Muffins: The Solution (and Cause) to All of Life's Problems

by Tape Deck

The Next Day (written by The Storyteller). (Canon?)

The next day...

>knock knock<

Grumbling, Carrot Top stumbled out of bed and staggered to her front door. Shen opened it to find a smiling pegasus looking up at her. "Derpy? It's five in the morning...what are you doing here?"

Derpy's grin grew even broader as she held a plate of muffins out to her. "I just couldn't wait another minute to try one of your carrot cake muffins, so I brought you these to trade!"

Carrot Top stared at the muffins, then gazed at her with a flat expression. "These all have bites taken out of them..."

Derpy's face flushed. "Heh heh...like I said, I couldn't wait!"

"..."

"..."

"So! Can I have one?!"

The door slammed as Carrot Top went back to bed.

Author's Note:

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His stories are great.

Comments

[TotalOverflow]

11901908
Love this ending idea, great way to bring it full circle.

11901949
No worries! More than happy to offer feedback and ideas. It's exciting to see more people pick up the parchment and quill.
P.P.S. Now that you mention it, I guess my first story Opposites is a Rarity focused one, with Derpy as a secondary character.

[Destiny Chaser]

Funny.

[RainbowDash2012]

I like to prank call people in Turkmenistan and Chad and all the obscure countries lel

[Tape Deck]

11906866
Y'know, plenty of people would be annoyed, but I approve of this. Especially since I'm fond of geography myself. And thanks for the like, I assume?

[RainbowDash2012]

11906875
Yep I gave you a like. Isn’t it amazing how few people know anything about geography though? Yeah I’m a geography enthusiast lol.

[Tape Deck]

11906884
And how the heck did I already get another like, because you were eleven, and now I'm at twelve. That's crazy.

I've spent many an hour just looking at Google Maps.

[RainbowDash2012]

11906890
How weird! And so do I! I use google maps on my iPhone every day to look at random shit around the world lol. Like I said, sometimes I actually call random hotels and businesses in other countries around the world and have conversations with random people so I can understand their country’s culture better lmao.

[Tape Deck]

11906892
Nice. Well, it's bed for me.
Hope Buck sees what I did.

[RainbowDash2012]

11906895
Does Buck like me?

[Tape Deck]

11906898
I honestly have no idea.

[RainbowDash2012]

11906899
But do you like me?

[Tape Deck]

11906900
Sure, from the like less than five hours I've known you, sure.
(I'm actually heading to bed now. G'night.)

[RainbowDash2012]

11906902
Fair enough. Goodnight good sir.

[Okie Brony]

I first read this story before the second chapter was published. I don't know why I never left a comment.

This is a very nice little story! Love the interaction between Carrot Top and Derpy. I also like that your Hayfries are made from potatoes instead of hay. (Seriously, why do some authors think they're made from hay?)

I can totally see this being set in the world of those comics, with the cardboard cut-outs of Derpy and the muffin.

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[Tape Deck]

11923284
Thank you very much for commenting, and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Yes, without those comics, this story would not exist.

If you're patient (as I mostly just read), in the future I might try to rewrite this, as somebody gave me a lot of good suggestions for improvements.

[Tape Deck]

11923284
And the second chapter was not written by me, it was written by the guy who writes the Monk crossover, of all people.

[Tape Deck]

11923284
I remember now, I actually did some research.

In the episode Twilight Time, at the Hay Burger restaurant they have horseshoe-shaped fries, and since hayfries already exist in other places (and serving them with hayburgers is kind of redundant) I decided to use potatoes.

[Okie Brony]

11923660
Hay urger? What's that? lol

I've always thought that the fried oat burgers from "Trade Ya" looked pretty good.

While it's obvious that hayburgers are made from hay, I like to think that hayshakes (common in stories, if not the show) and hayfries are just trademarked names, like McMuffin.

I love the scene in "Anthropology" where Lyra learns what's in a Big Mac.

Ah never knew that mah brother was so darn tasty!

Eeewwww!

[Tape Deck]

11923738
Hay urger
Fixed.

And yeah, a former pony absolutely loving meat before realizing what it is is perfect comedy.