Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North

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Andy looked annoyed at being left out of the huddle, and grumbled under his breath, until Jody grabbed his arm and pulled him in to join what was rapidly becoming a soppy sports-movie style group-hug. That looked like it didn’t go too well, sorry, Dean.” Jody’s face was a picture of guilt. “I shouldn’t have been meddling like that. I am really sorry.” Dean was lost, wandering in unknown territory with no sign of rescue on the horizon. “I don’t know,” he admitted as he struggled to find familiar ground. “It was a joke. I suppose I just meant you know...” Dean tipped his head to the side and let his gaze slip down over Novak’s body, before lifting it again to meet his eyes. “You don’t exactly look like you eat a lot of cake.” That said, just because there is a group in society potentially being discriminated against does not necessarily mean the government should rush to make it illegal. Indeed, the Liberal Democrat chair of the group producing the report, Jo Swinson MP, concedes that, even though there is evidence that overweight people can be discriminated against and are less likely to be employed, she is ‘not convinced yet that bringing this into the Equalities Act is necessarily the best response’. Are they a couple?” Sam asked. He sounded a tad disappointed but it was a reasonable assumption, and Dean was no less keen to know the answer.

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It’s still a show, Dean, and you need to get everyone on your side anyway you can. They aren’t going to want to hand the prize over to some scruffy grumpy asshole, this will be a popularity contest just as much as a test of your baking skills, whatever Pam says about it.” A study led by the University of Manchester and Monash University in Melbourne found that obese women are more likely to be discriminated against when applying for jobs and receive lower starting salaries than their more slender colleagues. Perhaps not surprisingly, the study also found the higher people rated their own physical attractiveness and its importance, the greater the prejudice and discrimination. There is a moment of quiet while Novak works out whatever it is he needs to work out. Dean’s nerves stir to life as he recognises, with a sinking feeling in his gut, the very real possibility that the asshole might actually refuse. Perhaps if he went round all the others, begging for scraps, he could scrounge up enough to at least attempt the pie. It would be a mishmash of fats, all warm and slippery now, from the heat that’s steadily building in the tent, the combined output of the lights overhead and the ovens below the counters.

And, because Dean found it entirely too easy to be a smug ass when the occasion called for it, he raised his glass to Novak in salute and downed the rest of his drink in one go. He stood, turned to leave and made damn sure to bump into Castiel’s shoulder, non too gently, on his way out. He waved a hello at Jody and Charlie and snagged a couple of tall glasses filled with fizzy-fruity stuff from a waiter. He handed one to Sam with a shrug. The quirk of Sam’s eyebrow, creeping up his giant forehead, was an unspoken agreement that they were not going to talk about the sparkly ‘girl-drinks’ they were holding, on pain of death – no matter how amazing they tasted (and what was that? Peach? It was frigging delicious whatever it was). Pam nodded in greeting but carried on talking, not one to be distracted mid-flow, especially when the talk was about her favourite topic “the show,” as she wiggled her fingers around the words.

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Okay,” Charlie nods but doesn’t sound convinced, “Still not sure about going south in the summer though.” Dean snorts a laugh at that, and she hits him hard on the arm. “Shut up, I’m being serious, Dean.”What social life, Castiel? Please enlighten me as to when you’ve been doing all this socialising without me noticing.”