You never knew what would come out of a Freighoffer's animal bag. Sometimes it was just various kinds of bread; rye,white, wheat and even party rye which was little tiny pieces of rye bread. Sometimes there were cakes and danish or cookies which were often broken and squooshed from being thrown into the bag. But the most unique item of all was the lemon meringue pie. Sometimes it was a bit broken too, but if we could manage to get it out of the bag in one piece, we would have a feast. The crust was actually quite soggy from being "day old" and the meringue had lots of little beads on it, like the meringue was sweating. The lemon filling had a special buzz to it which added to the zesty flavor of the meringue. We dug into the pie like it was a meal fit for a king.
At the farm's peak, we would get bakery animal bags every few weeks and fill up the back of my fathers truck with them, 10 or 15 bags.The contents of the bag were either put into our freezer or fed to the various goats, sheep, chickens and ducks that were on the farm.
Much later on, I discovered that lemon meringue pie wasn't supposed to have those special flavors. Maybe we were getting buzzed off the pie, I'm not sure, or maybe it was a sugar high, but I'm certain that all of us kids have that memory of the fizzy lemon meringue pies.
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