Pie vs. Cake

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in the uk, pies are savoury and "cake" refers to balanitis

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ban all false binaries

Cake, easily. Not much of a tradition for dessert pies where I'm from, but whenever I eat one, I regret my choice and gaze longingly towards the cakes. Lack of tradition yields lack of quality, perhaps.

That said, dinner pies >>>>>>>>>>> smörgåstårta. Are there other dinner cakes? Aspic, sorta, I guess?

I think limiting the realm of "dinner cake/pie" to the savory ones is a mistake

throw off your shackles, my friends

on one hand, most pastry is awful, on the other, savoury always beats sweet and cakes are barely even food

in related european news i have been considering a panettone vs stollen poll, but not sure italy is getting much of a look-in there (i find it a very tough call myself)

argument for cake: it's delicious
argument for pie: it's delicious

I mean really like those spanish tortillas, the eggy delicious thick-potato-omelette things, are cakes

cakes are barely even food

ban

my vote btw is for pie because I am a fucking glutton. there's no other way to describe me, I like to eat and eat. and I like foods I can eat a lot of. cake, no matter how good it is, I'm good after one piece. especially if it's a rich frosting. the frosting will knock me out. pie, line up half a dozen of them fuckers, I will eat them in sequence and put a bullet between your eyes if you try to sneak a piece from one of the not-in-use pies while I'm busy. cake is lovely, but at the end of the day, it cannot supply me with the quantity I need.

what if... we put frosting on the pie

DISRUPT YR DESSERT

this is so easily pie that im ashamed for the threadstarter, who til now had some credibility on ilx food threads

TS: "When come back, bring cake" vs "Birthday Pie" by Rihanna

the cake is a pie

^^^ gets it

ice cream cake

pen pineapple apple pen

i come from a pie family and will uphold our tradition here

joan completely otm

nut pies (pecan, walnut, etc) > cheesecakes > peanut butter pie & similar > cake > fruit pies

apple pie and rhubarb pie are vital, the other fruit pies i agree are low on the totem pole.

waht

cherry is wonderful, strawberry rhubarb is wonderful, lemon meringue is wonderful, blueberry is just okay tho

strawberry rhubarb falls under rhubarb
lemon meringue falls under custard pies not fruit pies imo

chicken pie above all else

questions before I commit: is cobbler pie?
is cheesecake pie?

cheesecake is pie
quiche is pie
cobbler is not pie

pie is a homeomorphism of pizza in the Four Foods Theory

The early Greeks considered it a cake. Some modern authors point to the presence of many eggs, the sole source of leavening, as proof that it is a torte. Still others claim that the separate crust, the soft filling, and the absence of flour prove that it is a custard pie.[12]

xp

is shepherd's pie pie?
is pizza pie?

Cake is a better frosting delivery vehicle. What is it that pie does again?

xps: if cheesecake is pie that's totally not fair.

shepherd's pie is not pie, it is a casserole
pizza is pizza pie

boston cream pie is a cake

voted pie (peak value) over cake (career value)

if pizza is allowed as pie, pie will wipe the floor with cake. or something else a bit less disgusting sounding.

not necessarily, if pizza is allowed as pie then it stands to reason that gin & tonic can be allowed as cake and then it's all to play for again

i think for this poll we are supposed to consider the traditional dessert pie, excluding pizza, cheesecake, savoury pies, etc. otherwise putting it up against cake makes less sense.

cheesecake is probably the grayest area here

cherry is wonderful, strawberry rhubarb is wonderful, lemon meringue is wonderful, blueberry is just okay tho

man you think you know a guy and then he busts in with a "blueberry is just ok" take. blueberry pie done right is a top five pie

coconut cream > tart cherry > chess > apple > other

The album title is presumably a reworking of the famous "Let Them Eat Cake" quote

want to make a lemon chess pie now hmmm

im assuming this is referring to dessert pies and dessert cakes so does not encompass fatayer/samosas/empanadas vs spanish tortillas. savoury pies vs savoury cakes is difficult. sweet pies vs sweet cakes is easy, clear pies is the answer

imo pizza is very tricky because its crust has yeast. proper cakes and pies really don't, I think -- pie crust, savory or sweet, is flour & shortening whether it's butter or lard or vegetable shortening. cakes that rise are muffins or biscuits. pizza really kinda is just the perfection of savory pie but in my view can only enter a pie vs. cake poll on somewhat false pretenses

agree that leavening is disqualifying here but in a grand taxonomy of food pizza is clearly in the same branch as pie

chocolate bourbon pecan pie is the apex dessert btw

what is a "clear pie"

that does sound good

man you think you know a guy and then he busts in with a "blueberry is just ok" take. blueberry pie done right is a top five pie

