JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for October 14, 2017

I think it had to do with the type of pumpkin used.

Good. Their plot was worth the cost of eating her wretched pie. Now she’ll let grandma’s pie back on the menu.

The last panel is just sad

My guess is grandma told them to praise her pie so she’d lift the ban.

My family is from New Jersey. Southern Jersey. A half hour from Philly. When they’d shop that’s were they’d go. I an army brat, so even though that’s where I was born, I wasn’t raised there. However my mother who was raised there never made a sweet potato pie. In fact I never saw one until a friend’s mom made one. That was in Oklahoma. Having lived in North Carolina the last 25 years I have figured out it is a southern thing, much like pecan pie. What I want to know: where is Dot from and why are northerners not eating pumpkin pie like all the other ones I know do?

BTW I do love sweet potatoes, it just seemed off for a character from the region to be making a sweet potato PIE as opposed to a sweet potato casserole with warm pecans and marshmallows & peaches…yummm…now I’m hungry. :)

I can’t suspend my disbelief on this one. No such thing as good pumpkin pie.

Love pumpkin pie (my own, picky on spices in it, usually not enough in others for me) Have never had sweet potato pie, nor known anyone who made it, have lived in the south for 40 years – never knew anyone who made it when I lived up north – we had glazed sweet potatoes at the holidays and I still make them, all what you are use to