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• VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wikipedia is sometimes wrong, though. This is the relevant definition:

  A baked food composed of a pastry shell **filled with **fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust

  Meaning that a flat pizza wouldn’t count (those are toppings, not fillings) but a calzone technically would.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Read further. The page also says the crust can be on the bottom and the filling on top/inside, as well as crust on top, filling underneath, or both (calzone). So a deep dish pizza is a pie, technically.

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    • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The page also says the crust can be on the bottom and the filling on top

      This is “literally can mean figuratively” level lunacy. If it’s not covered and doesn’t have FILLINGS rather than TOPPINGS, it’s simply not a pie.

      Next you’re gonna tell me that a hotdog is a sandwich (please fucking don’t!)

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      • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If it’s not covered and doesn’t have FILLINGS rather than TOPPINGS, it’s simply not a pie.

        Where does that put key lime pie and lemon meringue pie? Or pumpkin pie and pecan pie? Are they not pies because they’re not covered?

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t really know what you’re referring to at this point.

        I’m saying:

        • A regular flat pizza is not a pie. It does not have a casing, and the “filling” is a topping, as you say.
        • A (Chicago-style) deep-dish pizza is a pie (more-so than a pizza in my opinion but whatever) because it has a bottom crust with filling on top (a pie according to Wikipedia). That’s not lunacy. It’s right there on Wikipedia, with even a link to Chicago-style deep-dish pizza.
        • A calzone is a pie because it has crust both on top and on the bottom (surrounding the filling), as well as filling inside.

        This is not “lunacy”. It’s just reading a definition and interpreting things to fit the definition. 🤷‍♂️ If you think that’s lunacy I’d hate to tell you about Pluto.

        I’m going to refrain from talking about hotdogs, because I’ve yet to look up the definition of a sandwich, but I’d rather not at this point lol.

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