Pie

Seeing as how it is the heavyweight pie eating season, I would like to dedicate this to pie, the king of sweets, and to the infinite superiority of pie over cake.

Firstly I would like to list the reasons that pie is the duchess of deserts. Pie is the epitome of all deserts. Cake and cookies have a topping, doughnuts, Oreos, and Twinkies have filling. Brownies, and cheese cake (which is actually is another form of pie) have chocolate. Pie has all of these. Pie can be topped with every thing from a chocolate drizzle to whipped cream to ice cream. You can fill pie with everything from chocolate, to peanut butter, to fruit.

I have taken a lot heat because I love cheese cake. People will say stuff like “Well there goes your pie over cake theory.” and “You talk pie but you eat cake.” when in reality cheese cake is just another pie. It is true. Look at the facts.

Pie has a crust. Cheese cake has a crust.
Pie is served with whipped cream. Cheese cake is served with whipped cream
Pie is wonderful. Cheese cake is wonderful.

You see, cheese cake is just pie with another filling. Is not pie marvelous? To be able to change form so fluidly to (somewhere back in history) have one of its forms named for its own group.

Pie is also without season. Of you think about it the best time to eat cake, it is from May to October, with a little stint in January, while pie is eaten the year around. In the summer, everyone wants apple and berry pies, while in the winter pumpkin, cherry and chocolate have come into fashion, then in the New Year, cheese cake will come into its own, starting the cycle all over again.

Also, pie is more easily transported that cake. Think about it. If you are going to a party and you are bringing a cake, you have to either leave it in the cake pan and take along a serving platter, or you put it on the platter first and take the risk that the cake will spill on way to wherever you are going.
With pie on the other hand, all you have to do is bring the serving spatula.

Even though I feel strongly about this I fear all I have done is to maybe secure a few fence riders. For if you are a fan of pie already you have been reinforced in your beliefs, if you are a cake fan you are still a cake fan, and if you are on the fence you probably are still on the fence. Anyway thanks for reading.