For Andrew
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 5:58 pm
THIS PUN HAS NEITHER HISTORICAL NOR CULINARY SIGNIFICANCE!
William Penn had two aunts whose pies were legendary. Penn set them up with a bakery shop. But they were failures as businesswomen. They changed their prices regularly, trying to find one their customers would accept. Penn thought it would be wise to advertise their rates.
So he contacted his friend Benjamin Franklin and asked him to publish the rates in his periodical, "The Saturday Evening Post." Ben devoted a weekly column to advertising the rates. He called it, "The Pie Rates of Penn's Aunts."
William Penn had two aunts whose pies were legendary. Penn set them up with a bakery shop. But they were failures as businesswomen. They changed their prices regularly, trying to find one their customers would accept. Penn thought it would be wise to advertise their rates.
So he contacted his friend Benjamin Franklin and asked him to publish the rates in his periodical, "The Saturday Evening Post." Ben devoted a weekly column to advertising the rates. He called it, "The Pie Rates of Penn's Aunts."
