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.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 15 December 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Snorting and all (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
I was about to construct a "haircake" joke but decided that I am better than that
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
are u really tho
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
pie is gonna win but I AM OBSESSED WITH CAKE
― surm, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
xp: ... no ;_;
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
i wanna have my pie and cake it too
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
ha that was a bad miss from everyone til now
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 December 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
ha
fluke
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 15 December 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
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
― iatee, Thursday, 15 December 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocb7pQKUcJ0
― mark s, Friday, 16 December 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 December 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 December 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
Not real into pies... I'm a big fan of cream pies -- banana cream & coconut cream are my favs.
Cake is disgusting.
― Frobisher, Friday, 16 December 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
Oh man pear-cherry sounds great, cherry-only is often a bit much for me.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 17 December 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
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.
― rb (soda), Saturday, 17 December 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
There are so many pies to love
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Saturday, 17 December 2016 02:01 (seven years ago) link
MY HOUSE
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― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 17 December 2016 04:15 (seven years ago) link
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.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Saturday, 17 December 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 December 2016 13:05 (seven years ago) link
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
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Saturday, 17 December 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/12/space-pie.jpgpies won the space race against cakes and you could actually survive atmospheric re-entry inside a pie - FACT.
― calzino, Saturday, 17 December 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
The only time I've ever missed a flight was when I overstayed at a House of Pies in Los Angeles.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 December 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
pie in a cakewalk
― estela, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link
How did I miss this one??? At least the results are correct.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link
this was a weird one because how do you pick cake over pie
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
i believe it
is that instead of butter? cos i think ive done that before
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
or half oil half butter
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah in lieu of other shortening.
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link
Is frito pie pie?
― how's life, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 09:59 (seven years ago) link
ctrl+f 'black forest gateau'
no results
what the hell guys, get yr shit together
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 10:49 (seven years ago) link
i love a Black Forest Gateau but it doesn't outweigh all possible piemutations
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 10:53 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 10:55 (seven years ago) link
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, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 12:19 (seven years ago) link
ogmor otm
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 12:38 (seven years ago) link
were ppl seriously claiming cheesecake to be a pie itt
it's not a cake, that's for sure.
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
the greatest and most underrated dessert category is mousse
― ogmor, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link
pie, like hot dog, is a sandwich iirc
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
Sandwich involves bread.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
sandwich is a state of mind maaaaan
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
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
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
pigs-in-a-blanket?
― how's life, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
not solid crust
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link