@f00l I am kinda partial to key lime pie, but it has to be real lime flavoring, not that fake supersweet lime.
I am also partial to Charlie Chan, rather than Philip Marlowe. While I get that the movie series was soooo culturally stereotypical, I love #1 son, and the movies evoke memories of me coming home from college and staying up late, watching black and white movies/shows with my mom – Sherlock Holmes, with Basil Rathbone, Charlie Chan, The Avengers, with Diana Rigg, etc…
@f00l Maxwell Smart – my poor kid is being introduced to all of the crazy shows we watched. More to show the kid what fears people had then and how things that were futuristic then are real now… the shoe phone, really? the kid will probably make one! (Yes, we are very intellectual in our viewing selections (not!!))…
I wish I could remember what brand of frozen blueberry pie I bought years ago because it was so delicious. Better than any fresh one I’ve had. Took almost an hour to cook from frozen and then you are supposed to wait before eating. That wait was always torture.
I love those fluffy Oreo pies.
Apple pie is good.
Pecan pie is good as long as it’s not 90% corn syrup filling and 10% pecan.
@RiotDemon I bake lots of pies, have to be in the mood to do it though – my kids love my chocolate chip cookie pie
I think I have made all of the above from scratch, minus the blueberry pie. Someone once a long time ago said blueberry pie was hard to make, so I have never tried. I bet it isn’t, but no one in my house would enjoy it, so not worth the effort.
@mikibell When I was young, my mother used to freeze blueberries and cherries when they were in season. Then, in the winter she would make a cherry/blueberry pie combining the two fruits. Not too tart from the cherries and not too sweet from the blueberries. Just right.
I Love Pi (e)!
Tied for first place:
Cherry, blueberry, apple, strawberry/rhubarb and peach.
I also like: Pumpkin (during the holidays)
The best thing is that we grow all the above items right here on our property.
ps… I like my wife’s Pecan pie also (we don’t grow pecans)
@daveinwarsh I think I need to come live with you!! I am not partial to rhubarb, which if I remember correctly is a sour taste and I love sour… smh… I think it is a texture thing though…
@mikibell Yes. The rhubarb is sour. That’s why you also put those fresh sweet strawberries in the pie. The texture of rhubarb pulled fresh from the garden is great! Our pumpkin pie is so good because we bake our own pumpkins for the pie.
No one stays here unless they do chores like weeding, cleaning chicken coop, etc… lol…
@daveinwarsh I miss being able to grow rhubarb, but it just doesn’t work here in central Alabama…
Thinking of getting back in the ‘chicken’ business this year mainly to have something to process the grass clippings from the (one acre) yard into something more useful that just a pile of grass clippings that need to be turned by hand to get them to compost. I have also used them in a portable pen in the past to weed and turn up the garden areas during the winter. Guess I will see if the local Tractor Supply store still has chicks in a couple of weeks after we do spring break in Orlando with the grandkids… some many projects… so little time (of which WAY too much gets ‘wasted’ here)
edit: hahahahaha I used to show screens like that to people who asked me why I was surfing the web, and I would say, because I am doing work in this session…
I made pecan pie this weekend “from scratch” (i.e. made the crust too).
Bought the ingredients during Feb Natl Pie month but no time to make (I also have Granny Smith apples I bought then that if still good I’ll try the pi pie this weekend (make apple slices and top crust into pie number shapes)).
Googled recipes (no family recipes passed down for generations).
Baked til it looked done (recipe didn’t say anything other than 45-60 minutes so I kept checking 45, 50, 55 til crust edge was getting dark brown but pecan filling looked no different than at 45)
Refrigerated about 3 hours (til post dinner).
Inside was not runny but very oozy. Tasted fine but anyone have suggestions for what I did wrong that it wasn’t a firmer filling?
@mollama My wife bakes pies for a charity auction every year. After many years of this, her pies have quite the following & people show up just for her pies. She’s sold some for $100. Her Pecan Pie is the most requested (though she says it’s the easiest).
She uses a recipe from an old 1976 Better Homes Cookbook. I’d ask her more about it, but she’s out of town for a few days. She always says the crust is the hardest thing to get perfect. She’s got many of her recipes on this computer, so here’s pie crust:
PIE CRUST For 2 Pies.
4 cups flour
3 cubes cold butter
1 ½ tsp. salt
Approx. ½ cup ice water
Mix together flour, butter and salt until crumbly. Add enough water for stiff dough. DO NOT OVER-MIX!!! Let rest for 20 minutes in refrig. before rolling out. (Or store in freezer or refer until ready to use.) Divide in half for 2 pies.
Everything must be kept cool, she says.
A pecan pie would need only 1/4 the recipe, as it has only a bottom crust.