I have an ongoing feud with one of my friends over blueberry pie, only it specifically has to be made with Maine blueberries; I find this detail/distinction so insufferable and enraging that my only recourse is to make sure every single blueberry pie I encounter is put directly into the trash

what is a "clear pie"

single crust with a vodka & cornstarch filling?

what is a "clear pie"

― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:48 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha "clearly pies" is what i meant to say, clearly

"put a cloth over the blueberry one"
"why? people won't..."
{DJP is spotted entering room}
"QUICK, I CAN SEE HIM SCOUTING THE DOORWAYS FOR TRASH CANS"
{DJP slides up}
"fuck, too late"
DJP: "Can I see the Maine blueberry one for just a second"

jclc otm a good blueberry pie is one of the best, w/ some vanilla ice cream

i have had some real good cake in my time but this is pie in a walk

xp okay sure but when you spend a large amount of time with a person who regularly says "blueberry pie is the platonic ideal of all pies, but ONLY if made with Maine blueberries and ONLY when purchased in Ogunquit or Kennebunkport at these specific locations" you start throwin' 'bows

also sweet potato pie > blueberry pie

yea that is definitely dumb xp

pumpkin vs sweet potato which is better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmuPlZPCP7A

pumpkin vs sweet potato which is better

lol this is not even in doubt

sweet potato pie is delicious, pumpkin pie tastes like an afterthought in comparison

It would seem more rational to me to keep the blueberry pie and throw that friend in the trash.

wtf I'm not gonna eat my friend

that's just weird

well I'm not gonna eat that pie either after I put it in the trash so that's not a fair comparison point

a person who regularly says "blueberry pie is the platonic ideal of all pies, but ONLY if made with Maine blueberries and ONLY when purchased in Ogunquit or Kennebunkport at these specific locations" you start throwin' 'bows

this whole "it must only be made with THIS kind of [ingredient]" mindset is truly the most punchable mindset imo. Ottolenghi's cookbooks have a lot of "3 kaffir lime leaves" stuff but I asked him on Twitter about this and he said really guilelessly "oh, it's really ok, the main thing is the proportions, not the exact variety of whatever" and I realized that the "blueberries (Kennebunkport Sport variety where possible)" mindset is probably a lure for people who like to think of themselves as particularly discerning, a mindset which, if you appeal to it in your cookbooks, will sell you some cookbooks

a good pumpkin pie is a delight on which I won't hate but sweet potato pie is one of the wonders of the food world

average pie is better than average cake

the best cake is better than the best pie

this is basically the same thing as Beatles vs Rolling Stones

u cant make blueberry pie with peaches tho

watch me

this whole "it must only be made with THIS kind of [ingredient]" mindset is truly the most punchable mindset imo. Ottolenghi's cookbooks have a lot of "3 kaffir lime leaves" stuff but I asked him on Twitter about this and he said really guilelessly "oh, it's really ok, the main thing is the proportions, not the exact variety of whatever" and I realized that the "blueberries (Kennebunkport Sport variety where possible)" mindset is probably a lure for people who like to think of themselves as particularly discerning, a mindset which, if you appeal to it in your cookbooks, will sell you some cookbooks

lol I love this

this dude and my wife made up a sweet potato pie recipe which was dependent (at his insistence) on using Japanese sweet potatoes because they are naturally sweeter than American sweet potatoes and therefore not as dependent upon added sugar (even though he used Splenda)

I can't front though, it was a bomb ass pie

yeah that's the thing, it's the same with SOME music dudes too, this insufferable mindset can lead you to some deeply sufferable chow/tunes

this whole "it must only be made with THIS kind of [ingredient]" mindset is truly the most punchable mindset imo. Ottolenghi's cookbooks have a lot of "3 kaffir lime leaves" stuff but I asked him on Twitter about this and he said really guilelessly "oh, it's really ok, the main thing is the proportions, not the exact variety of whatever" and I realized that the "blueberries (Kennebunkport Sport variety where possible)" mindset is probably a lure for people who like to think of themselves as particularly discerning, a mindset which, if you appeal to it in your cookbooks, will sell you some cookbooks

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:09 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which ilxor am i thinking of here

Cake might win for non-gustatory reasons why because Cake Wrecks has brought so much joy into my life.

