As everyone knows I recently ran for the legislature. Unfortunately, or perhaps maybe not, I lost. One of the main reasons I wanted to get elected was to introduce new legislation in North Dakota that would require certain pies to be served with ice cream. Apple pie, and June berry pie should never be put on a plate without the proper covering of ice cream. Since I lost the election pies will not have the protection they deserve from the heat that emanates after they have come from the oven.
Yesterday pies were sprouting up everywhere in our kitchen. By the time the mixer blades stopped turning there were five pies. When we got to Bodines with five pies, which included pecan, June berry, and apple, our entourage was also carrying three containers of ice cream. Needless to say we practice what we preach.
A June berry pie is the best pie normally made in common practice. Megan, treasures a June berry pie as much as I do. June berries are found only in certain parts of the Midwest and Canada. In a simple pie contest a June berry pie will always prevail. June berries were used by the Indians as currency, just as gold dust was used by the white man. One berry was worth about a dollar of white man currency, so you can see the true value of a typical June berry pie. One pie can hold as many as two thousand berries. Do the math, that comes out to an expensive pie. If you taste one you will understand why the berry has such value. In North Dakota peace was made with the Mandan Indians by serving them pie with ice cream. The Indians knew nothing about ice cream, so the settlers told them it was magic snow. Of course the Indians bought the story and sold the settlers North Dakota for several pies with ice cream and a promise of farm subsidies forever.
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