A couple weeks ago, I had a dream about Friendly’s restaurant. There used to be one (maybe it’s still there …) in a shopping mall my mom and I used to visit at the holidays: driving for miles in a circle to find parking; wall-to-wall people, being beat up by passing shopping bags. Getting lunch at Friendly’s was the highlight of the day. I can’t remember ever having a bad meal there. And the ice cream was divine. It was a piece of nostalgia to go to the actual not-in-the-mall restaurant with my mom a couple years back.
My dream was a Friendly’s holiday television commercial.They were advertising pre-order for full-sized bean pies for Thanksgiving. At first, I couldn’t figure out what was so wrong with the commercial, but then it dawned on me: the pies had top crust. Lattice, full, artistic, different pies danced across the screen of my mind.And then I woke up because no self-respecting bean pie has a lid.
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4 responses to “2 November: Holiday Dreams”
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It looks like a wonderful place. I have never heard of them before. I have also never heard of bean pie.
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It is often sold in Black Muslim communities; I used to drive up North Broad in Philadelphia, just to get pies. In fact, several years ago, I went into Philly to do some research at my alma mater’s library and on the way back, parked in the road median strip to buy I think it was five or six individual sized pies. I froze them in my mom’s freezer for the trip back to SoCal. I can make them too, but it’s not the same. If you like pumpkin or sweet potato, it is reminiscent of those flavors. You must have some!
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They had lids? What were your dreams thinking? Had they been drinking? 😉 That is a tough one, while a pie lid on something like that would possibly put me off, I am conflicted because it is still pie (even if it is an abomination) and therefore needs to be nommed with extreme haste! 🙂 I think some of my fondest memories are of eating in places, fine dining creates such evocative memories, especially if there is both pie and ice cream involved 🙂
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Ha! My dreams certainly have a mind of their own 0.o
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