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[SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>]

I grew up in a west central Indiana OOGB community, and we always had 
pie for breakfast.  In fact, in the specific area where I grew up we 
often finished breakfast with stack pie:  sugar cream on the bottom, 
slide on a cottage cheese or 'sour-cheese' pie, and top it with a fruit 
pie of some sort.  Slice down through the whole stack, and each guy gets 
a 'stack piece'.

When I lived in coastal Virginia for 20 years, I think the only folks 
who didn't think pie for breakfast was weird were those who grew up 
somewhere else.  I merrily warped my kids' brains with pie anyway.  
Really didn't see much pie there anyway, could go to many carry-ins with 
nary a pie....although when I lived in the VA mountains they made pie 
there---only the Mennonites made a habit of eating it for breakfast 
though, that I saw.

Here, in Maine, I find pie often eaten for breakfast among us ol' 
timer-types, but the young folks and come-heres shudder at the thought 
as they jump in their cars with a cup of sweetened coffee to start the 
day....

I just rendered about 50 pounds of fat off the neighbor's pig, 
specifically for the lard, mostly for pie crusts.  Yeah, I know, I'm 
gonna die early....but happy. 

Susan Jane, in Maine in the rain