I Would Totally Care
I woke up in the middle of the night and laid there for a while and worried about inflation. GOOD TIMES. I’m going to write an open letter entitled “15 Dozen Eggs Should Not Cost $48” but I don’t know where to send it, and likely wherever it ended up, no one would read it. (Side note - If I got a letter like that in the mail, I would totally read it AND I WOULD TOTALLY CARE.)
At any rate, for posterity, in year eight of entrepreneurship, I’m indignant about food prices. Let’s see what else we were doing at this point in PJP history:
2021: Jeanne and I debuted on Crime Scene Kitchen on the Fox Network. It’s still on Hulu if you would like to watch our national television antics. Season Two premiers this week. They will probably make a pie to start with, while we had to make cannoli.
2020: We hatched a plan for the second PJP. Hmmm…a good time of year to plan future stores, I supposed.
2019: Our air conditioning broke at PJP Buttonwood and it was 86 degrees in the store. And then we were featured on a PBS showed and they arrived to film some additional interviews, during which we were VERY sweaty and grouchy. Let us never see that footage.
2018: I arrived back at PJP after two weeks in Europe, my longest time away from PJP ever. PJP was fine without me.
2017: Jeanne was back at PJP for the first time after her stint in the ICU with a pulmonary embolism. And honestly, that whole experience was terrifying then…but almost even more so now when thinking about on how precarious it all was.
2016: Our website was hacked by porn. And just lower case porn, but P-O-R-N. You haven’t lived until you’ve screamed to a customer service agent that you “REALLY NEED THE PORN REMOVED ASAP”.
2015: We debuted our three inch pie tarts, stumbling upon what would eventually be one of our most popular ideas ever. Since 2015, we’ve sold THOUSANDS of tarts in every flavor you can imagine. We’ve mailed them, sold them in store, been a part of countless weddings, meetings, special events, and everything else. They are the cutest, really.
2014: And believe it or not, on this day in 2014, we debuted Jelly Jar pies. And since then we sold THOUSANDS of Jelly Jar pies and shipped them to all 50 states. But the more interesting thing is that we discovered Jelly Jar pies, tarts, and a plan for a second store on the same day in June. Huh. INTERESTING, INDEED.
