The contestants all lined up, waiting to register for the
most prestigious pie eating contest. The
contest always drew such a large crowd and number of participants due to its
large prize. Whoever ate the most pies
in four minutes would be awarded a brand new Corvette.
Registration ended and the contestants were patiently
awaiting their pies to begin the contest.
The pies were brought out one by one, each pie having a different and
unique flavor.
What the contestants didn’t know ahead of time was that the
pies were not the normal pies they thought they would be. In previous years, there were the standard
apple pies, banana cream, key lime, blackberry, chocolate mousse, and
peach. This year, the tables were turned
and the pies weren’t their normal household favorites.
The announcer stepped up in front of the crowd and shouted, “Welcome,
welcome to the pie eating contest! This
year, we’ve done something different with the pies and we think you’ll be
surprised,” he said.
“Prepare yourselves
audience and contestants. Under your seats
you will find a description of all of the pies this year.”
As the crowd reached
under their seats, the look on their faces was pure disgust.
The paper read:
This year, we will be
replacing all tasty pies with ones less appealing. Continue reading for a full list of this year’s
pies.
Instead of apple pie,
we are serving a delicious siracha pie – spicier than you could imagine
For the banana cream
pie, we are having a mayonnaise and whipped cream pie
Key lime will be
turned into a cactus puree pie
Blackberry pie has
transformed into a hearty eggplant pie
Our traditional
chocolate mousse will instead be a pepper blend pie – with jalapenos, bell
peppers, and most importantly, ghost peppers
And just because we
don’t want to be too mean, peach pie will remain the same.
Thank you for your
participation and support of this year’s contest.
It was time. The
contestants were to begin eating the new pie creations. Once the whistle blew, the contestants were
off to a hesitant start. One brave participant
stuck his fork right into the siracha pie, took a bite, and threw up
immediately. Several others tried but
had the same experiences. No one could
keep it down. For the next four minutes,
no one touched any of the other pies until the competition was officially
over.
Since technically no one ate any of the pies, the grand
prize belonged to no one. There the
Corvette sat, in perfect view of all the contestants, without a new owner.
While the contestants were upset about their defeat, they
all agreed that the new car wasn’t worth it.
Why they decided that it wasn’t worth it, no one knows. I mean, come on, it’s a new Corvette. Suck it up.
Eat some siracha pie.
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Author’s Note: This story was based off of Mole Wins theRace with Coyote and the Other Animals in the Apache Unit. In the original story, animals were competing
in a race in order to marry a woman if they got to the finish line first. In the end, the mole ended up marrying the
woman while the other competitors had no idea and continued running towards the
finish line. I chose this story to
retell because I liked the idea of a race or competition of some sort that had
a big prize. I changed the foot race
into a pie eating contest because I thought it was more fun and changed the
normal pies to gross ones because it’s not something I have ever heard of
before and thought it would be interesting and different.
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