maid/cook, Chandra. I had a ball with her, she kept sneaking up on me to see what the hell I was doing in HER kitchen. She probably weighs 75 pounds dripping wet and is the least threatening person you could ever meet. She insisted on washing up the bowls and dishes I was using. I just stood in front of the sink doing dishes and smiled at her and said things like, “Sure…wanna arm wrestle for it?” Then I taught her the ever popular “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Thermonuclear Device.” I may have neglected to fully explain how the Thermonuclear Device always wins…and she never figured it out so I kicked her butt.
The pies came out great and I brought them in to work on Friday…TGIP! Part of the fun was trying to figure out why all the Sinhalese speakers would giggle every single time “Pie” or “Pieday” was mentioned. Turns out “pie” is a slang term in Sinhalese which refers to a part of the male anatomy. Of course at this point, we pulled out all the stops and made every joke and pun we could think of. “Shut your pie hole…” “Pie envy…” “Pie in the sky..” just to name a few. Now just imagine all the adjectives you can use to describe pie and…well, you get the idea. It got especially funny later that night after several beers and a few pitchers of sangria. The pecan pie I made became “The pie with nuts…”