For many people, like this SFist editor, the thought of warm fruit and lard-based crust makes for a disastrous end to any meal. The cake vs. pie war, as you know, is a divided one. But for many others, pie is a tasty treat to be celebrated. Enter National Pi Day, a time to celebrate pizzas, the aforementioned dessert treat, or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (i..e., Pi or π, 3.14 = 3/14). more ›

Over at Inside Scoop today, Michael Bauer interviewed Tara Evans, a staunch pie advocate and part of the Pie Extremist Group. What is the Pie Extremist Group? In Evans own words, "We meet, and eat pie. The Pie Extremist Group has only one statement: Pie=Love." more ›

It seems the cake fans didn't even show up to vote in our not-at-all biased poll weighing cake vs. pie. (Or rather, they were mostly relegated to the write-in section.) Meanwhile the pie fans were eager to defend the versatile baked good with about a third of the vote going to "Any pie, any time." Add in the non-meat pie votes and over 53% of you support pie. more ›

Last week we asked for your Thanksgiving Dinner Pet Peeves, and among other things, the post promptly started some dispute between pro-Pie and anti-Pie factions. While at least some portion *cough* of SFist editorial staff was against "Warm fruit" in general, one reader even took to the tipline to proclaim very succinctly: "Pie is Disgusting." more ›

Wow. OK. At an appearance onstage at South San Francisco Day in Orange Memorial Park on Saturday, a PETA member got up on stage and smacked a guy dressed as Ronald McDonald in the face with a vegan custard pie. more ›