Posted on 12/14/2017 6:43:49 PM PST by Kaslin
it turns out the cake pie isn't a lie after all.
After being accused of using a stock photo of a pecan pie by journalist April Ryan (in what was dubbed "piegate" and likely resulted in Ryan not being invited to the White House Christmas party), Sanders proved once and for all that yes, she can actually bake. Pretty well, as it turns out.
In case you missed it, here was the original exchange, where Ryan insisted that the pie Sanders tweeted was not made by her.
Show it to us on a table. https://t.co/ifeSBlSZW7— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) November 24, 2017
Golly.
In the spirit of Christmas, and for a White House Christmas potluck party, Sanders baked four pies for members of the press. In a thread of tweets, Sanders posted images of the process of baking the pies, being sure to tag Ryan in the tweets.
It’s pie time! With or without bourbon @AprilDRyan? #piegate pic.twitter.com/2xw58FDFg6— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 14, 2017
Thanks to @VP Chief of Staff @Nick_Ayers for supplying the pecans from his family farm in Georgia #piegate pic.twitter.com/Lx7LpMwF4V— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 14, 2017
Ingredients all mixed up and pies in the oven! @AprilDRyan let me know if you need further documentation #piegate pic.twitter.com/OVYLg1gBgO— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 14, 2017
Excited to share these at tomorrow’s press potluck. Merry Christmas to the WH press corps! pic.twitter.com/PKqfHk3nXJ— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 14, 2017
But there's a happy ending: Ryan received one of the pies, and "Piegate" is now, finally, over.
At White House Christmas basement party, @PressSec and @AprilDRyan declare festive end to #piegate. pic.twitter.com/rkDCqUo4n6— Fred Lucas (@FredLucasWH) December 14, 2017
It was a wonderful reset gesture from the @PressSec to bake 4 pretty pies for us. We are building for better on all sides. Watch the video! https://t.co/FEQtsjdHGl— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) December 14, 2017
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Should have baked her a crow pie.
We will not overcome evil by doing more evil.
We will overcome evil by doing good.
The Amelia Bedillia books were very useful to learn English idioms and peculiar turns of phrase ( draw drapes, turn on lights, etc).
There are so many, and there is no internal logic that a non native speaker like me just had to memorize them.
Silly books helped!
It was when reading (and explaining)Amelia Bedelia to my very young children that I had a glimpse of how challenging learning English can be. Taken literally, weeding the garden, dusting the furniture, sweeping it under the rug, etc. would all mean the opposite of what they actually mean.
I’m impressed with those who are able to master it!
what I enjoyed most about piegate, is the fact this was sooooo un-feminist for a lefty reporter to call another woman out on whether she actually baked her own pies.
“Meringue” is yet another example of the absolute insanity that is the English language.
Seriously, look at the word!
Hah! Meringue rhymes with harangue ...
Two thoughts for you:
1) The English language is something of an IQ test: only the best and brightest ever really master it. I observe that a great many of my fellow Americans never manage to do so.
2) There is no such thing as the “English Language”. It is a pleasant fiction, a figment of the imagination. You say that “English” is the native language of England, Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand, India? I laugh. There is serious variation even within those countries, much more amongst them.
3) The language isn’t even “English”. Most of the words have no connection to either the Angles or the Saxons.
An area restaurant serves lemon pecan pie. Yum! But, then, that’s not what you meant, was it? ;)
Soupy Sales!
She IS the best, isn’t she? And she makes her pie crust just like I do! D
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Sure you could. They’re ridiculously easy to make.
I know exactly what you’re referring to. But I learned it from “K”, on “Men In Black”.
Don’t tell anyone I told you, but if you use the refrigerated pie dough, you can use the fork to do the edges, just like the real thing.
“like ‘The Help’?”
Gross. (That was a stupid movie.)
Lol, thanks for the tip!
I can’t say anything.
My native language (Hebrew) doesn’t have proper vowels (when written). You just kind of have to know from context.
I think I write English reasonably well, but when I speak, I still sound distinctly foreign.
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