She also always makes pies 2 at a time and will NEVER cook a pie in anything but a glass pie dish.
I hope this helps…
Here’s a recipe just like the Cookbook one:
–Southern Pecan Pie–
–ingredients:
3 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
dash salt
½ cup dark corn syrup
½ cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup melted butter
1 cup pecan halves (she adds more)
–instructions:
Preheat oven to 350°.
Beat 3 eggs thoroughly with 2/3 cup sugar, dash salt, ½ cup dark corn syrup, ½ cup light corn syrup, and 1/3 cup melted butter.
Add 1 cup pecan halves. Pour into 9-inch unbaked pastry shell.
Bake at 350° for 50 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean. Cool.
There are a couple of very simple methods for approximating pi that I find… oddly enjoyable, and that I tend to have implemented in every programming language I know anything about and on every programmable calculator I have ever owned.
One of these is the Monte Carlo simulation. Monte Carlo simulations are used for all sorts of fun stuff beyond echoing ‘3.14’, and essentially revolve around the idea of ‘figure out a probability distribution, then randomly throw information at it a whole boatload of times’.
Since we know pi is the relationship between circumference and diameter, we can randomly throw a bunch of points at a plane and work backward — a pi-like percentage of these points will fit our knowledge of the rules of pi. We’re sort of making a bunch of data points do the other parts of π=C/d and solving for π.
Calling an audible: cheesecake is pie. It’s baked in a pie tin with a crust on bottom and no icing. It’s like parking on the driveway and driving on the parkway: name is irrelevant to what it is.
And I’m out of town on business and the restaurant I can get to only has cheesecake, no “pie” pie. So I am having the cheesecake to celebrate pi day (and no other reason, therefore the calories don’t count).
@chienfou
Many, if they’d bothered to look at the number string. In a photo like that, most people don’t visually parse the numbers without some prompting that it might matter. I wouldn’t, unless I just happened to notice.
There is a new restaurant in Montgomery that is part of the Pies&Pints chain. Dozens of different brews (on tap as well as in bottles/cans) and a ton of great pizzas. Definitely my kind of pie!
Also that I had pizza pie for lunch and home-made blueberry pie after dinner yesterday. If only I had started the day with pie for breakfast! Sadly, I find no emojis for pie. Maybe this one is for pizza?
/image pi
Key Lime
Philip Marlowe
/giphy pi
@f00l I am kinda partial to key lime pie, but it has to be real lime flavoring, not that fake supersweet lime.
I am also partial to Charlie Chan, rather than Philip Marlowe. While I get that the movie series was soooo culturally stereotypical, I love #1 son, and the movies evoke memories of me coming home from college and staying up late, watching black and white movies/shows with my mom – Sherlock Holmes, with Basil Rathbone, Charlie Chan, The Avengers, with Diana Rigg, etc…
@mikibell
I was thinking of the books, tho the Marlowe films are great.
If you wanna go with films, Jack Nicholson is Chinatown was great. But not as a series.
TV. Hmmmm. Perhaps Rockford?
Urban fantasy: Prob Harry Dresden
Re Key Lime: The kind I’ve had fresh-made in Florida.
@f00l Maxwell Smart – my poor kid is being introduced to all of the crazy shows we watched. More to show the kid what fears people had then and how things that were futuristic then are real now… the shoe phone, really? the kid will probably make one! (Yes, we are very intellectual in our viewing selections (not!!))…
@mikibell
I love Get Smart. I love Gilligan’s Island. I love Hogan’s Heros. I’m very intellectual as you can see…
@f00l You would like the cartoon Recess, if you like cartoons – it is a remake of Hogan’s Heros! I got my kids hooked on it
The only type of pie I’ve ever baked is pumpkin.
I wish I could remember what brand of frozen blueberry pie I bought years ago because it was so delicious. Better than any fresh one I’ve had. Took almost an hour to cook from frozen and then you are supposed to wait before eating. That wait was always torture.
I love those fluffy Oreo pies.
Apple pie is good.
Pecan pie is good as long as it’s not 90% corn syrup filling and 10% pecan.
Key lime pie can be pretty tasty.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a cherry pie.
@RiotDemon
@RiotDemon I bake lots of pies, have to be in the mood to do it though – my kids love my chocolate chip cookie pie
I think I have made all of the above from scratch, minus the blueberry pie. Someone once a long time ago said blueberry pie was hard to make, so I have never tried. I bet it isn’t, but no one in my house would enjoy it, so not worth the effort.
@mikibell When I was young, my mother used to freeze blueberries and cherries when they were in season. Then, in the winter she would make a cherry/blueberry pie combining the two fruits. Not too tart from the cherries and not too sweet from the blueberries. Just right.
