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Not a joke.  Today really is National Pie Day.

Here's my favorite pie, a consequence of me being raised by southerners:

 Pecan Pie.  The world's most awesome pie.

There is also a radioactive version.

Yes, an unholy concoction of corn syrup, sugar, butter and a few nuts and some flour, it's the closest that a human being can get to being able to mainline sugar.  And what would be the fun of doing that?  Sugar's only fun when you can taste it.

At any rate, regardless of your no doubt inferior choice in pie compared to mine, this is National Pie Day, and today we celebrate all pies as being worthy of worship and veneration.  For more information on this exciting day, which really ought to be a national holiday, you can visit the American Pie Council (no, I am not making this up) which has all kinds of exciting pie recipies and pie-related information.  You can even sign up for their newsletter, the quarterly Pie Times.  Again, I am not making this up. 

You can be a pie hero.  Per the Pie Council:

"To celebrate National Pie Day share the warmth of the ultimate "comfort food" by giving the gift of pie to a friend or neighbor. Your generosity will be long remembered."

There is a National Pie Competition (I'd love to see the contestants), a Pie Industry Seminar, which in all seriousness would probably be quite interesting, and The Great American Pie Festival.  

I could not let today slip by without a mention of our famous local piemakers, the Julian Pie Company.  While they truck in the quintessentially American staple of apple pie, instead of the obviously superior pecan, I must give them recognition for making a really, really good apple pie.  How good is it?  Well, I've driven forty miles on narrow mountain roads to get a slice.  Yeah, it's that good. 

 

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