Pi Day

I’ve never hid the fact that I’m a DORK, a nerd, a geek, and just, well, totally not cool. It doesn’t bother me because I take total pride in being uber dorky. Anyway, anyway, the point is, I celebrate PI DAY wholeheartedly and with glee. Not because it’s food – I’m not a big pie or sweets or baked goods person – though I have to say, that doesn’t hurt the cause one bit, but because it’s Einstein’s birthday. It’s pi day. I’m a pi girl. (Or was, depending on your definition.) For all of these reasons, and because I went to a math & science high school where the AP math teacher held these elaborate celebrations on Pi Day, including requesting everyone bring in pies and then eating them and possibly reciting pi to whatever digit she could. I don’t know. I wasn’t in AP math, I was just not that inclined.

I also want to lay bare the fact that seriously, totally, truly, I am the Queen of all Dorks. A Nerd with a capital N. A geek to a lesser degree. But still, Queen of all Dorks. Yesterday found me clicking over to find out that the NY Comicon, to which I have had weekend passes since they went on sale months ago, had just announced that Stan Lee (the godfather of all comic heroes, hello!) will indeed be at this year’s comicon!!! I was so excited I dropped everything I was holding and called the BF to tell him, and then discovered that Orson Scott Card will also be there! I’m hoping against hope that Jeff Smith will be there as well – he was there last year and signed my books – but y’know, seriously, that would be my birthday, Christmas, AND … another birthday! all rolled into one. I hope I get to meet Stan Lee!!!

So, while I’m still all geek’d up, I thought I’d share what I did on Pi Day with y’all.

I ate pie.

I don’t bake, so obviously I didn’t make it! Did you guys really think…? Come on now.

After our totally disappointing uni panini at El Quinto Pino, StB (we attended high school together) and I headed over to Comfort Diner for some pi. Since we weren’t full, anyway, right?

Both of us wound up getting the mile high apple pie a la mode, and ooh boy was it GOOD. I can’t speak for pie much since I don’t eat it but once or twice a year, but the crust was lightly sweet and crisp and perfect; the apples weren’t overly soft or cloyingly sweet. Just right. And there wasn’t a lot of mush going around, the vanilla ice cream went well with the heated apple pie… as I got further back (or closer to the edge, I guess), there seemed to be a kind of saucy stuff appearing that wasn’t in the center/front/tip of the pie. I figured out that… well, I’ve never made pie- definitely not apple (ok, there was this one time I opened a can of cherry pie filling and put it between some frozen crust I bought at the store, it tasted awful and I don’t consider that making pie – I was like, 12!), but I think it was like the stuff you stew your apples in or something? It wasn’t bad, but I wasn’t sure why it wasn’t more evenly distributed. Or gotten rid of altogether because the tip/front part/center of the pie was fantastic as is, without the goopyish stuff. Not that the goop was bad, just I liked it better without. Oh well. I cleaned my plate. So YUM.

Yvo says: Supposedly there’s a special “hot chocolate pie” that is super super temporary, and a friend of mine has managed to have it here only once, but it’s fantastic? We were disappointed not to see it, but the apple pie was definitely delicious and I wouldn’t mind going back. The prices were totally reasonable and I would even go back for regular food, though it’s rare that I’m in the city and in search of diner food anymore…
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