If you want to vote for a friend, here is your chance

Hi,

I will tell you right now: I hate these competitions where you gather votes by pinning your social network against someone else's. It is flat out a popularity contest with the best not necessarily winning.

I am also one who fights for the underdog or where I think someone deserved a better outcome than what may happen.

MHays dreamed up a pie for submission to Saveur: Cranberry Clementine Cloud Pie. As we know, Michelle is a serious competitor and went to some pains to be unique.

I voted earlier in the month for her recipe, which you can only vote once, having heard about it on facebook. I thought it was long over, until I saw today was the last day to vote. The standings are here. Michelle has 99 votes and the highest vote getter is 402 votes.

Since this is a popularity contest rather than merit, which is really a shame. We may as well vote for our friend, at the very least to be supportive.

You do need to register to vote, which I already had. I don't get any e-mails from them I didn't request and nor have I been flooded with mysterious food related e-mails. I am fairly confident your spam won't go up by registering.

The opportunity to vote for Michelle as well as check out her recipe is here.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Regards,

Apparently no registration is required to vote, so why not?

Cathy2 wrote:The opportunity to vote for Michelle as well as check out her recipe is here.

Simple process: go to link above; vote; key in code words. Done. Best of luck, MHays\!

Done. And ditto. Best of luck, Michele!

I voted. Good wishes!

The current leader is a snoozer of a lemon meringue pie that doesn't even offer a pie crust recipe? Inexcusable!

Got my vote in. Good luck!

Voted, best of luck!

Looks like another great recipe from Michelle ... I've been fortunate to have tasted others in the past. Good luck Michelle - you deserve it.

Excellent old food buddies, we are at 181 votes! Keep it coming, since you can only vote once every vote is meaningful.

Regards,

I voted weeks ago. Can Chicago voting rules be invoked?

Looks beautiful & delicious! I voted, too.

I just voted from Los Muertos beach in Puerto Vallarta. If I can do it, so can you. Good luck Michele!

HI,

Update it is now at 269 votes. Another 80 will bring her to second place, though 150 will get her to first.

Regards,

nr706 wrote:I voted weeks ago. Can Chicago voting rules be invoked?

If you have more than one computer/smartphone, you can probably vote once from each of them.

Voted at work, will vote again at home.

Best of luck.

Hi,

In the last hour, a total of 377 votes to date have jumped Michelle's pie to second place. Easily within shooting distance of first place. Plus a nice voting cushion on top to secure it.

Regards,

HI,

Michelle is now in first place with 418 vote as opposed to 406.

Keep voting, because who knows what burst of voting energy her competitors may have up their sleeve!

Regards,

This is Chicago, we vote the dead.

When will we get to taste this pie? Holiday party?

I was looking through the rules here and saw this!

A panel of judges consisting of SAVEUR and Saveur.com editors will select the winning entry based equally upon the criteria of originality, relevance, clarity, and taste. There is no prize for the entry with the most reader votes.

WHAT?!

I guess that I must say, "Good for them." I dutifully voted for Michelle's pie, which I have never tasted. Selecting it over a set of other pies that I have never tasted. This becomes a pure popularity contest with nothing to do with culinary quality. While I have faith that Michelle's pie is delicious, faith is a tricky matter.

If some pie is to be awarded the best, it would be a nice gesture if someone were actually to taste all of the pies.

Still, we do love Michelle.

I voted for Michelle and asked all of my suitemates to vote as well! Good luck!

CrazyC wrote:I was looking through the rules here and saw this!

A panel of judges consisting of SAVEUR and Saveur.com editors will select the winning entry based equally upon the criteria of originality, relevance, clarity, and taste. There is no prize for the entry with the most reader votes.

WHAT?!

HI,

Actually I am rather relieved. It means we won't have some sudden death due to a surge of votes from somewhere on the internet. Presently there is a 60-vote void between the first place and Michelle at second place.

I think Michelle has a pretty good chance when it comes to originality and relevance. Clarity is in the eye of the beholder, I assume it is how the recipe is stated. While the recipe reads well, orange and cranberry is a classic combination.

This is not like county and state fair competitions where being an outlier might be risky. Here creativity is encouraged.

Thanks, Charlotte for reading those rules.

Still I encourage people to vote, because you never know what psychological edge our friend's entry may need.

Regards,

Nice to see there are actual judges.

But it was also nice to see, when I went to vote, that Michele's total was up to 537.

I voted four times.

Those chiming in about popularity contests might enjoy this WSJ article from July by Neil Strauss, "The Insidious Evils of 'Like' Culture." I'm in a class right now where activity on our class blog is part of our participation grade. I plan on invoking this article if I get dinged for points for not ever using the "like" button.

MHays' pie sounds great and I'm looking forward to trying out the recipe myself. She is currently leading.

(edited to add that the vote totals are changing in the blink of an eye....back in 2nd place...)

Come on...just 15 more votes puts Michelle ahead!

I've had her pie before, and it was fantastic, so I voted for this one too. It sounds delicious, but I'd like to see an interior photo.

My humblest of thanks to everyone; words can't express how I appreciate it.

Pie Lady, I don't have a terrific interior shot, we ate it too quickly, but here's the best I can do:


033 by michelehays, on Flickr

Mmmm...flaky...

Cathy2 wrote:Hi,
I thought it was long over, until I saw today was the last day to vote. The standings are here. Michelle has 99 votes and the highest vote getter is 402 votes.

Nope, I voted once yesterday and again today.

As of 5:14 this evening, Michelle was only behind by five votes; 646 to 651.

Exercise your Chicago right to vote more than once and put Michelle in the Pie House!

Buddy