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I love those microwavable chicken pot pies that come in the paper pie pan. I mean...they aren't the most terrific chicken pot pies by a long shot, but in college when my dorm had one kitchen and I had a microwave in my room, it was pretty good for a random snack. Ah nostalgia.

I've heard Marie Callendar's generally tries very hard to get their frozen stuff to be close as possible to the stuff made in their restaurants. So I'm not surprised they beat out the other "classics" but perhaps a little surprised about the other pies (but not so much after your descriptions).

Buy outs? Like they do not feel they can live on the small profits and meager returns and sell out? Or children who have been to college and decided life off the farm is more personally and financially rewarding to them? The ones near cities where it is more profitable to sell the farm to make a subdivision of people who wonder where the farm went? That is lifestyle choice. Sorry, I know my family and friends as well. Former dairy and vegetable farmers who decided the long hard hours were no longer of interest, and rented the land to others to work or sold it to developers for massive profits unachievable in a lifetime of farming. Farming is not easy, it is long, hard, time consuming work, very few are willing to do it.

Most smart farmers incorporate the business side, yes the Family owns the land, but they use a corporate structure to protect themselves financially, the farm corporation owns the product hires the labor and the family owns the farm and rents it to the corporation. It removes their personal liability if a worker maims themselves on the job, or someone gets salmonella or listeria from a product they produce, the corporate assets are at risk, not the home and land.

Why not ignore the CAFO's we ignore Human cities which are far more destructive, far more polluting. Where are the organic farmers to use the hills of manure that are essential to replenishing the soil? The farmer who mixes cattle sheep pigs and poultry on one farm is the guy who is responsible for the hybrid influenzas like the current H1N1.

When we go all organic and eliminate the evil corporations, who will process the product that can't be sold fresh? Are you willing to be included in the third of the worlds population that is estimated to starve to death because of inadequate food supplies? Are you willing to work on a farm for meager pay for excessively long hours to fill your Utopian dream? Oh and then lets complain about the low paid farm workers, the suffering migrant laborers, the fact that you can't grow locally enough food to feed metropolitan New Your City's population. Where do you get your fruit and vegetables in winter in Fargo North Dakota in January? Hope you like beets and rutabaga, that's about all your options would be.

Grow up, their is a middle ground that is essential to feed an overpopulated world. You need corporate entities to preserve, can and process the seasonal crops that are essential to feed everyone. Yes, modern agriculture must be sustainable, but organic as it exists today can't fill every need, science, selective breeding of plants to improve yields and disease and pest resistance are essential, and only evil corporations have the resources to do this.

love the doodles! LOVE them! the pies, eh. but the doodles...! awesome.

I buy food at the local farmers market as well as the corporate supermarkets. When we have local farmers markets in every neighborhood in the country, and something other than a 7-11 as the market of choice in the poorer neighborhoods, then we will be doing the right thing in our country. Not everyone is smart about what they put in their mouth on a daily basis. But if we make choices that are good for not only ourselves but our planet, then perhaps our grandchildren will not be in the same mess we are in now.

Your local dairy farmer is most likely a corporation. Most family farms are held as corporations now. Why? inheritance taxes. The reason that many have gone under is the family can't afford to pay taxes on an inheritance based on a hundred acres of land and the thousands of dollars of infrastructure needed to run a "family farm". Even more so if you have a few hundred cattle grazing. Corporations are not evil, they are essential.

As for Harris Ranch's threat to drop contributions based on their feelings to Mr Pollan. He was a paid speaker. He was not donating time. Would you want your donations used to pay for speakers whose views are in opposition to your business interests or personal interests? I would do the same thing. It is amazing that you are offended a corporation would refuse to support paid speakers that portray them as evil. You call it censorship, but Mr. Pollan's supporters can replace the funds to the college if they view the message as important.

Most scientific studies show that fully a third of the world will starve with the current state of sustainable agriculture. There is a middle ground that must be reached to make everyone happy and healthy, panels can discuss and learn, individual rants only feed polarizing views.

I don't put ranch on anything! Gross tasting stuff.

I absolutely love ranch on my pizza. Granted, I am a middle-school student (though homeschooled), and got the idea from my (middle school, homeschooled) friends after we started dipping French-Fries in Ranch (that's justified in Mich--here most of the fries are way too greasy or way too dry). We decided to try it on our pizza--and it's great. Only Hidden Valley (tm) works though. Deep dish pizza doesn't need it, fortunately. A group fave for us is cayenne pepper, fresh black pepper, ranch, and tabasco sauce. I agree, if it's good pizza, it doesn't need condiments, but (1) pizza in metro-detroit isn't that good, and (2), it doesn't matter if it needs it--if ya want it, I say put it on unashamedly!

Some great names here - I love Egyptian Eyes especially! But wow: over 200 comments, and apparently no one else calls them "top hats". (And yes, I always thought my mother invented them, too. :) )

@Ed Levine - My mom called them "Egyptian eggs" as well. I think me, you and Embackus's friend were the only one. It seems to be the least known name for them.

lighthouses still love 'em

Bull's Eye!

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I like a lot of interesting flavor combinations but I'm pretty sure coffee and cheese isn't one of them.