I notice that the final ingredient listed is "Fruit Flavor" and the list includes strawberry and other flavors that don't mesh particularly well with the bean and spice flavors of the typical bean pie. Has anyone run across a fruit-flavored bean pie? Sometimes in an ingredient statement there is a blanket ingredient list to cover all the things that
might find their way into a mass-produced product. However, this does not strike me as a likely explanation here.
As for sweet pickle pie, the recipe may not call for Love, but it certainly calls for Faith from those devout enough to give it a try. I think I'd have to get a pretty clear divine directive to order sweet pickle pie for dessert.
Man : I can't understand how a poet like you can eat that stuff.
T. S. Eliot: Ah, but you're not a poet.