@mikibell recipes are required
/image pi pie
I’m personally partial to apple and pumpkin.
/image apple pi pie
/image pumpkin pi pie
@narfcake OMG, I have to make the number shaped apple pie… the kid would LOVE it… he wouldn’t eat it, but he would love it!
@narfcake Ow. Don’t you hate that the PI pie is missing digits? I once saw a poster in a math classroom that was wrong, too. Sigh.
@sligett I don’t know about “hate”, but strongly annoyed at least.
@narfcake Ah, yeah, it bothers me more than it should.
@narfcake Absolutely love the last one!
I Love Pi (e)!
Tied for first place:
Cherry, blueberry, apple, strawberry/rhubarb and peach.
I also like: Pumpkin (during the holidays)
The best thing is that we grow all the above items right here on our property.
ps… I like my wife’s Pecan pie also (we don’t grow pecans)
@daveinwarsh ugh, how did I forget peach pie. Yum!
@RiotDemon
They have peach festivals around here. Growing up, we did cobbler. But Peach Pie will work. : )
@f00l my mom was born in Georgia. Cobbler was what I grew up on. I won’t turn down a pie though.
@f00l Yes, peach is maybe best as a cobbler. Also, an apple crisp is pretty darn good. We grow really great peaches right here in Washington state!
@daveinwarsh I think I need to come live with you!! I am not partial to rhubarb, which if I remember correctly is a sour taste and I love sour… smh… I think it is a texture thing though…
@mikibell Yes. The rhubarb is sour. That’s why you also put those fresh sweet strawberries in the pie. The texture of rhubarb pulled fresh from the garden is great! Our pumpkin pie is so good because we bake our own pumpkins for the pie.
No one stays here unless they do chores like weeding, cleaning chicken coop, etc… lol…
@daveinwarsh I miss being able to grow rhubarb, but it just doesn’t work here in central Alabama…
Thinking of getting back in the ‘chicken’ business this year mainly to have something to process the grass clippings from the (one acre) yard into something more useful that just a pile of grass clippings that need to be turned by hand to get them to compost. I have also used them in a portable pen in the past to weed and turn up the garden areas during the winter. Guess I will see if the local Tractor Supply store still has chicks in a couple of weeks after we do spring break in Orlando with the grandkids… some many projects… so little time (of which WAY too much gets ‘wasted’ here)
I have 3.1415928 inches of ice here
@CaptAmehrican but are you feeling better???
@CaptAmehrican
Why so imprecise? : )
@mikibell yes but heading out to move ice ask again in a few hours.
@f00l because I am irrational with numbers
@CaptAmehrican
/giphy approved!
I’m imaginary with them.
@CaptAmehrican I have an irrational fear of numbers!!
@mikibell
Just think of them as a theory.
/giphy theory
@CaptAmehrican I have to go clear the intake pipe for the stove… just noticed it is almost covered… grrr
While I can take care of myself, I much rather let the hubby do all of this!!
@f00l Theoretically, I am irrational?
edit: hahahahaha I used to show screens like that to people who asked me why I was surfing the web, and I would say, because I am doing work in this session…
@mikibell
Theoretically, we are all irrational. Practically, also true.
/giphy irrational
We are also all imaginary.
/giphy imaginary
@mikibell Intake pipe cleared out – officially, the snow is high enough to sink into the top of my boots!!! grrrrrr
I still really like this one that I gave to my son who is an electrical engineer and total geek… it’s called
reflections on pi
I only like 2 kinds if pie. Hot and Cold.
/giphy hot and cold pie
I made pecan pie this weekend “from scratch” (i.e. made the crust too).
Bought the ingredients during Feb Natl Pie month but no time to make (I also have Granny Smith apples I bought then that if still good I’ll try the pi pie this weekend (make apple slices and top crust into pie number shapes)).
Googled recipes (no family recipes passed down for generations).
Baked til it looked done (recipe didn’t say anything other than 45-60 minutes so I kept checking 45, 50, 55 til crust edge was getting dark brown but pecan filling looked no different than at 45)
Refrigerated about 3 hours (til post dinner).
Inside was not runny but very oozy. Tasted fine but anyone have suggestions for what I did wrong that it wasn’t a firmer filling?
@mollama My wife bakes pies for a charity auction every year. After many years of this, her pies have quite the following & people show up just for her pies. She’s sold some for $100. Her Pecan Pie is the most requested (though she says it’s the easiest).
She uses a recipe from an old 1976 Better Homes Cookbook. I’d ask her more about it, but she’s out of town for a few days. She always says the crust is the hardest thing to get perfect. She’s got many of her recipes on this computer, so here’s pie crust:
PIE CRUST For 2 Pies.
