Editing Pie (section)

==In popular culture==
In the United States, a popular idiom is "American as apple pie".<ref name="Mayer" /> There pie, especially apple pie, became intertwined to the point that in 1902, ''The New York Times'' asserted that "pie is the food of the heroic" and "no pie-eating people can ever be permanently vanquished".<ref name="Gross" />

The slang expression "to eat humble pie" comes from the [[umble pie]], which was made with chopped animal offal. "It's a piece of pie", meaning that something is easy, dates from 1889.<ref name="JIUpK" /> "Pie-eyed", meaning drunk, dates from 1904.<ref name="JIUpK" /> The expression "pie in the sky", to refer to an unlikely proposal or idea, comes from "[[The Preacher and the Slave]]", a 1911 [[Joe Hill (activist)|Joe Hill]] song.<ref name="JIUpK" />

===Pie throwing===
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Cream filled or topped pies are favourite props for [[slapstick]] humour. Throwing a pie in a person's face has been a staple of film comedy since [[Ben Turpin]] received one in ''[[Mr. Flip]]'' in 1909.<ref>{{cite web | title = A Very Brief History of Slapstick | work = Splat TV | year = 2003 |url=http://splat-tv.artshtick.com/history.html | access-date = 29 January 2009}}</ref>  More recently, [[pieing]] has also become a political act; some activists throw cream pies at politicians and other public figures as a form of protest.