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Hi Ladies.
Happy Pi day!
The sweet or savory dish called pie is thought to get its name from the Magpie. Pie evolved as a way to incorporate whatever game and veggies were handy into a neat, one-pot meal. As magpies are known for gathering knickknacks in their nests, prototypical pie chefs were known to toss just about anything edible in the savory filling.
Alice
My nan used to make them the same shape as grandads lunchbox….they fit perfectly…
im sure she never knew anything about pi squared.
(not THAT lunchbox!!!)
Pi squared is very close to g.
In other words, pie squared becomes close to gravity, which explains why you can’t stand up after eating that much PI.
Of course, my mathematics were off in my joke, because everyone knows that it’s 2 pi R which gives the circumference, but if you eat the whole area, that’s pie arse squared.
At my school, we had a tuck shop, and the boxes we kept our sandwiches in were known as tuck boxes – so you could get a square pie in there, together with your banana and a couple of plums.
Did I say something wrong?
For a moment, I thought I could feel someone spitting out their drink all over this post…
Love
Laura
Haha….as long as your plums are tucked daily into your lunchbox…what more do you need!!!!
Hi Alice…
I didn’t know it was pie day….but i did have pork pie with branston pickle for tea….
the secret is to cut the pie horizontally half way up… lift off the top half, smear the inside with pickle and put the top back on…yummy xx.
Pie eyed grace ❤️
Ahhh… the life of Pi!
Pi r2, the length of Pi , pies… the Australian go to food… square pies, apricot pies(!), salmon pies….
Where to start or rather where to stop? Pi to how many digits? How many digits do you need to eat a Pi?Pinomenal Polly
Love that film….on the lifeboat with that tiger… yikes!!!
Brilliant…did you get the recipe from Desperate Dan???
Haha….sorry, lost in translation… Desperate Dan was a comic book character…a mountain of a man….who ate cow pies…xx
Haha….THOSE are called cowpats here….i dont THINK anyone has eaten one!!!!
Ive trodden in a few…
For possibly the first (and probably last) time ever, I’m going to introduce a not-that-daft element to this… Yes, the etymology of “pie” probably comes from a reference to the “pica pica” or “margot” in old French dialect – margot providing the “Mag” bit and “pica” providing the pie. According to the RSPB, the magpies diet is based on invertebrates “such as beetles, flies, caterpillars, spiders, worms and leatherjackets.” The Vegetarian Society has no problem with the modern day usage of the term – but can we all please remember that 1) pies are usually excessive and un-necessary calories, and 2) if related to Magpies, unethical by reason of a) (usually) meat, and b) (usually) invertebrates… O.K: I realise I’m stretching a point here, but: avoid pies – go Vegetarian! Especially as the Magpies are currently making a real mess of my allotment……
Now waits for much deserved slagging off… but still says to go Vegetarian! Ethical Inga.
But the “excessive and unnecessary calories” are the best part!!
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Diana
I only need to look at my excessive waistline to Know how right you are…… Why can’t red wine be calorie free? Irritated Inga.
I wont look at the recipe, let me guess….
1. Take one cow……
Smiles, grace xx
Sorry, i forgot about you vegans…..
1. Take one vegetarian cow…..
Oooops 💚💚
It was easy to spot a desperate dan cow pie…
huge, and a thick crust…with two horns sticking through it..!!!
Exactly…so why can’t everyone eat them???…..vegans are good for you
Vegans are VERY good for you – and us lacto/ovo vegetarians are right in the same channel! A question I really, really have to ask though: I could never, ever kill an animal; killing is WRONG. You ladies who eat meat know at the back of your minds that you are indeed killing; maybe not directly, but without you, it would not happen… I couldn’t contemplate this. Please can you tell my how you can? I’m not trying to be controversial or offensive, but I genuinely cannot understand how people can do this. Sorry: please don’t be offended. Inga.
I love a good debate – especially with you, Steph! Yes – or course it’s O.K. for a lion to eat a zebra or a shark (or polar bear) to eat a fish. They don’t have the level of sentience required to decide not to! “I think, therefore I am”: I can write this note and therefore have the level of conscience required to decide NOT to kill; lions, sharks and polar bears do not. No – human beings do not have to kill to exist: the fact that I am still alive and able to send this note proves that. Yes; I realise that there are many people who do not have the option to decide what to eat, but if the “food chain” had not been corrupted in the first place (remember – roughly 10 lb of vegetable matter is needed to produce 1 lb of animal matter) they wouldn’t have to make that decision – there would be enough vegetarian food in the first place, and in not that long a time, the production sequence could be put back to it’s more natural state whereby those extra 9 lb could be given straight to the needy humans. Nature can indeed be raw and cruel: homo sapiens have the choice not to be. So why shouldn’t we? By the way – always lovely to hear from you! Inga: XOXOXO
P.S. Don’t get me on to the NEVER EXISTED god…
Well…… no. My existence does NOT prove the need for any of my ancestors to have been either carnivorous or omnivorous – or are you saying that a vegetarian/vegan diet ensures an early death? If so, please explain how come I am able to send this note…
No-one claims Fred Flintstone corrupted any food chains (but he did contribute to the extinction of the woolly mammoth…) And what he or Barney Rubble did then doesn’t alter the fact that neither thee nor me needs to do it now! (Humans used to bait bears, eat Dodos and keep people as slaves based on the colour of their skin. Don’t you think that we should have grown out of that by now?) Fred could have survived back then – in the same way we do now! The only difference that may have occurred was the potential for human migration from East Africa to have occurred at a slightly slower rate; and that’s supposed to be a problem? If Fred wanted to kill a mammoth – well, doesn’t that just make him the same as you? If he had – and was able to process – the information (including the horrific effects that meat eating is having on the environment) then wouldn’t he have also realised that livestock farming is NOT a good idea? What did Fred eat in the winter? Well, when hominids were restricted to Africa, it wasn’t so much of a problem, was it? Yes, the migration to Europe and Asia posed new problems – but that is looking at what happened a long, long time ago – NOT what the reality is now! And when a more “formal” style of agriculture started is of little importance; I have to ask why you feel my family history is from the “rich west”: no, I’m not living in Yemen at the moment, being bombed out of existence by the Saudi, British and U.S. authorities, but I’m rather glad that I’m not! People living in Yemen, Tigre, Occupied Palestine and the like may not have much of a choice: you and I DO.
Militant Inga!!!
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