Teachers -- do you want a pie?

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Anonymous wrote:LOL, I just got an email about this today from my kid’s MS PTA. Happy to contribute a pie and hope someone takes it.

Not sure why there are so many people on this thread trying to bring such negativity about something well-intentioned and sweet.

Some people are just looking for sh%t to be mad about or to complaint about. OP included.

I’m OP and I’m honestly not looking to stir sh-t. I’m a big supporter of both the teaching staff and the PTA. The snacks at teacher training day I get—I was just honestly curious about whether teachers like the pie thing or whether this one was kind of a waste. Seems like lots of people do like it! Our school is offering SSL hours for kids who bake them….based on responses I will not encourage my kid to do this.

I'm sorry but giving kids service hours for stupid things like this is getting out of hand. Babysitting at a PTA meeting, sure maybe, but baking a pie for a PTA teacher appreciation thing? That is not a service. COME ON.

O/T but SSL in the county is a complete joke and a lot of it is BS. I think they need to lower the hours but make it real community service.

I think the hours are a state requirement. As a HS parent, I see that there are so many students who don't have their hours! This project does have some community spirit associated!

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Some many lame reasons for giving SSL hours and this is one of them.

But, as a teacher, I definitely would not eat a pie made by most of my students. Talk about disgusting. Kids are so gross and dirty. They have no sense of cleanliness or hygiene.

Our school is offering 2 SSL hours to bake a pie, but my kid is not that efficient, so the ROI in SSL hours is not in their favor.

Do you know how easy it is to bake a pumpkin pie? My kids know how to do it. There’s a simple recipe on the Libby’s pumpkin can (2 recipes, in fact!). Pro tip: sprinkle cinnamon sugar on the pie crust before baking.

It takes 10 or 15 minutes to prepare.

And there’s no poisonous vegetable oil or evil pork lard involved ;0)

I’m curious what you people eat for dessert for thanksgiving?

Pie is easy (except the fruit chopping--i.e., for apple pie). It's the CRUST that is difficult. Time consuming. Finicky. (Full of shortening, by the way.). Most are probably buying a frozen crust, though. So that makes it both each and healthy (since no one really eats the crust when you make it that way!).

No kids are making pie crust from scratch wtf.

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Martha Stewart’s easy pie crust only has 5 ingredients and one is water…plus, nothing poisonous or offensive!

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon sugar

2 sticks chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces

1/4 to 1/2 cup ice water

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Anonymous wrote:Martha Stewart’s easy pie crust only has 5 ingredients and one is water…plus, nothing poisonous or offensive!

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon sugar

2 sticks chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces

1/4 to 1/2 cup ice water

Pie crust is my Achilles heel. Call me back when they have a cake raffle.

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Our school does the pie raffle and although I do not eat gluten, I bring the pie home to share with my family. Most of the pies given away at my school are store-bought, but some are homemade. The kids love hearing the staff member's names on the intercom and cheer when their favorites are announced, so it adds a bit of fun to the last day before Thanksgiving break!

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Anonymous wrote:Pies are made with pork lard that some teachers won’t eat. They often contain poisons like soy or vegetable oils also. Please don’t.

Vegetable oil is a poison?

Absolutely. It’s tremendously unhealthy as an industrial seed oil.

Millions eat it every year, even my Grandma. We just picked up an apple, pumpkin and pecan pie at Costco to donate to school. She’s 100 years young! It’s not poisonous.

Moderation people ……. moderation!

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Anonymous wrote:BCC High School does this, or at least they used to, when my kids were there. I brought a few store-bought pies in, with some skepticism, but I saw the teachers and staff lining up and checking out all the offerings,and they seemed pretty enthusiastic. It’s just a fun, festive little thing, not that deep. From what I understand, all the pies get claimed.

I wouldn’t go to the trouble to make a pie, because I think a lot of people are uncomfortable eating homemade food when they have no idea who it came from. Store-bought pies are cheap and seem to be perfectly welcome.

This. Our ES does this and no pie is wasted.

Not sure why some people on here are so miserable that they need to be so rude about an idea that is obviously well-intentioned.

Participate or don’t, but back off with the meanness.

Who elected you board monitor? Oh, right. Nobody.

DCUM may be a toxic cesspool, but it's our toxic cesspool!

I think I love you.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people will eat a store bought pie. Only a few will eat a homemade one if they know who made it. Many homemade goodies go in the trash when teachers get home.

Signed,
A Teacher 🍎

This is very, very common. Remember it when you’re tempted to make homemade food/dessert.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people will eat a store bought pie. Only a few will eat a homemade one if they know who made it. Many homemade goodies go in the trash when teachers get home.

