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A pie's-eye view of RAGBRAI

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Wed, 08/25/2004 - 3:33pm
Lauren Chapin, the KCStar's food critic, rode RAGBRAI this year with an eye on the pies:
Consuming mass quantities of pie while traversing the state from west to east has become as much a part of the annual summer bike tour as the bike repair shops, portable toilets and cornfields. According to survey results from the 2003 RAGBRAI, a slice of pie is the third most popular snack food — behind bananas and homemade ice cream.

Because food is fuel and fuel is essential to bike between 56 and 100 miles a day for seven days, I decided pie would be my diesel.
Read more on the KCStar web site.
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