So were the onion rings and the mud pie the waitress insisted we order.

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Tammy Smith of Vancouver, Wash. stops at Papa Murphy's Take N' Bake Pizza for a made-to-order, uncooked pie every other week.

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There's no reason they won't move in the same direction sports teams have in order to get a piece of that pie.

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The food of the London winter is the pie and here, they are homemade, to order, by a delightful young chef who has ransomed everything to make this work.

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Another risk is that a proliferation of measures could be a gift to interest groups, letting them pick numbers that amplify their misery in order to demand a bigger share of the national pie.

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