4 cups flour
3 cubes cold butter
1 ½ tsp. salt
Approx. ½ cup ice water
Mix together flour, butter and salt until crumbly. Add enough water for stiff dough. DO NOT OVER-MIX!!! Let rest for 20 minutes in refrig. before rolling out. (Or store in freezer or refer until ready to use.) Divide in half for 2 pies.
Everything must be kept cool, she says.
A pecan pie would need only 1/4 the recipe, as it has only a bottom crust.
She also always makes pies 2 at a time and will NEVER cook a pie in anything but a glass pie dish.
I hope this helps…
Here’s a recipe just like the Cookbook one:
–Southern Pecan Pie–
–ingredients:
3 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
dash salt
½ cup dark corn syrup
½ cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup melted butter
1 cup pecan halves (she adds more)
–instructions:
Preheat oven to 350°.
Beat 3 eggs thoroughly with 2/3 cup sugar, dash salt, ½ cup dark corn syrup, ½ cup light corn syrup, and 1/3 cup melted butter.
Add 1 cup pecan halves. Pour into 9-inch unbaked pastry shell.
Bake at 350° for 50 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean. Cool.
@daveinwarsh
I’m dying of longing now.
Fortunately, a few places around here make fresh pies the handmade way. So that I can be lazy and fantasize and try not to go there.
@daveinwarsh you and your lovely wife are wonderful people. Thanks for sharing!!
Happy pi day, now go buy this sloppily drawn shirt.
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/the-pirat?ref=sh_cnt_odet_pic_2
@Ignorant I did. Alas, they messed up printing it.
So I’m wearing irrational pi. Which also has messed up printing. 
(Yes, it took me over a year to do laundry.)
@narfcake haha thanks. You sure it wasn’t just my messy writing?
@Ignorant It was printed fuzzy.
/image Mazda 3.14159
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/count-to-pi
@narfcake I’m wearing that shirt.
@msklzannie
My shirt-of-the-day is:
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/irrational-pi
@narfcake I usually wear http://shirt.woot.com/offers/zu-chongzhis-estimate?ref=cnt_ctlg_dgn_37
@msklzannie My copy is … somewhere.
Pi is wrong so I celebrate Tau Day on June 28.
My favorite pie is the Camper Van Beethoven album Key Lime Pie.
/youtube Camper Van Beethoven Sweethearts
There are a couple of very simple methods for approximating pi that I find… oddly enjoyable, and that I tend to have implemented in every programming language I know anything about and on every programmable calculator I have ever owned.
One of these is the Monte Carlo simulation. Monte Carlo simulations are used for all sorts of fun stuff beyond echoing ‘3.14’, and essentially revolve around the idea of ‘figure out a probability distribution, then randomly throw information at it a whole boatload of times’.
Since we know pi is the relationship between circumference and diameter, we can randomly throw a bunch of points at a plane and work backward — a pi-like percentage of these points will fit our knowledge of the rules of pi. We’re sort of making a bunch of data points do the other parts of π=C/d and solving for π.
Here is a probably better explanation with a fun visual.
Happy π day!
3.14159265
I just barely made it into “You’re a dick” territory:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index.php?date=031208
@dave
Off the top of my head, I make it into the second category, but give me a couple of seconds longer, and I’m in the 3rd category.
Since Meh isn’t letting me post it directly (even with part of the text, I still get an error message), y’all will need to be content with this link:
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/digits.html
Calling an audible: cheesecake is pie. It’s baked in a pie tin with a crust on bottom and no icing. It’s like parking on the driveway and driving on the parkway: name is irrelevant to what it is.
And I’m out of town on business and the restaurant I can get to only has cheesecake, no “pie” pie. So I am having the cheesecake to celebrate pi day (and no other reason, therefore the calories don’t count).
@mollama
/giphy excellent
@elimanningface
/image “purple pi”
@elimanningface wonder how many people would have recognized this string if it wasn’t in this thread…
@chienfou
Many, if they’d bothered to look at the number string. In a photo like that, most people don’t visually parse the numbers without some prompting that it might matter. I wouldn’t, unless I just happened to notice.
Nice idea for a conceptual visual, tho.
There is a new restaurant in Montgomery that is part of the Pies&Pints chain. Dozens of different brews (on tap as well as in bottles/cans) and a ton of great pizzas. Definitely my kind of pie!
I meant to mention https://www.raspberrypi.org/ .
Also that I had pizza pie for lunch and home-made blueberry pie after dinner yesterday. If only I had started the day with pie for breakfast! Sadly, I find no emojis for pie. Maybe this one is for pizza?