You must be an apple pie man, Mike. No, it isn't one of the Communists' lies. It is just ordinary capitalism at work. A good food (commercial) photographer who has been doing it a few years knows a LOT of tricks. Stacking up a 3-cherry high pie would be child's play for him. I once sat though a seminar at the old Winona School of Professional Photography. Mercifully, it was in the evening, right after dinner. I can't recall who the instructor was now, it may have been Gerhard Bakker, it's been a long time, but I do remember that you could "taste" a few of his pictures.