Wrecking a pie is never quite as hilarious.

Yeah that Maine thing is ridiculous obviously Alaska blueberries are the only reasonable option.

wild vs domesticated blueberries are pretty different but i can't imagine the location matters beyond that

I gotta go with pie because it can reach heights that I have not experienced with cake. However if I get handed a slice of mediocre cake that's nbd, if I get mediocre pie that's a fucking chore.

this is so easily pie that im ashamed for the threadstarter, who til now had some credibility on ilx food threads

never have i felt closer to darragh

xp yeah, I don't really know enough about varietal flavor differences and I've never had Maine blueberries, though my totally subjective feeling is that the Alaskan blueberries I've had have been superior to the WA ones. Supposedly they have more antioxidants but who knows.

most cakes disappoint imo but a really outstanding chocolate cake is better than most pies

when you reach the highest manifestations of both pie and cake, the only suitable reaction to either one is awe and delight, so comparison at that level is difficult.

if I get handed a slice of mediocre cake that's nbd

the best cake is better than the best pie

I'm gonna disagree with these. I've had plenty of mediocre cake from office parties to church lunches, and binned plenty of them as a result, to the point where that cake better look really damn good or I'm passing. Otoh I would eat pretty much any pie.

#2: No way.

I was about to construct a "haircake" joke but decided that I am better than that

are u really tho

pie is gonna win but I AM OBSESSED WITH CAKE

xp: ... no ;_;

i wanna have my pie and cake it too

ha that was a bad miss from everyone til now

ha

fluke

I think I eat way more cake just cause we live in a cake-centric world but when I think about this, I think I am actually a pie man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocb7pQKUcJ0

I say pie. You can have pie for breakfast, make them sweet or savory, they can have fruit or cream and other stuff, and best of all is the pie shake, a milkshake made by blending in a slice of pie, which is the best thing ever.

I'm making two cakes next week, a red velvet and a boozy rum cake. The latter is super complicated, and a good cake is much more satisfying, to me as a baker, than a good pie. But I still vote pie. Plus, like, pie in the face! You can't do that with cake, except during weddings, and that's a dumb tradition, anyway, to shove cake in each other's face. I don't think anyone would deny a much better tradition would be for the best man getting you with a pie in the face. Some time, at the reception, when you least expect it. That would be hilarious. The groom would be having a great time, but always, in the back of his mind, he'll be wondering: when is he going to get me? Maybe it will even happen during dessert, when he's having cake. Who knows?

My favorite pies are pear-cherry, chocolate chess, sugar cream ... Banana cream pie done well is awesome, but it rarely happens. I can make a mean lemon-blueberry. Man, pie. And pie with a scoop of ice-cream is just so good. The only people who have cake and ice cream together are children, but they'll eat anything. Ask Carvel.

Not real into pies... I'm a big fan of cream pies -- banana cream & coconut cream are my favs.

Cake is disgusting.

Oh man pear-cherry sounds great, cherry-only is often a bit much for me.

Pie.

But on the Maine blueberry tip, I gotta insist that Maine blueberries are a totally, demonstrably different species from regular blueberries - neither better nor worse - but smaller and sweeter. But eff a man who abstains from a BBP on account of species loyalty.

There are so many pies to love

MY HOUSE

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I voted pie but I have to mention the deconstructed cheese course my daughter had when we went out for a birthday dinner for my wife Thursday — pear spice cake with blue cheese frosting, served with candied walnuts and port sorbet. Sometimes cake is the proper structure for playing around with flavors.

there's no food that can't be improved by turning it into a pie. can't say the same about cake. too easy a decision.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/cake+town+usa/@43.7932291,-72.2702608,13z/data=!3m1!4b1

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pie+Town,+NM+87827/@34.2983884,-108.1369776,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8726b3e42634a763:0xd896bacf6f24062!8m2!3d34.2983884!4d-108.1347836

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/12/space-pie.jpg
pies won the space race against cakes and you could actually survive atmospheric re-entry inside a pie - FACT.

