# The Eternal Question: Cake...or Pie?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 29, 2001, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670 "2001-06-29T23:37:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2001, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/1 "2001-06-29T23:37:04Z")
There can be only one.
Imagine this: You are hungry. Not ravenously in need of food, but you feel as though you have just eaten a decent dinner. You still have room, though. Room for…dessert.
In front of you are two tables. On one table sits a cake, pristene in its delicate beauty. It is your classic birthday cake: fluffy, slightly moist, one half vanilla and one half chocolate. It is decorated with a thick layer of airy, sugar-filled frosting. It even has those little gobs of frosting made to look like flowers.
On the other table sits cake’s mortal enemy: the pie. A generous helping of fruit filling (what kind of fruit is your choice), made up of the sweetest (but not too sweet) syrup is encased in a crust of pure perfection. It is browned by baking, but not brittle; it still yields flexibly to your fork. The top of the crust is sprinkled with sugar crystals, and the smell wafts towards you.
Both of these desserts can be heated at will, for however long you prefer. Ice cream is, of course, offered generously.
The question is: Which will you choose?
I say pie. **Zoggie** , the ignorant fool, says cake. Which side are YOU on?
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2001, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/2 "2001-06-29T23:40:16Z")
Is this like the philosophy thing? The dog in front of two equally alike bowls, and it will ultimately (Supposedly) starve to death rather than choose?
Anyway. I would choose the cake.
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### Author:  [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/3 "2001-06-29T23:41:11Z")
Pie, most definitely. Amish-made black raspberry pie with shameless amounts of lard and sugar.
I want mine for breakfast, though. I don’t eat dessert.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/4 "2001-06-29T23:42:58Z")
Cake. But get rid of those damn frosting flowers. Frosting shouldn’t come in nuggets. It should fill its role of giving the cake part reason to exist.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/5 "2001-06-30T00:25:24Z")
Cake.
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### Author:  [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/6 "2001-06-30T00:41:16Z")
Gotta be the pie. Syrupy gooey goodness offset by a flaky tender crust of heaven that can only be _pie_.
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/7 "2001-06-30T00:44:44Z")
[cartman] PAH! [/cartman]
I make the damned fine pie. Everyone that’s tasted my pie agrees that it’s really good.
[sub]Ohh, but if there’s cheesecake with raspberries on top - fresh raspberries… oh god I have no willpower…[/sub]
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/8 "2001-06-30T00:45:44Z")
Cake - chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, no stupid flowers or sprinkles or any of that stuff. Maybe a side of hot fudge.
Pardon me while I drool
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### Author:  [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/9 "2001-06-30T00:51:17Z")
I say Pie is for GirlyMen.
CAKE!
(BTW - Cheesecake qualifies as CAKE not PIE)
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/10 "2001-06-30T01:59:33Z")
Traditional birthday cake, the kind with the heavy buttercream icing that you can almost chew. Made in a bakery, not a Safeway.
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/11 "2001-06-30T02:06:32Z")
Cake.
I’ve never liked any type of pie except the cheap graham-cracker crust, chocolate-pudding filling type.
I consider Boston Creme Pie to be a cake.
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### Author:  [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/12 "2001-06-30T02:10:32Z")
You’re all sick, y’know that? I hate fluffy icing. Makes me want to gag.
But, I feel it necessary to clear some things up for the sake of debate. When I say “cake” and “pie” I mean the strict definitions. Cheesecake, Ice Cream Cake, Pumpkin Pie, and other ambiguous desserts will not be included in this argument.
And I repeat once again, all you cake-lovers are what’s wrong with America. Yeah.
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/13 "2001-06-30T02:18:16Z")
Cake, definitely cake. With half the icing scraped off, and the crusty flowers flung across the room.
You know, I read somewhere that Back In The Day, pie was the world’s most ordinary dessert. Boring old pie, a staple on the American table, tasty but nothing special. But then times changed and even though pillsbury & pet ritz made it easier with their ready-made pastry, people just stopped making pie so often. Pie became some sort of “wow, you baked!” sort of down-home delicacy.
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### Author:  [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/14 "2001-06-30T02:20:58Z")
Well, for obvious reasons, I choose pie. Glorious, creamy mousse like pie.
[sub]so you can trip and fall into it, baby. Or, I can. I’m nothing if not easy to get along with.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/15 "2001-06-30T02:28:57Z")
None for me, thanks.
But if you have a wedge of some stinky, sharp, corrupted cheese back there in the kitchen, I’ll take a sliver of that. With some nice crusty bread. And could I have another glass of the red wine?
– Uke, _sans_ sweet tooth
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### Author:  [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/16 "2001-06-30T02:32:21Z")
Cake.
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### Author:  [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/17 "2001-06-30T02:53:40Z")
Pie.
Everyone like pie.
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### Author:  [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/18 "2001-06-30T03:42:39Z")
Pie. Made with fresh sour cherries, the best kind for pies.
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### Author:  [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/19 "2001-06-30T05:23:39Z")
Pie! Approximately 3.14159 pieces. Cherry.
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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternal-question-cake-or-pie/70670/20 "2001-06-30T06:08:00Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by CheapBastid \*
> \*\*I say Pie is for GirlyMen.
>
> \*\*
Well, I’ve always considered myself more of a ManlyGirl, but nonetheless, pie.
Strawberry-rubarb.
Cake is for suckers.
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