pkondz
Brace yourself for immediate disintegration
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2007
More like a labyrinth…
Pit-falls and random monsters included.
There be monsters there...
Pretty sure I saw your name on the list as well.
Dang it!!!
Groucho would have been proud.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Actually if you ever get the chance to hear one, the awards ceremonies for the “Igs” make for some great listening. There are usually interesting reasons (and often right funny stories) for how the various researchers got sidetracked onto such apparently wacky research topics. And most of them end up leading to solutions or advancements on more mainstream issues. Not to mention, the presenters solution for letting a recipient know that their acceptance speech has run to long is truly classic.
Interesting.
If I ever have a spare minute...
"spare minute".... Nevermind.
And I remember most everything that you write.
So by definition…
Oh, crap...
This should reaffirm just how completely daft I am, but you asked for it.
First off, pie isn’t necessarily required to have both an upper and lower crust. So for me the category of pie also includes such things as cobblers, crumbles and buckles. But to really confuse the issue…
Pie is not a specific thing, as much as it’s a method.
Historically pies were not sweet and before the advent of sugar the purpose of the “coffin” was as a containment/serving vessel and heat distribution tool during the baking. Often the shell wasn’t really all that edible, so the contents are a better definition of what is actually pie. That content is designed to make limited resources go farther by mixing smaller amounts of various food stuffs combined with some type of extender or thickening agent. So while Chicken-pot-pie is considered a pie, chicken and dumplings is basically the same thing and is also pie. Accepting that type of categorization means that stews and chilies can also be considered pie (they can certainly be baked into a crust if desired). Since a baking vessel can substitute for the purpose of a crust, then many more types of meals can be also be categorized as pie. Shepard’s Pie has no traditional crust at all but it is still considered pie. Similarly, most any baked “casserole” would therefor meet the definition. By extrapolation that means something like Lasagna could be considered pie. And if the grain based shell of a Calzone basically defines it as a pie, then would in not also follow that something like a burrito could also be seen as being pie? As you can see there are a great many dishes that can meet the definition. This being the case…
that which I refer to as being pie is a rather expansive group of delectable culinary delights.
And I like pie!
(if there was anyone left who didn’t already think that I’d completely lost it, this right thear should put those doubts to rest)
See…
Mark was right.
Mark's still wrong.
I'm pretty much with you on all of that.
pkondz's method of eating chocolate pie when he was a kid.
Scrape all the good stuff off and eat, leaving nothing but an intact, perfectly formed pie crust behind.
Heck... Even my cat knew that.
She once went after a pie that was cooling on the counter.
She drilled a small hole in it, about the size of a silver dollar,
and ate out the entire inside.
Leaving nothing but a perfectly shaped pie...
with a small hole and a hollow shell.