The only time I've ever missed a flight was when I overstayed at a House of Pies in Los Angeles.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

pie in a cakewalk

How did I miss this one??? At least the results are correct.

this was a weird one because how do you pick cake over pie

apple pie is one of my favourite foodstuffs

my current recipe i use olive oil for the crust - not bad and terrible like it sounds.

i believe it

is that instead of butter? cos i think ive done that before

or half oil half butter

yeah in lieu of other shortening.

Is frito pie pie?

ctrl+f 'black forest gateau'

no results

what the hell guys, get yr shit together

i love a Black Forest Gateau but it doesn't outweigh all possible piemutations

Can't believe this shit tbh.

Pizza is not a pie. It's stuff-on-bread. You'd never say cheese-on-toast was a fucking pie.

Quiche is not a pie either, ffs. It's stuff-on-pastry. A pie has a LID. That's how you know it's a pie. Cottage pie. Fish pie. Defined by their lids.

A sausage roll is not a pie, either, not everything with pastry is a fucking pie.

Cheesecake is a CAKE. That's why it's called cheeseCAKE.

Americans are foul and wrong. First they elected Trump and now this.

more than any other food, even passable pies and cakes sometimes just feel like big hunks of stuff, and eating them becomes a very self-conscious process of piling this inert matter into your mouth. even the most disastrous cake is recognisably human in its origins, but the worst pies are inedible, anti-human husks, baked deposits that instill a dasein dread and are only fit to be buried deep in the earth. a truly awful pie makes the world colder and gloomier

on the other hand they can both be delicious

ogmor otm

were ppl seriously claiming cheesecake to be a pie itt

it's not a cake, that's for sure.

the greatest and most underrated dessert category is mousse

pie, like hot dog, is a sandwich iirc

Sandwich involves bread.

sandwich is a state of mind maaaaan

A pie has a LID. That's how you know it's a pie. Cottage pie. Fish pie. Defined by their lids.

false, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie etc don't have lids

quiche is a pie

if you have to bake it in a pie dish then it is a pie

but i admit there are other pies that are not baked in pie dishes. galettes are pies right

the lid is a red herring, i would put quiches, flans, tarts in to the realm of pie, which is really "solid (baked?) crust plus filling" - i'd say pizza is an outlier but not argue too hard, a calzone is more or less a pasty - which also belongs to the realm of pie, alongside sausage rolls

pigs-in-a-blanket?

not solid crust

What about crustless / bottomless pies?

Food taxonomy is for wankers, really.

What's an example of a crustless/bottomless pie?

Shepherds pie. Cottage pie. Fish pie. No crusts, no bases, no pastry at all. Several pies in the uk just have pastry lids and no bottom.

shepherd's pie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAJG3uB2lVs

Shepherd's pie's so-called lid is a layer of mashed potatoes, i.e., an ingredient, it's not a pie lid that in any way resembles a pastry. If you let shepherd's pie in then the whole lot has to come in with it, including pizza. As a shepherd yourself you should know this

shepherd's pie is a casserole, not a pie

also must allow doo doo pies

tbh i think shepherd's pie really is more of a casserole

yeah i think accepting that shepherd's pie isn't a pie is akin to accepting that cheesecake isn't a cake - both obviously true but left to us through some unfortunate quirk of languange

ts: zep 'custard pie' vs halen 'poundcake'

What about Piebald? What about Cake?

mud pies v urinal cakes

some srs pastrybros in here questioning the bonafides of the clear winner hey pastrybros stfu and get behind pie as it lumbers towards the real enemy in the big pie vs fruit contest in nov 17

NEVER FORGET

A big blob of mayo on the side of a bowl of chilli is amazing

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, September 23, 2012

Yeah, shepherd's pie and cottage pie aren't really pies to me. I'm not entirely convinced by quiche being a pie either, though. (I still voted for pie.)

are we having another pie poll

I've never thought of cheesecake as a pie before, or even as a cake, really, but it's as much a pie as key lime pie, now that I think about it. It's a good question.

http://www.finecooking.com/item/11489/cheesecake-or-cheesepie

His conclusion: "So, in short, a cheesecake is a pie. It can also be a cake, but it can't not be a pie."

