Arizona republican., 1910-07-31
THE uNLABELlED PIE.
Psychological Researches of Cricksbee
 at Go as You Please Lunch.

MT. friend Cricksbee." said MT Griplington, declares that if he was blindfolded he would know what he was eating He thinks the senses Of sight and taste are very closely allied: or at least that operation of the sense of taste depends largely on wheth-f or not we see what we are eating. He says that if he were to take me into. his kitchen and try me I couldn't tell, in the dark whether he was feeding me sugar or salt
 Here I think he exaggerates. but on doubt there is something in the idea that our sense of taste is in some measure governed by our sense or sight It is familiar fact that mo- body likes to smoke where he can't see his pipe or cigar; it's no fun to smoke in the dark. Cricksbee tells me that blind men never smoke because they can't taste the tobacco
 Here's a curious thing. going to show that you can't always tell what you are eating. even though you may have it in plain sight. Cricksbee eats in one of those places where you go along and help yourself to what you want off a counter and eat it, and then pay the cashier: and he said. incl dentalIy, that today there he had for luncheon a piece of pie; and when l asked him what sort of pie it was he said he didn't know.
 You don't know l says to him. Couldn't you see what you were eat ing
 And he said he could see, all right, but that this piece of pie he took was mt labelled; and then he went on to explain.
 Tn this place they label the pies so that you may knowewhat you are get ting. They have little wire contriv- ances with prongs at one end and a | holder at the other and they set the prongs in a pie and put in the top end card with the name of the pie print ed on it, huckleberry, raspberry. blackberry, gooseberry, blueberry, strawberry, apple. peach. mince, pumpkin, custard, pineapple, whatever the rAe may be; and you walk along the line and read the signs and pick out the kind you want.
 "On this particular pie, as it hap pened, there was no sign whatever. but | Cricksbee liked the looks of i; and So | he took a piece and he found it very good, but he couldn't for the life oi him tell what sort of pie it was.
 You cant always tell" he went on even when they're labelled. Some times, "even when they get out of one sort of pie they shift that label to 8 pie something like it, though really of another sort: they want to make | their assortment look complete anc you might eat the mislabelled pie anC not know the difference and then tho pieman may get out of some kinds o
 stock and run in under those name:
 pies of another sort. and these would
 be mislabelled innocently.
 CT never go by the labels anyway
 find pie of a kind l like and ther
 I remember it by it's looks; and that'
 the sort of pie I eat whether l know
 what it is or not
 "Of course I knew that the reflec
 tions he cast on the restaurant keepe and the pie manufacturer were who'll,
 and absolutely unjust, and hay
 shown you that he is prone to eXag
 geration. and I think you might sa,
 Cricksbee himself. as shown by wha
 he says about pie. is more or less defi , cient in the sense of taste."-New Tor Sun.