I don’t want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

In this quip, Deen uses deliberately earthy, comic diction (“pie hole”) to defend pleasure and indulgence as a life philosophy. The line frames eating not as mere sustenance but as a central, affirmative experience—“good food” is presented as something one should not postpone or deny. By joking that the mouth was “made for pies,” she turns appetite into destiny, implying that enjoyment (especially of rich, comforting foods) is natural and even virtuous. The humor also signals a persona: unpretentious, Southern, and celebratory of traditional treats, pushing back against guilt-driven or ascetic attitudes toward food.