Winkle Bakery

The Winkle Bakery is a local business in Thistlewood that sells various baked goods and also has a complete stranglehold on the wireless information networks; from cell towers to internet. All data flow in the town runs through a filter they have set up to sell more pies. Either because of this or because of the quality of their work, business is booming. The bakery was run by Betty and

Description
The bakery is shaped like a giant pie, with a shingle roof on top of it. The slits on the pie have smoke stacks coming out, and they come out of the pie, go through the roof, and about ten more feet. They pump out a LOT of smoke. The air smells like cinnamon.

Inside, the bakery is pretty large. There's a small dining area, with a bunch of two-seat tables and booths. The central area has almost completely glass walls, and a glass table in the center. Three of the walls are filled to the brim with danishes, fudge, cookies, and all sorts of pastries. The fourth wall appears to be an aquarium with gumfish in it.The center glass display is pies, with most of them being rhubarb.

The glass counter itself has even more baked goods, mostly cakes.A few people usually idle in the dining side of the bakery, eating cookies which appear to be red velvet with a blueberry creamcheese icing on them.There is one door that says "BATH"  on it.

Mysteries
The bakery contains a number of unusual features. One is a strange control rod that acts as a leash/toy for the Winkle's massive pet slime Izzie. Another is that the kitchen area is a completely featureless room containing no food preparation equipment.

To that effect, over the course of the first season, the interns discover that the Winkles are in fact aliens and that the bakery is a spaceship that's been converted into a bakery. During this discovery, Fliss, Leslea and Jermaine accidentally damage Fred Winkle's human form and he has to pretend to be dead, much to the annoyance of both Winkles. They come from a world that does not appreciate food culture as their species can subsist entirely on dust, so they came to earth to serve food. They are extremely keen to appear like normal humans.

Fred's "death" does not seem to have halted business, and while the town knows Betty Winkle is grieving her husband, she has continued to make deliveries and run the bakery.