For Students at Top Chicago Area Law Schools, It's All About the Pie

It's almost Thanksgiving, an entire American holiday centered around gluttony and based upon the kindness of people we later tried to exterminate. And football. And pie. Lots of pie. Now, normally pie is an unqualified good (unless you are on a diet, which I never am). It's hard to see how this all-American treat could be overcomplicated. But leave it to a group of law students to ruin pie....

onNovember 22, 2011 at 10:59 AMNovember 23, 2011 at 9:41 AM

To be fair, Pie King was actually disqualified from the competition by the judges, after strong disapproval of his actions by the crowd.

I was then told by one of the judges that we had to do this “tie-breaker” even though she thought Pie King had cheated. I hadn’t seen anything from where I was sitting, at the other end of the table, but given what I heard from the judge, the crowd, and my friends who were watching the whole thing, I was under the impression that Pie King had cheated, and that’s not a way to play this game. I felt that I had thus already won, and didn’t need to eat another piece of pie just because of this guy’s nonsense. I was kind of sick of eating pie at this point. So I called him a cheater and smushed my pie into his cheek, was handed the trophy by the judge, and walked off.

Epilogue: Pie King was upset afterwards, so I handed him the trophy. I don’t need a piece of plastic to let me know how I’m doing — I ate a crapload of pie in under 5 minutes.