Another take:

Like the Tomato Fruit vs Vegetable debate, cheesecake can be classified as a pie (separate crust, the soft filling, and the absence of flour), a custard (unbaked cheesecakes), or a torte (using eggs as the sole source of leavening). But since the earliest cheesecakes were created by the early Greeks, and they considered it a cake, that is the general classification used.

Alton Brown:

Aside, of course, from the crust, a basic cheesecake only contains some sugar, vanilla, eggs and dairy. It's a custard no matter how you cut it. In fact the only real difference between a cheese cake and a cream pie is that most of the dairy of a cheesecake comes in the form of a soft, smooth, tangy, cow's milk cheese containing no less than 33 percent milk fat and no more than 55 percent moisture, known far and wide as cream cheese.

In other words:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyI7QAnaVQQ

quiche is v obviously pie

otm

like a custard pie, i don't see that the filling has got any bearing on a dish's pie-ness

that soft, smooth, tangy, cow's milk cheese containing no less than 33 percent milk fat and no more than 55 percent moisture that we all know and love

I'm with Sick M on the lid being necessary for pie-ness (heh), I just disagree on the lid being sufficient for pie-ness.

Having said that, I'm willing to believe that the true/technical definition does not require a lid. It's just... if someone were to offer pie, what would an average person expect? This may differ between countries but I'm not sure, there seems to be disagreement within countries too.

the straightforward cake known as the boston cream pie is the greatest pie travesty of all

cake pie is a lie

as counterpoint i offer Kendall Mint Cake

http://adambalic.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451be7269e20134884f3db2970c-800wi

clearly in the cake of soap tradition, denied

kendall mint urinal cake

have u ever tried it

never even heard of it

i've had it, it's best left to life or death situations on the side of a mountain i wd say

sad!!!!!!

ALL I WANT IS CAKE

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE CAKE

it does look like a poor last resort scroggin substitute

if i had heard of it before seeing it i would have pictured a cake, not a chunk

you're really right though i can't :/

i like it

is this the cake thread

not rising to that

There are tons of pies with no top. Pumpkin pie, key lime pie, chess pie, Dutch apple pie (a crumble), etc.

Notably, all American 'pies', except the one that even you say is a crumble (a crumble is not a pie).

That Kendall Mint Cake stuff is designed to appeal to climbers who've entered the so-called Death Zone above 23,000 ft of elevation. They lose all their appetite up there and must force themselves to eat anything, just to prevent catastrophic weight loss and weakness. It is almost pure sugar, with a shot of mint extract to make it a bit more palatable.

xpost A crumble topping, not a crumble, which is more or less the same here as a crisp (which of course elsewhere means a potato chip). But then we're going down the rabbit hole of nomenclature and slang. Regardless, just because other countries have fewer pies than we do does not make our other pies any less pie!

it raises concerns that ye'll call any old fuckin thing a pie which is relevant

bye bye miss tart

This is a Dutch apple pie:
http://search.chow.com/thumbnail/1280/800/www.chowstatic.com/assets/2013/09/30859_Recipeimage_620x413_dutch_apple_pie.jpg

Note the crumble topping.

This is a crumble:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/sites/default/files/styles/recipe/public/recipe_images/recipe-image-legacy-id--219487_11.jpg?itok=VWh9sJnD

Crumble has, well, crumble on top. But a pie is baked in a shell, top or no top.

http://www.thekitchn.com/pie-vs-tart-whats-the-differen-68710

A pie is a sweet or savory dish with a crust and a filling. The sides of a pie dish or pan are sloped. It can have a just a bottom, just a top, or both a bottom and a top crust. A pie crust is traditionally made of flour, salt, cold water, and lard (or shortening) but many pie crust recipes use a combination of fats such as butter, lard, or vegetable shortening, or just butter. The goal is a crisp, flaky crust. Pies are served straight from the dish in which they were baked.

