pieitforward

We are completely supported by donations. We put out a tip jar at most of our events, and we have a paypal button on the blog. It helps that our overhead is low - we live in the truck camper and eat a lot of rice and tuna.

Weird ... plenty! It's always interesting talking to other people who are out on the street, raising awareness for their own causes. The Hare Krisha folks always seem really into what we're doing, but they get put off because we use cow butter in our pie crust.

Sure! Warren said "If you built a factory and got rich, that's great, but you had workers and road that other people built, and firefighters protecting your factory, so you have to pay back into the system that helped you."

I saw people arguing, saying that was communism, socialism, stealing from the rich, etc. I thought, maybe the metaphor is too complicated to understand. After all I've never owned a factory. I don't know anyone who's ever owned a factory.

But I understand pie. The maniFEAST is basically my version of the "Factory" speech. When I make a pie, it doesn't belong to me. It belongs to all the people who contributed, from the farmer to the truck driver, to any random person off the street who paid a tax on a movie ticket, because their taxes helped build the roads.

Like I said, it was just a facebook rant at first. But I really wanted to show people that I was willing to put action behind my words. What better way than to actually give away the pie that I claim belongs to everyone? And that's exactly what we've done.

Just thought of some things I could add.

Best thing about living on the road: Having a front row seat to the entire country, and meeting people.

Worst thing about living on the road: Having no host, sleeping in a Wal Mart parking lot, and eating a cold dinner of .67 cent/pack hot dogs, potato chips and cucumber slices.

Actually this is our first AMA.

Probably the special pie I make for Chris, my fiance. Whiskey-walnut-chocolate chip pie, in gluten free crust. It's not exactly my favorite pie, but it's a pie that takes a lot of effort and it tastes like love.