- If Miss Celia is a Lady Drunk, shouldn't Minny have been able to smell it on her breath from day one? A hint that it's not liquor in all those bottles she drinks.
Fridge Horror
- In the book, Minny thinks Johnny will kill her if he sees her, which is why she leaves an hour before he gets home. In one part, she's cleaning a part of the house and removes a rug and sees "a big, deep stain the color of rust" which adds to her fear. Turns out later that it's not from what she thinks, but from the last time Celia miscarried.
- Minny bakes a poop pie that actually doesn't taste like poop. Did she...taste it just to make sure it wasn't obvious? Did she carefully weigh the poop-chocolate ratio?
- Probably just proof that Minny is that good of a cook and baker, that she didn't need to taste it. Probably put a small bit inside with the cocoa.
- Fridge Logic: Is it possible she didn't actually put anything in the pie? Note that Minny never outright says she did it, she only recounts the moment when she told Hilly that she did. As long as she never lets on, making Hilly think she did would be just as good as actually doing it, and a lot easier (not to mention not having to prepare something disgusting with her own kitchenware or bake it in her oven).
- In the movie at least, Minny didn't want Hilly's innocent mother to eat the pie, and she said she only planned to watch Hilly eat the pie and leave, meaning something had to be in that pie.
- Not necessarily. The ploy only works if she acts like she actually did do what she claims to have done, and keeping it away from Hilly's mother would be part of that. And even if she had done it for real, the real payoff is in Hilly knowing what she ate (or supposedly ate), so just watching her eat it isn't good enough; telling her would have to be part of the plan whether it was for real or not.
- She may have intended for Hilly to be disgusted and spit it out. The fact that Hilly didn't even notice was just icing on the, uh, cake.
