# Pie throwing

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [February 12, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-throwing/959373 "2022-02-12T16:58:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-throwing/959373/6 "2022-02-12T18:13:38Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Perhaps the biggest pie fight on film was [this one from The Great Race](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCneye8GuSo).

@elfkin477’s Wikipedia link claims [that that](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-using-that-twice-in-a-row-that-that-poor-grammar/958933) movie is “known for having the largest pie fight in cinematic history,” giving this link as a cite:

> **[LIFE](https://books.google.com/books?id=R1MEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false)**
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> LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s...

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