Casual Pie Day

When I heard that Monday is Casual Pie Day, I was really excited to celebrate. I mean, there is nothing better than a pie that takes such little cooking or preparation that its considered casual. Kinda like those yummy pudding pies that you just pour into a readymade graham cracker crust and then devour like you never heard the word diet.

Casual pies are the kind you can hold in one hand while flipping the TV remote, eat from a little cardboard tube while driving, and take to bed with you without worrying about making a mess on comforter.

Casual pies are those that take little thought to create, require practically no culinary skills and can be whipped up quicker than a bag of Cheetos disappears at a weight Watcher Convention.

I tell you now, that's my kind of pie. Creating it is not where I want to focus my time. The pure, perfect joy of a casual pie is eating it. Plain and simple.

Another true advantage of a casual pie is they tend to be inexpensive and adapt to households of poor and rich alike. It is not unusual to find casual pie on the menu along side Alma's Caviar or white truffles. Yet, it is also quite popular served after hot dogs or a fried bologna sandwich. Casual Pie is every man's dessert. And what else boasts such an honor?

I plan to mix up some casual pies myself and be lazy all day and eat them. No fork, spoon, or knife is required. Casual pie is a finger food in every sense of the word.

What? Oh...

Sorry, folks.

Just found out that it is not Casual Pie day.

It is Casual Pi Day.

 "Pi is the relationship of a circle's circumference to its diameter. No matter how large or small a circle is, the proportion of the distance around the circle to the distance across its widest part is EXACTLY the same!

That exact number starts off 3.14159265...and goes on for bajillions of non-repeating digits. Because pi starts with 3.14, we celebrate Pi Day on 3/14, or March 14th.

But today is not that date. Why are we celebrating Casual Pi Day ?

Well, the other name for the day gives us a hint—it's Pi Approximation Day.

It's hard to be exact about pi when the decimal digits go on forever (and don't even repeat). So we have to use approximate numbers when we actually use pi, and a really approximate way of expressing the approximation is the fraction 22/7. " 

( source: http://every-day-is-special.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-22-2012-casual-pi-day.html)

Somehow Casual Pie day just seems so much better. Don't you agree?