Mollie scurried around her kitchen, cooking for the festival in her town. Food from the southern US is often prepared differently than food from anywhere else.
Mollie couldn’t decide between entering her stack cake or a cushaw pie in the competition. Her neighbor was going to enter cushaw pie, but Mollie’s pie was her specialty dish.
The day of the competition came and Mollie’s pie won the blue ribbon. Her neighbor was angry and threw Mollie’s pie to the ground screaming.
Mollie learned that real friendship is hard to find and should be cherished and nurtured.
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Note: Cushaw pie is not common outside the southern U.S. A cushaw is a gourd and the filling is used to make pie. Many think it is tastier than pumpkin pie.
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Thanks to Rochelle for hosting the #FridayFictioneers challenge.
The Write Scribe 
How petty her neighbour is. She made herself to look a fool.
Cushaw pie sounds delicious (coz I do not like pumpkin pie)
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Cushaw pie does not have the strong pumpkin pie flavor, but has a little of the pumpkin taste. Just milder. Tastes sort of exotic.
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Good! While I like pumpkin in certain things, I just have taken a liking to the pie.
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I’m not sure the neighbour was worthy of her friendship
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Ooooh, you’re making me hungry! Looks like someone was a sore loser…
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Oh no, what a bad loser. I’m sure Molly finds better friends. I first thought it was a typo and meant cashew pie, LOL.
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Fantastic. You have captured the serious competitive rivalry in local country competitions. I have know people to move the Winner rosette to their cake on display. The woman who always bought supermarket jam and entered it into the competition. Not the spirit of the game. All fun for the gossip classes.
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No one needs a friend like that.
My parents lived in the south for over 25 years, and I’ve never heard of cushaw pie. Maybe it wasn’t in the cushaw part of the South :)[
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A cushaw is a big, crook-neck green and white striped gourd!
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Egos will be the death of us all at worst, and deny us tasty pie at best.
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Oh dear. That old competitive spirit. It can lead to great things, but it can destroy too. Nicely told.
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Some people take things so seriously!
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Dear Rosemary,
It seems her (ex)friend took the contest way too seriously. Good story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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That’s how it is in southern small, rural towns, Rochelle!
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