[QUOTE=McQz;9728352][QUOTE=Dan Burkhart;9728330] Really? Ever tried to calculate pi to the last decimal,hmm?

[QUOTE=Dan Burkhart;9729560][QUOTE=McQz;9728352]I find that for my purposes "3 and a skosh" is close enough. And to answer your next question, "yes, I was in the government."

[QUOTE=McQz;9729607][QUOTE=Dan Burkhart;9729560] Har har. Obviously not with the IRS. I don't think "close enough" cuts it there.

[QUOTE=Dan Burkhart;9729560][QUOTE=McQz;9728352]A few years back, mathematicians developed an algorithm that enables them to find the next digit of pi from any point you wish to begin. Thus you can determine what the 3,204,178th digit is without having to find the first 3,204,177 digits.

There is a web page that will give you the first 1 million digits of pi, but that wastes a lot of bandwidth.

Much better is this web page, with its catchy tune:
https://pi.ytmnd.com/

[QUOTE=Dan Burkhart;9729682][QUOTE=McQz;9729607]I think they just round it to 4.

I doubt anything can save this thread after that however...

Here's a recipe for 100 year old pie crust

https://www.mixingbowl.com/message/re...3100&m=6040203

Thought you were talking about the original use of Pie crust. Back in the middle ages (1300 to 1500's) The crust was just to preserve the contents of the pie. Before eating the contents- you discarded the crust. It used to be rock hard and inedible- but would keep the contents clean and edible for weeks. Think McD's still have the recipe for the crust but they use it round some inedible contents.

Upmarket restaurant, eh! China crockery and SAUCERS. Unheard of over here
Great looking pies, too. Where are your favourite haunts, for future reference?

Well, I'm 52. I've been hanging out here "officially" for two years, and I still don't get "pie".
Someday, I hope to understand.

Think of it as the secret handshake.

Haven't heard the term "pizza pie" for a long time. But I'm sure pizza would qualify.

Sometimes my mountain biking becomes a pie ride- of the cow variety, splattered all over the bike and me.

NO! Pizza Pie does not qualify!

We've had that discussion before. Maddmaxx is not allowed to count pizza pie as his pie of choice!

Chicken/Beef Pot Pies don't count either!

Eating a dessert pie during or after a bike ride is a tradition that goes back decades in some parts of the USA. I've found references of Wisconsin cyclists partaking of this tradition going back into the 1960s. Don't know when it started.

The tradition is not exclusively a 50+ thing. Riders of all ages participated. It was also not an annual event, it was an option on every ride, but more frequently it was weekend rides.

In both Wisconsin and Minnesota there are bakeries and pie shops that have been located on popular bike trails specifically to cater to the biking community. Several communities, in the Midwest and in other regions, sponsor annual Pie Ride events. Here's a link to a page about a cycling club in Clinton, Iowa that organized around pie rides in the mid-70s:
https://www.rbbcclinton.org/history.html

I've seen references to pie rides in Massachusetts, Texas, Oregon, Montana, and other states.


I believe a Wisconsin member of this forum, rck, was instrumental in bringing the tradition to the 50+ BF forum. He or DnvrFox can supply details.

My favorite example is an establishment located in a community on the Elroy to Sparta Trail in Wisconsin - "Pie-R-Square". You know their pies have to be home baked because they really are square. They cut them into 8 delicious, wedge shaped pieces. I doubt such a business could make it in a town that small without the existance of the popular bikeing trail.

You can have it all. Enjoy!

Okay, now that makes sense. I understand -- thanks.

The only way I am going to get any pie is if I make it. It seems that the Ticos have never even heard of pie.

I have lots and lots of limes, perhaps some key lime pie is in order, but our limes are orange, but the flavor should be about the same.

It would be hard for me to pick my favourite, though. Rhubarb, strawberry, rhubarb strawberry, bumbleberry, apple, peach, mince meat, oh boy. Not real big on cream pies. If I were pinned down and had to name my favourite, I guess it would be pecan. I was lectured on the pronounciation once when ordering a piece in a Georgia truck stop. "That's picawn, honey, not pee can."

This is Fuscardi's on Eastbourne Seafront- an italian Cafe. But you have to hunt out PIE. Last saturday in London and most were going to the first restaurant they saw- Costa Coffee or Starbucks. But just round the corner is Villiers St. I knew what I was looking for and found a Greek cafe further up the road. They had several types of PIE but took their advice and had Apple and Cinnamon- with a large Black coffee. It was the best apple PIE I have ever had. But seeing as you get to Brighton-Take a trip out to Friston Forest on the coast road. Right on the edge of Seven Sisters Park there is "Exceat Restaurant" Not many pies but their home made cakes are superb. And the Sussex Teas with scones- local clotted cream and local preserves are superb.

Getting hungry now- time for a ride.

Been to Gina's in Wilton,WI,...a perfect [ahem] slice of Americana

And for those of us still around in 2016? Oh what a March day that will be.