Sarah Marshall

And if it's not cheap, it goes on sale.

Yep.

You know, because you can still buy a box cake mix for a dollar and you don't have to add in the egg.

Right, exactly.

And it won't go bad.

Yeah, and also to get back to desperation pies, I think the general definition is that they don't have fruit in them.

They're made with shelf staple items, usually without dairy or eggs either.

Or you might have one of those things to make up for a lack of fruit or ingredients generally.

So you also have the sugar cream pie.

Like something tart.

Yeah.

Or the vinegar pie, which is like using vinegar as a substitute for the kind of tart fruit flavoring and fruit pies are like, for example, maybe a rhubarb pie.

And I think it's like humbling how well these things work and how easy it is to like not fully trick our taste buds.

But like a lot of these really like dirt cheap foods often hit the spot in a profoundly great way.

Yeah.

Yeah, because food is always going to be a status symbol in as many ways as it can be.

Because you know what's interesting about food, too, is that innovation will unceasingly happen because everyone has to keep eating something multiple times per day.

And also, it's going to take on more symbolic freight than it can possibly carry because, again, everyone has to relate to it every day of their lives, whether they have it or not.

Yeah.

If you have it, you're thinking about it.