It’s Pi Day. Which isn’t quite the same as pie day, but I won’t tell if you won’t. Pie seems to be a very good way to celebrate pi day.
I did try to figure out how to type the actual Greek letter pi. There are a few different shortcuts that were suggested for how to make your keyboard do this. I couldn’t get any of them to work properly. I did get a variety of letters with various different accents above them, but no pi. But I tried.
For those who may be asking why today is pi day, that’s much easier. It’s March 14. Or 3.14. The first three digits of pi. Which is a slightly stronger connection to pi than May 4 is to Star Wars, at least in my mind. So it’s a good reason to celebrate pi.
Since pi, happens to sound like pie, that would be a good reason to celebrate pi with pie.
And since most pies are round and pi is a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it’s diameter, there is even a closer tie. You can take the time to figure out the circumference of your pie by using pi. So if you have an 8 inch pie plate, it would simply be pi times the diameter, so it would be 25.12 inches around the outside. So my piece should be about… that big.
But while pi may be about how big it is around the outside, with pie, the inside counts for a lot. And there are many different insides. Cream pies, fruit pies, many different pies.
I’ll admit, I tend more toward the fruit pie. My favourite would likely have to be blueberry pie, but that would also have to be homemade blueberry pie with a homemade filling. Canned pie fillings are good, but just not quite the same. And I used to be a big fan of mince meat pie, back when family members made their own mince meat and used actual meat as part of the recipe. The fruit mixture that claims to be mince meat is okay, but again, just not quite the same.
By I intend to celebrate pi day by making it a pie day. I may have my favourites, but I haven’t met a pie I didn’t like.
