July 30th, 2013
11:30 AM ET
It was a difficult choice: the apple pie or the New York-style cheesecake? Both sat in front of me, looking succulent on separate plates, on the counter at Liberty Pies & Cakes in Madrid. I pushed my coffee aside to study this opportunity. We were in the middle of filming a report about Burton Novack, an American expat in Madrid whom you might call an unusual entrepreneur. In the midst of Spain's economic crisis, he opened a shop two years ago to make and sell American-style pies and cakes. Unusual because he's an octogenarian. He looks pretty fit. He says he still plays tennis. He certainly still drives because I took a ride in his car from the shop to his office, where I met his large parrot. |
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Yes, from this one article I can see Pies as being the savoir of years of stupid government decisions. What fantasy world do you live in?
This reminds me of the following exchange in the Frogger episode on Seinfeld:
GEORGE: Just as she was. Hey, Mario! Remember us?
PIZZERIA OWNER: No.
JERRY: We used to come in every day.
PIZZERIA OWNER: So where ya been? We're tanking here.
GEORGE: We'll have 2 slices and 2 grape sodas.
PIZZERIA OWNER: Oh, thanks. That'll save us.
JERRY: All right, make it the large sodas.