The NYtimes recently covered, with pretty much the entirety of their Food page, pies. Among various articles was this one for stack pie.
i'd heard of the Appalachian wedding tradition of stack cake; for the wedding cake, guests bring layers (1/couple or family), and those get stacked at the wedding, interspersed with apple butter. i really, really like the interactive nature of such a tradition. Stack pie seems to build on this, so-to-speak, in that it's from the same region with the same prep method. Also, can you imagine the flavor combinations? Cream pie on top, followed by a strawberry or fruit pie, and a creamcheese pie/cheese cake on the bottom?
Similarly but not, Bryan mentioned a sort of dessert terducken, where there's a cookie baked into a cake, baked into a pie. i've also found evidence of cherpumple, or cherry/pumpkin/apple pie (this one kind of makes my head hurt).
Speaking of cherries, my PI's out of town this weekend, but left a note up in lab saying that her cherry tree was 'dead ripe' and needed to be harvested. So i find myself with a double handful of pie cherries. The fruit themselves will unquestionably be made into pie, but i hate to waste anything like free cherry pits with a story. Online websites report cherry pit-flavored vinegar, and cherry-pit infused vodka. My Polish self can't let an account of vodka pass unnoticed, of course, which brings us to the interesting quandary of cyanide levels in stone fruit pits and other fruit seeds; it's not necessarily swallowing the seeds alone, but more the crushing that's a problem. Further investigation yielded this quantitative (and very nicely laid out) post; " So if you have a case of the suicidal munchies, 30 apricot kernels will be the starting point to get you looking down the tunnel towards the light. Thirty kernels probably won't kill you, but you'll be in a very bad state where you'll most likely be vomiting and hyperventilate with abdominal pains as you slowly suffocate which will cause you a great deal of anxiety. ". (The second part discusses how to break down cyanide, but then sort of turns into a lecture on backing up claims with research) In short, maybe not so much with the cherry pit vodka.
And finally, since we're on the topic of questionable beverages, today is the 4th of July, and Jack is having a thing. i'd mentioned wanting ice cream floats, and she somehow remembered that i (or someone) favored floats with a red soda. Yes! Summer as a child tasted like ice cream floats made with Blue Bell home made vanilla ice cream and Big Red soda. (Supposedly, red cream soda is only a thing in the American south.) i tried to explain the flavor, ending with, 'There's a lot going on in that beverage'. But, it doesn't taste like cherry despite the redness; we shall have to see what the Yankees think of this quintessential summer treat. While looking at the wiki site, Jack noted that there's an energy drink called Big Jak, which lead to the discovery of this rather funny review/ flash site rant which opened with " I see you're admiring my registered sex offender mustache halloween costume. Based on my conversation with police this year, it was one of the more convincing costumes they'd seen. " Awesome.
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