We have so many questions about the Worst Tweet of Thanksgiving 2016: #GlockPie

Why?
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Patrick Kulp
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1. Why?

2. Are you expecting relatives to stage an armed insurrection?

3. Is the idea here that the pie is staging an insurrection?


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4. Why is it outside?

5. Why is it on the ground?

6. Why is the gun just smooshed into the pie like that? You took the time to procure a pie, but couldn't get a gun-shaped pie mold off Amazon or something?

7. Who made that pie crust? That pie crust looks absolutely bush league.

8. Is a good pie with a gun the only way to stop a bad pie?

9. Who at the Glock corporation comprehended and approved of this and what state of mind were they in? Related: Who gets a job in social media at Glock?

10. Is the Glock corporation endorsing its products being used in baking, here?

11. What sort of statement, if any, is this pie trying to make? What does the Glock corporation imagine it says about its brand?

12. Can the Glock corporation please, please, please run a marketing seminar built solely around explaining this tweet?

13. Is it really a surprise that we live in a country where this isn't the first time someone has put a gun in a pumpkin pie?

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14. Is this another sign that coastal elites are living in a bubble?

15. Is there a worse possible way to dispose of evidence?

16A. Is that pie still edible?

16B. Did someone eat it?

17. Has any research been done into gun powder's effect on diet?

18. Will this dish end—or escalate— dinner-time political feuds?

19. Do guns kill people or do pies poisoned by guns kill people?

20. Where does this fall in terms of concealed carry laws?

21. What about congealed carry laws?

22. Again, and no, really: Why?

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Patrick Kulp

Patrick Kulp is a Business Reporter at Mashable. Patrick covers digital advertising, online retail and the future of work. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in political science and economics, he previously worked at the Pacific Coast Business Times.

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