Pie Fun Facts

Pie Fun Facts
Approx. $700 million in pies (approx. 186 million units) are sold in grocery stores
every year. This does not include restaurants, food service or price clubs, only
grocery stores. If you lined up the number of pies sold at U.S. grocery stores in
one year, they would circle the globe and then some.
According to a 2008 survey by Crisco and American Pie Council:
Nearly one out of five (19%) of Americans prefer apple pie, followed by
pumpkin (13%), pecan (12%), banana cream (10%) and cherry (9%)
Pie just isnt for after-dinner dessert. Thirty-five percent of Americans say
theyve had pies for breakfast. Pies as lunch (66%) and midnight snacks
(59%) also have a popular following.
When asked what dessert Americans would prefer a friend or family member
bring to their house for a holiday dinner, pie was the winner with 29%. Cake
(17%) and cookies (15%) rounded out the top-three spots.
Pumpkin pie was first introduced to the holiday table at the pilgrims second
Thanksgiving in 1623.
Pie was not always Americas favorite dessert in the 19th Century, fruit pies
were a common breakfast food eaten before the start of a long day.
According to a 2008 Pie Slice of Life Survey, conducted by Schwans Consumer
Brands North America, Inc., Carol Brady of The Brady Bunch was picked by 40%
of survey respondents as the TV mom that would bake the best pie. The Cosby
Shows Claire Huxtable was second with 22%, Desperate Houswives Bree Van de
Camp was third with 16 percent, Everybody Loves Raymonds Debra Barone was
fourth with 13% while The Simpsons Marge Simpson came in fifth with 8%.
The same survey also revealed that when asked Who Makes the Best Pie?, Mom
rates highly (27%), and store bought convenience pie came in a close second with
a 26% slice of the pie beating out Grandma who garnered 17%.
This 2006 Four Points Pie Portrait is an examination of how Americans enjoy
their signature dessert, in honor of Four Points by Sheratons simple pleasures
offerings: pie in all its restaurants, express pie via room service.
Pie By the Numbers

36 million Number of Americans who identify apple pie as their favorite
47%
Americans for whom the word comforting comes to mind when
they think of pie
6 million
Number of American men ages 35-54 who have eaten the last
slice of pie and denied it
27%
Americans who believe chocolate pie is the most romantic to
share with someone special
1 in 5
Proportion of Americans who have eaten an entire pie by
themselves
113 million Number of Americans who have eaten pie for breakfast
75 million Number of Americans who prefer to drink milk with their pie
32%
Americans who prefer no crust on top of their pie
90%
Americans who agree that a slice of pie represents one of the
simple pleasures in life
9%
Americans who prefer to eat their pie crust-first
7%
Americans who have passed off a store-bought pie as homemade
18%
Men who say their wife makes the best homemade pie
2%
Women who say their husband makes the best homemade pie
Pie Personalities
If you love
You are likely to describe yourself as
Apple Pie
Pecan Pie
Chocolate Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Independent, realistic and compassionate

Thoughtful and analytical
Loving
Funny and independent
Pie Preferences
More than one-third of Americans have eaten pie in bed
Nearly one in four women believe that they make the best pie better than
Mom or Grandma
More than one-third of Americans have craved pie in the middle of the night
The first mention of a fruit pie in print is from Robert Greens Arcadia (1590):
thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.
The wet bottom molasses pie, Shoo-fly pie, was used to attract flies from the
kitchen.
Oliver Cromwell banned the eating of pie in 1644, declaring it a pagan form of
pleasure. For 16 years, pie eating and making went underground until the
Restoration leaders lifted the ban on pie in 1660.

The wealthy English were known for their Surprise Pies in which live creatures
would pop out when the pie was cut open.
At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas.
As easy as pie is an American expression. In the 1890s, pie was a common
slang expression meaning anything easy, a cinch; the expression easy as pie
stemmed quite readily from that.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was named the American Pie.
Boston Cream Pie is a cake, not a pie.
Pies are favorite props for humor, particularly when aimed at the pompous.
Throwing a pie in a person's face has been a staple of film comedy since the early
days of the medium, and real-life pranksters have taken to targeting politicians
and celebrities with their pies, an act called pieing.
State Pies:
Key Lime pie was just adopted in the state of Florida as the official pie in
2006.
The state of Vermont adopted apple pie as the official state pie in 1999.

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Independent, realistic and compassionate

Restoration leaders lifted the ban on pie in 1660.

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