I am enjoying a wonderful piece of cheesecake, but why is it not called cheese "pie"

[Liberal Veteran]

...when it is obviously a pie?

[XemaSab]

1. How the hell is it a pie?

It's made in a springform pan, for chrissakes! Not a pie tin! No f***in way is that s*** pie! :o

[Liberal Veteran]

3. Cake must have bread.....

I see no bread, therefore, it must be a pie.

Either that or cheese "cake" is neither fish nor fowl.

[XemaSab]

7. It's a flat bread

made of graham crackers, walnuts, and butter. :)

[supernova]

2. Because it has flour and eggs?

:shrug:

It's not really a custard, as a lot of nonfruit pie fillings are.

[rug]

4. You're right, it's a pie.

Furthermore, a koala bear is not a bear.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. Correct: Koala's are arboreal marsupial herbivores

:D

[Lex]

10. But I thought we were an autonomous collective.

nt

[JohnnyLib2]

5. I object!

Quibbling over words while some of us have no cheesecake at all.....
really!

[eyesroll]

8. It's more of a custard.

:shrug:

[Hand]

9. Insh'Allah. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Because the cheese pie is something different...

it's baked in a pie pan and has a slightly looser consistancy.

Junior's, in Brooklyn, always had cheese pies in addition to a dozen or so varieties of cheesecakes. None on their website now, but they don't travel well anyway. Might still have them in the store.

[barb162]

12. I agree with you. Everything about it is like a pie, most notably

the pin tins they are made in. They're basically a cream pie.

[From The Ashes]

13. Thanks...

...now I'm craving cheesecake again...x( And it's all your fault! :P

[TorchTheWitch]

14. same reason Boston Cream Pie isn't called a cake

since it really is a cake rather than a pie.

And now I want both a cheesecake AND a Boston cream pie.

[Der Blaue Engel]

15. I call it cheese pie

And I totally concur with you. Who cares what kind of pan it's made in, it's a filling on top of a crust. That's a pie.

To be more accurate, I call it cheesepie. :hi:

[quip]

16. "Cheese Pie"????

Why do you hate America???

:hi: