Upper Crust

The rest of the story of Upper Crust is as remarkable as the events leading up to their big break.

The special sugar was never dropped, despite over the years it constantly came up as a point of contention between Cookie and Pinny. With the events in Ponyville they couldn’t ever find a way of removing it from their baking. It was core to the success of their business. Over the years they’d try substitutes, other types of sugars but it never worked out. Customers always immediately noticed the difference, sales would drop and they’d have to switch back. This became particularly problematic as the business grew.

With the opening of a bakery in Ponyville as well as their already wildly successful one in Manehattan, the two quickly paid off the debts. The Mayor of Manehattan was not entirely happy with the final arrangement but they were somewhat forced into it by a letter sent by Twilight Sparkle. Begrudgingly, she had to accept that the ponies of her city were going to get bigger and that was exactly what they did.

Once Pinny and Cookie paid off their debts, they decided with all the money coming in to continue opening further branches. Upper Crust became a chain of bakeries. Whilst the Ponyville branch had effectively been free, investment was needed into further establishments. They started local, opening more stores in Bronclyn before expanding out into the rest of the city. In the short span of three years, there was an Upper Crust on the corner of at least every district. In five years, you could barely waddle a block without finding one. The quality of course suffered without the two personally at the helm, but the sugar kept everypony coming back. Once they had established themselves in Manehattan, the brand spread to Canterlot, Griffonstone, Yakyakistan and just about everywhere you could think of across the globe.

The size of everycreature ballooned of course, as a side effect of the excessive consumption of baked goods. The already big ones just got even bigger. Eventually they had to be moved out of the cities to take up the surrounding landscape as they simply grew too large to be kept anywhere their bulk could topple buildings over. This was particularly true of Clipsy, who after having become the official advertising mascot for the bakery still had to somehow do her job. With the cart creaking they hauled her out to a large field on the city edge. The advertising hoarding on her body grew as she did until it was visible from miles around, the cart long buried under a mountain of pony flab.

And so it carried on for years, everypony growing to immobile, super gigantic blobs that took up most of the landscape. Eventually all too big to even visit the bakeries anymore. A stroke of genius meant that a delivery service was introduced, bringing the baking straight to the gigantic blobs that dotted the landscape of Equestria, Twilight being the most addicted and a Princess eventually overtook Clipsy, covering the entirety of Ponyville.

Pinny and Clipsy always wondered if what they did was right...there was forever an unshakeable feeling that they had somehow doomed the world. The thing was, it caused a boom of technology to handle the immense weight that everycreature had gained. Things began to advance at a rapid pace. By the time the two were an old couple, the world was almost unrecognisable to them. The pair kept baking though, in their original store until they couldn’t anymore, rich beyond their wildest dreams and probably the only pair of thin ponies left on Equestria. Upper Crust had turned into something they couldn’t have dreamed of when they started all those years ago.

The future of Equestria looked increasingly blorpy.