I'm sure everyone has seen The Help by now and remembers the iconic pie scene. (Which, by the way, the book was so much better, as always.) For those that haven't, you don't know what you're missing. Seriously, it's on the Roku Channel right now, go and watch it if you haven't. Then come back and read this.
Anyway, now that everyone has seen The Help, we can all laugh together at how epic the pie scene is. I mean, come on, seriously, we've all dreamed of sweet revenge on someone at some time or other in our lives. We just never had the gumption... (gall, courage, audacity, grit, spunk, or nerve?)
Now, granted, the whole show (and book!) is awesome and well worth the repeated watch (and read!). Just when you think of the movie, you see it playing in your mind. Where Minny Jackson, played by Octavia Spencer, serves a gorgeous-looking homemade chocolate pie to Celia Foote, played by Jessica Chastain. While Celia enjoys the scrumptious pie, she degrades Minny between each bite. Minny just smiles a shit-eating smile. You really begin to wonder what she did to the pie when she wouldn't let Missus Walters, played by Sissy Spacek, have a slice of the pie.
Honestly, I immediately thought Ex-Lax or some laxative. I believe most normal people thought the same when they watched the show, also. Seriously, we may have told someone in our life to eat shit before, but we never thought about serving them a shit pie (let alone our own shit!!)
One has to wonder how much weed and wine the author, Kathryn Stockett, had while she wrote that scene. I can see it now: "I'll just have Minny tell Celia to eat my shit, but also, have Minny literally feed her shit to Celia!! Now that's some good shit there. That's going into the book, yep, and no way will the publisher get to edit it. If he asks me to, I'll just smile and tell him to eat shit..."
But you know what? That's now even what bothers me about her writing the shit pie into the book. Not by a long shot. There's so much more to it. Yes, there's so much more to it.
Simply put, I want to know how many pies has Minny made to perfect her shit pie recipe so that no one could detect it until she told them it was there? Seriously, did she make only the one for Celia from an old family recipe or has she made several over the years for other people that have upset her? I really have to know the answers to this.
I mean, come on, you can't tell me that Mexican vanilla covered up the smell and taste. I don't care who you are, there's no way it'd taste that good that Celia would have finished one piece! Especially if this was a trial-and-error pie that Minny had made for the first time.
So, who in Minny's past taught her to make this pie? Is it an old family recipe, passed down from mother to daughter? Was there someone that she made one for before? How many times has she felt the need to make it before? Has Celia eaten one before that and not known? So many unanswered questions arise from just this one scene.
In a show with such a wonderful message, I know it's an odd topic for a mind to snag on. Some of you are probably even laughing, saying, "Who cares?" Seriously, though, think about it. The author has missed out on a whole opportunity with a complete side story all set up and ready to roll. All she had to do was fill in the details of how Minny came across the knowledge and who she made a shit pie for before Celia's in The Help.
Just my opinion, and one of the odd things that cross my mind at night.
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Wooohooooo congratulations on your Leaderboard placement! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
I've only seen snippets of the film and no idea there was a a book, but you have me intrigued enough to look it up now!! Congrats MC on honourable mention on this week's leaderboard!!
I barely remember the film but have not read the book. I remember it being very popular though. You really got caught up on the questions arising from this scene haha , “ I don't care who you are, there's no way it'd taste that good that Celia would have finished one piece!” 😂 exactly! I thought it was going to be a film review. Hey Mother combs hope you are going well, watching some good films and perhaps a little baking?... 😊
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Haha, this made me laugh! You’re right, that pie scene is unforgettable. Thanks for sharing this fun, quirky take!
I completely forgot there was a book! Now I need to read it. I always wondered how did anyone even come up with the idea of this in the first place?!
I have always wondered about it! Doesn't seem like a smell or taste you could cover up...Ick!!
Definitely an odd thing to Cross your mind … yet it reminds me of things that crossed my mind, and we know probably others aren’t thinking of it. I’m not sure if I wanna say thanks for bringing this to my attention though.🤣🤣🤣
Tbh, I've never even heard of this movie 😅😅 But I watched the video you included. It was hilarious! Hahahahhahahahaha. And you ask a lot of good questions that make me wonder too. I think that maybe, the entire thing ain't her poop. Maybe she just added like one or two spoons of it? Lol, I don't know. I love revenge but I don't know if I'd go as far as making them eat my poop hahahahahaha
Haha! I hadn’t seen this film until a couple of years back! What a scene! What a pie…. Still makes me feel a little 🤢 Great piece!
Definitely a epic scene, too funny. They pick the best actresses for the part as well.
I like to believe this was an old family recipe, perfected back in the days of slavery and plantations, a win for the downtrodden who had to take their revenge subtly. I'm sure it was whispered to other cooks in all the big houses throughout the south. Shoofly Pie, now you know why they were buzzing around.
This is absolutely hilarious 😂😂 Minny’s baking abilities are just god tier, is what I chock it up to!
I'm soorry! I haven't seen The Help! I haven't even heard of it, I don't think... Lol, but it was interesting to hear about such an... interesting scene. In the middle of reading this, I was thinking "How the heck does Celia Foote not smell or taste anything?" Glad you covered it, though the idea of Minny constantly cooking her own excrement for practice is a weird one to picture. Lol, had me laughing and, er, thinking about possibilities, MC, haha! 😂
🤣 That’s a disturbing angle, M.C.! I haven’t laughed that hard in a while!
I never thought about it like that before! Yes, she must have had some practice!
Oh gosh. Of course I haven’t watched the movie, read the book, or anything. But I wouldn’t, really. Perhaps I’m not in the mood but that’s some unthinkable thing to bake. Think about you. Would you bake such thing? I wouldn’t. 🤮
This truly was a much better book than movie! Great questions!
Well then. Personally not a fan of the movie but haven’t read the book…Shit pie - karma in pastry 💜