Strange meat pie

 is a food item found in Fallout 3. As with most food items, it can restore some of your Hit Points, but also gives you a small amount of radiation.

The Strange Meat Pie contains Strange Meat, which is actually human flesh. Should you have the Cannibal perk or manage to talk your way out of a confrontation with the Smith and Wilson families in Andale, Linda Smith will provide you a free Strange Meat Pie daily.

Obtaining Strange Meat Pies from Linda in Andale is only possible after you enter either the Smith House Basement or the "Shack" in Andale. If you don't have a lock-pick skill of 100, you can find the key to the basement in the bedroom upstairs in the Smith house.

Upon entering either location, you'll find the Andale resident's "Skeletons in the closet" - literally. It doesn't take the observational skills of a genius to realize what they're up to. The basement location has a copy of "Gronak the Barbarian," and both locations have multiple Rippers, great for repairing "Jack" if you've found it yet at the Death Claw Sanctuary. Any items picked up here will give you negative Karma, so if you're going for good karma, you may want to take the Gronak if you need it and leave the rippers until you really need them to repair Jack. They're kind of rare, so I wouldn't waste them on repairing other regular Rippers.

After exiting the Shed, you will be confronted by Mr. Smith. (If you went in the basement, when you come out, all the Andale residents will be outside gathered near the shed with weapons drawn, but they won't do anything until you talk to Mr. Smith.

Smith states that he knows you've been poking around in the shed / basement and wants to know if you saw anything "unexpected." You can either tell him you did and you understand or you can tell him you did and that you think the town people are "sick-f*!@s" and you're leaving. With a speech check, you can also try to tell him that, "You were going to have a snack but thought it would be rude." If you pass that speech check or simply tell him you understand, the town will go back to "normal" and you can now ask Linda for a "Strange-Meat Pie."

If you tell Mr. Smith what you probably would in real life, a fight will begin and if you don't fight back, guess what's on the menu! Smith has a Sawed-off Shotgun and like most other cannibal NPC's in Fallout 3, he’s a bit stronger than you would think. However, mid-level characters should have no problem at all here.

Bill Wilson is packing a Magnum and is quite a shot. Take him out quick and grab his stuff. The women are crazy, knife-wielding psychopaths and can be put down with a quick head-shot a piece.

Of course, once you put the town out of its misery, you can't get any strange-meat pies, but at this point, I don't know of any use for them in the game, so it doesn't really matter. Of course if you have the cannibal perk, they could benefit you more, but you can only get one per day. I say loot and plunder.

If you're the kind of person who needs to collect every item in the game as your own personal side-quest like me, you can still obtain a strange meat pie. A single pie can be found in the broken cooler in the basement of the Trapper's Shack.

On a side note that has no bearing on the game itself, Bill Wilson is the name of one of the men who founded the support group "Alcoholics Anonymous..." Often referred to as "Bill W." We just keep running into all sorts of interesting people out in the Waste's!