Social interaction has often been associated with being critical to mental and physical health. Consequently, one of my favorite place would be somewhere with a concentrated number of people, where you can be in and out of a conversation anytime you want. An environment I wouldn’t ever mind being in would be in a café, where it’s quiet, yet lively, where everyone’s minding their own business, yet also having some sort of discussions through some device. Cafés are also where people grab coffee together to catch up with each other.
The Pie Hole is a meeting place in the American television series Pushing Daisies. Specifically, it is a café owned by Ned, a pie-maker with a magic finger which brings a dead person back to life, but if he touches that same person again, they die forever. If Ned brings the dead back to life for longer than 1 minute, a random person within vicinity will have to die in exchange for his/her life.
The Pie Hole is where Ned and his detective friend meet to solve murder mysteries with the help of Ned’s finger. This restaurant is more of a place, rather than a space. A place holds a special meaning in someone’s heart, while a space is abstract and doesn’t mean much to them. The Pie Hole itself acts as a safe haven, where every meeting and secret is meant to be kept inside the Pie Hole and can not be discussed outside. Every person Ned has bought back to life (where he sacrificed another’s life) has been hidden away for the most part within the Pie Hole. For a lot of his customers, the Pie Hole reminds them of home, with bright colorful decorations and it always smells of homemade pies. As the show puts it, “Pie is home. People always come home.”
