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Moonbats, shut your pie holes!
By Howie Carr | Thursday, August 16, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

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Some subjects that I write on I happen to know more about than others.

The Ever So Humble Pie Co. is one of those topics that I’m very familiar with. Probably too familiar.

Not its Whoopie pies, that’s not my thing. I’m a regular pie guy. Ever So Humble’s are for sale at, among other places, Volante Farms in Needham. Look for the pie with the heart-shaped hole in the middle of the pie crust, with the heart right off to the side. That’s Ever So Humble’s trademark.

Last weekend I bought a blueberry-raspberry pie. Regular sized. My sister-in-law was in town, and she always insists on having one. It was gone by Monday. Last night I went with the Summer Medley.

I always loved Ever So Humble pies, but now that I’ve spoken with the company’s owner, Andrea Taber, they’re going to taste even better. Because she refuses to take EBT cards for her products at the Braintree Farmers Market.

She doesn’t have a problem with welfare recipients using taxpayer cash for basic foods, but her pies are, as she pointed out in a letter to the farmers market, “a gourmet or luxury item.”

She’s right. The little Summer Medley pie I bought yesterday was about a third larger than your traditional old-style Table Talk pie. It cost $6.99. The standard-sized blueberry-raspberry last weekend — $16.99. That’s steep — fresh berries are expensive, you know — and can somebody seriously argue why taxpayers who have to buy their own pies at Market Basket for $7.99 should be subsidizing layabouts’ fine desserts?

Especially after the gimme girls and guys have just finished their Lobster Taxpayer Newburg, and by the way, isn’t it terribly unfair that the nonworking classes can’t buy cooked lobsters with an EBT card, only the uncooked ones?

I spoke to Andrea yesterday and she told me that since the story broke, she’s been deluged with emails, the vast majority of them positive, but some filled with what has become the traditional moonbat vitriol.

These are the same people who have bumper stickers on their Priuses that say “No Farms, No Food” or “Think Globally, Act Locally.”

Andrea Taber is a conservative, but she truly believes the words on those bumper stickers. She “recycled” an old building in Walpole for her bakery, and she buys from local farms. Her cranberries come from Sandwich, the rhubarb from Northbridge, the peaches from Stow.

Ever So Humble’s squash and pumpkins come from Brookline. I kid you not.

Maybe if the moonbats knew some of Ever So Humble’s ingredients came from the People’s Republic, they’d leave Andrea and her loyal customers alone.
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