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Monday 23 January 2017

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International Pie Day

Today is the day we celebrate things cooked in pastry !
Who doesn't love a pie !?


The centre for pies in the UK is Wigan.
Here's a typical Wigan wedding cake :


The most famous comic book pie eater is Desperate Dan from the Dandy comic book. He was created in 1937 !



Facts about pie :-

Technically, everything used to be a pie

Originally, the pie's pastry shell was designed to be used as a baking dish, storage container, and a way to serve the filling. Records show that Romans would use meats, oysters, mussels and fish as the filling and a mixture of flour, oil and water to keep it all in place. The pastry was often tough and inedible and was designed to be thrown away.
Some historians suggest it was given to the servants while the rich ate the contents.

Shakespeare has killed off two characters with pie

A recent study compiled all of Shakespeare's 74 scripted deaths throughout his 38 plays. Among them are stabbings (30), poisonings (four), be-headings (three), and two poor souls had the most creative death of all: they were baked into a pie.
In Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare's first tragedy), Titus Andronicus wreaks revenge on Queen Tamora and her family for their evil deeds by baking her sons into a pie and serving it to her.

There's a world-famous pie-eating contest in the UK

Held at Harry's Bar in Wigan, the annual World Pie Eating Championship has been going since 1992. Originally, contestants had to attempt to eat as many pies as possible within the given time limit, but this was changed in 2006 - in order to meet government healthy eating guidelines - to a race in which competitors vie to eat a single pie in the least amount of time.

The real-life Sweeney Todds 

The tale of Sweeney Todd and Mrs Lovett, the murderous duo who baked their victims in pies and then sold them, might be fictional, but it appears people have been taking inspiration from it in real life.
In 2010, a Russian chef was arrested on suspicion of killing his father-in-law, and serving his remains in pies to customers in a popular cafe for three days before anyone realised. 

Pie Jokes !
What is the best thing to put into a pie?
-Your teeth
Why did the pie cross the road?
-He was meat an potato
What is a ghost's favourite dessert?
-Boo-berry pie with I-scream
What is a maths teacher's favourite food?
-Pi
What do you get if you cross a jogger with an apple pie?
-Puff pastry
What was Isaac Newton's favourite dessert?
-Apple pi
What do you get if you cross a snake and a pie?
-A pie-thon!
What was the name of the canary that flew into the pastry dish?
-Tweetie Pie


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