Signed,
A Teacher 🍎

That’s crazy.

Thoughtless, wasteful, crazy.

Homemade is better than store bought. Only a fancy bakery tops homemade.

If you are too paranoid to eat homemade baked goods you need therapy. Truly.

You’re in the minority. Truly,

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Anonymous wrote:This area is so weird. If you have some special dietary restriction or phobia of the cooking of others, don’t take a pie. Let everyone else enjoy the fun tradition. Why do you feel no one should have pie just because you decided to be a vegan? Side note: the Costco apple pie is vegan and has been for years.

All these kitchen-phobic people ruined our multi cultural night, too. It was so nice to have a pot luck thoughtfully made up from all different countries and heritages. Last year they just got some random catered food from like Moby Dick because “people are still worried about covid.” You don’t get covid from food, folks.

+1 million

This area is full of anti-social people with high levels of anxiety. This thread highlights that.

If eating food makes you anxious, then just opt out. Why the need to ruin it for others?

They don’t need to “opt out.” They just won’t eat anything homemade. There are always store bought pies.

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Anonymous wrote:Pies are made with pork lard that some teachers won’t eat. They often contain poisons like soy or vegetable oils also. Please don’t.

LOL. You sound crazy. What do you actually eat?

Regardless, if you don’t like pie, don’t eat it. Plenty of us DO like pie and will happily eat it.

What is wrong with you? Are you a teacher or a parent? Either way you need to take the equity training we all are required to take to understand cultural dietary restrictions and allergies.

Certain religions do not eat any pork products. Some vegetarians and vegans do not eat pie due to lard being the crust.

I really hope you were being sarcastic.

Then those people should not eat pies. That doesn’t mean we have to quit offering pies to everyone.

Everyone has dietary preferences. Can’t cater to everyone.

I don’t eat cilantro. If someone makes a cilantro pie, I won’t eat it. But I don’t expect people to never make them. That would be unreasonable.

Again, you sound crazy.

Ew, yuck! The world is definitely a better place if no one invents a cilantro pie!

Soap pie.

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Anonymous wrote:They ARE actually popular with many/most teachers, and while I agree with you that some people love some flavors and dislike others, it all shakes out fine. Even if someone is diabetic or hates pumpkin pie, maybe they have a family member or neighbor who would like some pie. People in all workplaces are enthusiastic about free food, giveaways, holiday things, etc. It’s fun and festive. Why must people try to suck the joy out of everything?

I hate to break it to you, but we will always show appreciation for anything you do for us even if we don't actually appreciate it.

This is the truth, but the Defensive Home Pie People will never accept it.

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Anonymous wrote:We had pie day at most schools I worked at and the pie was usually from Giant or a grocery chain. I'm not a big pie person anyways so I wouldn't take one. But there are definitely teachers who do like the tradition.

Gross.

Homemade pie > gift card >> Giant pie.

No. Gift card> store/bakery pie > homemade pie to garbage can after thanking the giver profusely and saying how tasty it looked

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Anonymous wrote:Our PTA is trying to give a pie to each teacher at the school. I'm happy to make a pie for someone that actually wants it, but I am finding it a little hard to believe that all the teachers actually want a pie. IME, there are a lot of people that don't like pie, a bunch of people that prefer their own home-made pie, and some people who just won't eat anything cooked in other people's kitchens. I wish the PTA had, instead of guaranteeing a pie for each teacher, just asked teachers to sign up if they affirmatively wanted a pie (and saying what kind of pie they want -- some people hate pumpkin, others hate pecan, some hate apple, most hate mince...).
I usually love our PTA, so trying not to criticize, but just really curious if these initiatives are actually popular with the teachers.

OP, you very clearly started this thread with an anti-pie bias. You knew you didn’t want to bake or buy a pie and were simply looking for validation of your position.

Own it. You had no intention of baking a pie or buying a pie and you think the whole idea is stupid.

That’s fine. Nobody is forcing you to participate. Just scroll on past that particular Sign Up Genius and wait for the next one to see if it suits you better.

Wow. Get a hobby.

-not OP

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Anonymous wrote:Pies are made with pork lard that some teachers won’t eat. They often contain poisons like soy or vegetable oils also. Please don’t.

Vegetable oil is a poison?

Absolutely. It’s tremendously unhealthy as an industrial seed oil.

Millions eat it every year, even my Grandma. We just picked up an apple, pumpkin and pecan pie at Costco to donate to school. She’s 100 years young! It’s not poisonous.

Moderation people ……. moderation!

Try that arsenic in moderation? Bad things are just not healthy—even in moderation. Our population has so much inflammatory disease