A tart is a sweet or savory dish with shallow sides and only a bottom crust. Tart crusts are usually made from pastry dough: traditionally flour, unsalted butter, cold water, and sometimes sugar. The goal is a firm, crumbly crust. Tarts are baked in a pan with a removable bottom, or in pastry ring on top of a baking sheet so that it can be unmolded before serving.

They call them "cousins," along with galettes.

insufficient data

this thread

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a pie is a featherless biped

this thread is kind of a pecan pie of sorts in that it is filled with nuts!

pie revisionists secretly voted cake

I think the only thing we can all agree on is that, no, Boston cream pie is not pie.

The Dutch Apple Pie does look like a pie! It has the bottom bit and the crumble makes a kind of lid, so it's more pie-like to me than tart type things.

The 'kitchn' link pretty much firms up the true definition, but I still maintain the average (British) person would expect both top and bottom crusts on something claiming to be a pie. Meaning is use and all that.

the average (British) person

outrageous imo

I voted cake before thinking this through and I've been regretting it every day

It's ok, there's no electoral college in ilx and the right candidate won.

http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t323/HappyGestapo/gifs/stoogew.gif

ice cream cake got robbed

Nobody heard it, the ice cream cake
But still it lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but melting.

https://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/OagU6HD-0uBjyGF5Q3Bhkw/180s.jpg

There's no argument that pie is more versatile and pretty fantastic. But cake is CAKE.

when did cake bacon

it's possible cake baconed before bacon

did pie bacon before weebl? probably

https://twitter.com/barackobama/status/496413655202676736?lang=en

Yeah well he set the scene for Trump, so he can fuck off.

There is no doubt that Trump prefers cake.

cake baconed??

i thought that was cupcakes

tbf in the uk all of baking baconed the moment mary berry lifted a hopeful contestant's vol-au-vent to her lips

bakened

boke

bakt

love chocolate

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0YGaLwVIAAwCad.jpg

Think you'll find that the protruding head makes that a torte

u_u

also must allow doo doo pies

I'm a little embarrassed by how long I laughed at this.

let me tell you something about cake: i want 5 (not four) cakes for this Christmas

because at Christmas, you eat cake

That is more than fair. Cake can have its day, just as every dog has its day.

i have eaten a roughly equal amount of cake and pie over the last 2 days, pie probably edging it

The English seem to favor puddings on Christmas, the poor sods.

Christmas pudding is great but i've got the feeling i'm the only one in this house who likes it

i will readily admit that i could not deny bread or banana pudding on any day

Don't even start a debate as to what is or is not a pudding.

That said, I just baked a dozen individual sticky toffee puddings topped with kumquats that counter the sweetness. Just waiting to be doused with toffee sauce and put under the broiler.

Should say I also made an annoyingly elaborate 4-layer boozy rum cake (took three days!). And my wife made a cheesecake. Or cream cheese pie, if you prefer.

would eat kumquat toffee pudding and/or rum cake, obv

RUM CAKE omg

It's truly insane. Four-layer sponge cake soaked with rum syrup, with layers of rum-spiked cream in between and around the whole pile of cakes, then coated with a rum-spiked whipped cream. In total: 14 eggs, but no butter!

damnnnn!!! jealous.

I think my wife is making a chocolate bourbon pecan pie for tomorrow's dessert festivities. At least I heard the idea floated and now it better happen otherwise a bunch of presents are going straight into the fireplace.

lol

lol

I seem to hear in my mind the faraway voice of an unknown genius who is saying:

"Hmmm. Lovely. Could anything be better than this pecan pie? (inspiration hits like a ton of bricks) Wait! I know! A bourbon pecan pie! But wait! Dare I lift my eyes yet higher, where on yonder heights I seem to see...yes! (swoons briefly) A chocolate bourbon pecan pie!"

At which point the owner of the voice expires in delight and a welter of exclamation points.

pecan pie + lemon meringue are my 2 pies

Yeah, lemon meringue or key lime or cherry for me but on the other hand anything with a healthy booze component is a-ok

also is Baked Alaska a pie?

No. It doesn't even have a crust, does it? Just ice cream in a shell of merengue on cake?

lol yes

'Just' ice cream in a shell of meringue on a cake. 'Just'.

Hahah truthbomb

I wanted baked Alaska for Xmas so bad and white Russians!

ctrl+F "pancake" 0/0

(was reviewing this for a Pi day work argument)