Mud pie recipe never a reality

Tony Funderburk · Jul 22, 2026

If you’re a parent or family on a budget, you probably like seeing that familiar sign: Kids Eat Free. But what if you took them into a restaurant where the free food was a mud pie recipe? I bet free wouldn’t look so good.

There’s no mud pie recipe good enough for kids to eat free.

I spent my growing up years mostly in Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma. And I can tell you, from experience, there’s a fair amount of variety in the dirt you can find across those states. Plus, they each get plenty of rain. So, it’s easy for kids to come up with a good mud pie recipe.

But a…