A Visit to the Cream-Puff Factory

May 21, 2009 8:39 PM

Help me remember the name of this short story I read in a humor anthology in the late 70's. I remember the title as "A Visit to the Cream-Puff Factory," but all my attempts to find it again have been unsuccessful.

It was in an anthology of humorous writings from the 1940s or 1950s. As I recall, it was about a cream-puff factory where the assembly line got out of control.

I could have sworn the story was in either A Subtreasury of American Humor or The Thurber Carnival, but subsequent investigations proved it wasn't in either one. Google, WorldCat, and my library's short story indexes have also failed to find the story.

Does anyone know the title and/or author of this story? Thanks!

posted by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo to media & arts (2 comments total)

Are you sure you're not connecting some other story with the Homer Price and the Donut Machine story? That story features an out of control donut machine.
Amazon has a "search inside" of that book
posted by cosmicbandito at 9:15 PM on June 17

I have fond memories of Homer Price and the Donut Machine (I really loved that book in my childhood), but it wasn't the story I was thinking of. This story definitely came from an adult-level anthology.
posted by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo at 6:29 PM on June 21