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• Buy an extra pie at the grocery store and give it to the person in line behind you.
• Take a pie to a new neighbor to say "hi"
• Bring some pie to work
• Make a pie with your kids
• Invite friends over for afternoon pie.

And here's some pie trivia:

• The first mention of a fruit pie in print was in Robert Green's "Arcadia" (1590)
• In England, Oliver Cromwell banned the eating of pie in 1644, declaring it a pagan form of pleasure. The ban was lifted in 1660.
• The airplane Buddy Holly died in was named "American Pie."
• In America, fruit pie was a common breakfast food in the 1800s.
• Shoo-fly pie (a wet-bottom molasses pie) was used to attract flies from the kitchen (yum).

There you go. Your random info for the day. Don't you feel more... informed for it?

(All info found in the dead tree addition of today's Belleville News Democrat. If it's wrong, blame Suzanne Boyle.)

// posted by Beth @ 12:23 PM |