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VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 9 months agoWikipedia 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.
victorz@lemmy.world 9 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.
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
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!)
bitwaba@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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?
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Pies don’t have to be covered, no. They can have their casing on the bottom.
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
Ok, I may have gotten a bit* carried away with the “covered” requirement, but toppings are still not fillings and it’s not a pie if it doesn’t have filling(s).
*extremely, ridiculously
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t really know what you’re referring to at this point.
I’m saying:
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.
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 9 months ago
Researching Chicago style deep dish pizzas, it would seem that I wasn’t aware of just HOW deep they are. Yep, that’s a pie. I think we’re in full agreement, actually!