Pie Facts

•First type of pie was rye-crusted goat cheese
•Pie has been around since the 12th century
•Greeks invented pie but the romans where 1st to use it consistently
•There are thousands and thousands pie recipes
•The saying as american as apple pie is actually from England
•Pie was brought here by the Pilgrims.
•Pie was NOT served at the 1st thanksgiving
•The National Pie Day is January 23rd
•American settlers called there pie ingredients "timber"
•The word "pie" comes from a Northern European bird called "magpie"
•馅饼 is Chinese for pie
•Apple pie is the most popular pie
•1 out of 4 people perfer Apple pie
•The top 4 most popular pies (no order are APPLE, LEMON, CHERRY, AND CHOCLATE)
•Shoo-fly pie was originally used to sit on windowsills to attract flies away from the kitchen
•87 percent of pie eaters prefer it homemade
•Streusel, tart, turnover, crumble pastie, oggie, piraski, piragie, patty and pierogi are diffrent names for pie
•The average american eats 6 slices of pie a year
•Boston Cream Pie is a cake, not a pie
•More than one-third of Americans have eaten pie in bed
•7% Americans who have passed off a store-bought pie as homemade
•9% Americans who prefer to eat their pie crust-first
•90% Americans who agree that a slice of pie represents one of the simple pleasures in life
•113 million Number of Americans who have eaten pie for breakfast
•75 million Number of Americans who prefer to drink milk with their pie
•32% Americans who prefer no crust on top of their pie
•18% Men who say their wife makes the best homemade pie
•2% Women who say their husband makes the best homemade pie
•The first mention of a fruit pie in print is from Robert Green’s Arcadia (1590): “thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.”
• The largest pie weighs over 2,000 pounds
• Fruit pies were commonly eaten as part of breakfast in the 19th century
• Pie used to be crustless

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