Hyper Gumbo

I don’t get my co-workers obsession with Tom Douglas’ Serious Pie. It strikes me, like a lot of what I call “Seattle’s nouveau riche cuisine” (all the Microsoft millionaires feel somehow obligated to upscale their food choices), as something more akin to a dare than a dining experience. I personally can’t stand the place. It’s not that the food is bad per-se, just so not my style that I feel like I’m wasting my life choking down something I’m not interested in eating, just to prove something? There’s not a single style of pie with pepperoni, only one with a sausage, and lots of expensive mushroom and veggie options, if you are into that sort of thing. The potato pie is the best one, but there’s never enough of that one to go around. Even when someone else is picking u the check, I just don’t feel like it’s worth my time to go with.