What is your favourite pie?

[Borachio]

Oooh!!!

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[SS-18 ICBM]

Meat for savoury.

For sweet,

Pumpkin. There is no other legitimate answer to this question. Anyone giving any answer other than pumpkin is on the payroll of whatever industry they are saying is best, be it pecan, apple, you name it.

And no, I am not on the payroll of the Great Pumpkin Appreciation Society or any other pumpkin related endeavor.

I can just devout the stuff.

 

[classical_hero]

My second favourite is Poontang Pie.

Link to video.

 

[Lillefix]

I've eaten pies a couple of times. Apple, cherry and blueberry I think. Didn't like it very much to be honest.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Shepards pie.

 

[DuneBear]

Caramel apple pie. Divine.

 

[classical_hero]

How often have people had to eat humble pie?

 

[Bootstoots]

Moderator Action: I split Magic: The Gathering and other card-based RPG discussion off and put it in this thread in All Other Games.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Are we counting cobbler?


I am divided between blackberry and pecan. There is nothing in this world like a homemade blackberry pie that you produced yourself by spending all day in the woods tempting snakes and getting scratched by briars to collect the berries.

 

[Quintillus]

I'd have to go with blueberry. Blueberry anything is usually a strong contender, but they go especially well in pies. Key lime can also be really good, and sweet potato is good choice this time of year. Banoffee sounds interesting, but I've never had it.

Going with a more liberal definition of pies to also include savory ones, my experience is a lot more limited. I suppose I'd have to go shepherd's; I'm not a big fan of chicken pot pie.

I am a fan of pizza pies, but IMO they aren't true pies.

Are we counting cobbler?

IMO cobbler isn't a pie, but another type of dessert.

But I'm also one of those people who doesn't think cheesecake is a pie. It's circular, but being circular doesn't necessarily make it a pie. I make cornbread in a circular skillet sometimes, but that doesn't make my cornbread into a pie.

 

[Agent327]

Ricepie.

 

[downtown]

Key Lime, followed by chocolate, but man, it's hard to mess up pie. Virtually every pie is awesome. Apple. Blueberry. Pumpkin. Rhubarb. They'll all dope.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

IMO cobbler isn't a pie, but another type of dessert.

But I'm also one of those people who doesn't think cheesecake is a pie. It's circular, but being circular doesn't necessarily make it a pie. I make cornbread in a circular skillet sometimes, but that doesn't make my cornbread into a pie.

Cheesecake is just as much pie as any other custard based pie. It's a crust filled with stuff, the only difference between it and, say, chocolate cream pie (besides flavor) is that the cream pie uses milk or cream to make the custard and cheesecake uses cream cheese. But at the end of the day it's still dairy and eggs cooked into a stable gel, AKA a custard.

 

[PhroX]

Cheesecake is just as much pie as any other custard based pie. It's a crust filled with stuff, the only difference between it and, say, chocolate cream pie (besides flavor) is that the cream pie uses milk or cream to make the custard and cheesecake uses cream cheese. But at the end of the day it's still dairy and eggs cooked into a stable gel, AKA a custard.

But cheesecake doesn't have crust, just a base of crushed biscuits...

 

[Traitorfish]

Steak and ale, undoubtedly.

This is the only reasonable answer to the question.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

But cheesecake doesn't have crust, just a base of crushed biscuits...

That bottom bit is the crust. It's usually made out of cookies or graham crackers, yes, but a pressed style pie crust is still a pie crust. Hell, shepard's pie uses mashed potatoes as a crust, but people would still recognize it as a pie (albeit a savory one) if you put it in front of them.

 

[warpus]

I have done some research it seems that most cakes are flour-based, while the cheesecake is not.

This debate also seems to go back all the way to the Greeks and maybe even beyond:

Whether baked cheesecake should be classified as a pie, a custard, a torte, or something else is a matter of debate.

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.

I don't even know what a torte is, other that the Polish word for cake is tort. So I'm going with "cheesecake is a pie".

 

[bhsup]

Chaurus Pie

Now once you got some chaurus meat, you got to put it on a spit. Make sure you get that white, thick meat from the midsection. Don't use that yellow meat from the head or legs, because that's got poisonous acid in it and if you eat it, you'll probably die.

So you cook up your chaurus on the spit. And you want to baste it with sauce. To make that, grind up some tomatoes into pulp and then mix that with water, peppers, honey and salt. And then you have to boil it all together.

I wouldn't use too many peppers, but you want a few spoons of salt. How much honey you use is up to you. Depends on how sweet you want it.

When the chaurus is done and you've basted it enough, then you want to bake it in a pie with some potatoes, carrots and apples. And put the rest of that sauce you made in there, too.

If you want turnips, sometimes those are good. Depends on what you're in the mood for.

Then you cook that for awhile. Look for the top to be light brown, that's when you know it's done.

And that's it. Easy as pie. Haha.

- Nils

 

[bhavv]

I don't like cheesecake bases. I'm not a fan of crunchy or crispy food, I just want the creamy sweet cheese part.

 

[Svetkavitsa]

Man... no one's even mentioned banana cream pie (graham cracker crust, of course)?