The argument whether a Boston Cream pie is actually a pie or a cake! Who cares. For me it tastes delicious whatever you choose to call it! Let me have some, and you won’t see it anymore!
Boston cream pie is our favorite snack in the hospital cafeteria when we take our break from dog therapy rounds. Another person and her dog are with us. She is very confused by the name, but I used to make them at home years ago, so I accepted the misnomer years ago. It has cake batter, cream filling, and frosting. It’s a one-layer cake cut in half with the custardy-filling added, and the top put back on. There is nothing in there that resembles a pie. There is also nothing in a pizza that resembles a pie, either, so some words are just weird. I also take a small bag of mixed dog treats to reward our girls for being so wonderful to everyone in the hospital, even while on break.
A show that formerly aired on The Cooking Channel was called Food: Fact or Fiction. One of the topics they discussed was if Boston Creme Pie was appropriately named. I don’t remember all the details and I haven’t seen the show in awhile, but the conclusion host Michael McKean and several other people who know about food came to is that what we refer to as Boston Creme Pie is more appropriately characterized as New England Custard Cake.
oldpine52 about 2 years ago
What do people in Boston know? after all they think a pig’s butt is on it’s shoulder and they drive caws.
i_am_the_jam about 2 years ago
So the cake is a lie?
wjones about 2 years ago
Basically a Boston cream pie is a cake.
The dude from FL Premium Member about 2 years ago
Keep your cake! I want pie
GROG Premium Member about 2 years ago
I want a coconut cream pie…to throw in the boy’s face!
Doug K about 2 years ago
Bread Pudding is equally deceptive.
gopher gofer about 2 years ago
calling cake pie, that sure takes the cake…
e.groves about 2 years ago
Call it what you want, just give me a slice.
flemmingo about 2 years ago
Boston crème pie is one of my favorites. My Mom use to make them. Boy I miss my Mom!
dcdete. about 2 years ago
The argument whether a Boston Cream pie is actually a pie or a cake! Who cares. For me it tastes delicious whatever you choose to call it! Let me have some, and you won’t see it anymore!
[Traveler] Premium Member about 2 years ago
Love Boston cream pie
Chris about 2 years ago
and yet the world is still ever stranger to even thee adults.
cyberdalekyeti about 2 years ago
Same thing with cheese cake looks more like a pie
EnlilEnkiEa about 2 years ago
The folks at Cheers were drinking too much when they named that cake.
timinwsac Premium Member about 2 years ago
And in a few years he’ll discover girls and the communication gap will grow even wider.
Brent Rosenthal Premium Member about 2 years ago
Just be glad she isn’t making Rocky Mountain Oysters, which also aren’t what their name implies.
petermerck about 2 years ago
Pie good. Frosting good. Putting frosting on pie, somebody has been drinking in the kitchen.
Moonkey Premium Member about 2 years ago
Boston cream pie is our favorite snack in the hospital cafeteria when we take our break from dog therapy rounds. Another person and her dog are with us. She is very confused by the name, but I used to make them at home years ago, so I accepted the misnomer years ago. It has cake batter, cream filling, and frosting. It’s a one-layer cake cut in half with the custardy-filling added, and the top put back on. There is nothing in there that resembles a pie. There is also nothing in a pizza that resembles a pie, either, so some words are just weird. I also take a small bag of mixed dog treats to reward our girls for being so wonderful to everyone in the hospital, even while on break.
preacherman Premium Member about 2 years ago
My mother used to make a pound cake that was so moist one could call it a pie, too. And that’s one of my mom’s recipes that I’ve never duplicated.
Buckeye67 about 2 years ago
For once Wiberforce is right, if it doesn’t have a crust it isn’t a pie.
raybarb44 about 2 years ago
What’s in a name? If it tastes good (and it should) that’s what counts…..
Gordo4ever about 2 years ago
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." – Lewis Carroll/Humpty Dumpty
heathcliff2 about 2 years ago
Because of what is in it and the way it was or is being made.
stillfickled Premium Member about 2 years ago
Years ago I got hooked on Boston Creme Pies. But they were in a package and flat. No chocolate.
Chris Sherlock about 2 years ago
A show that formerly aired on The Cooking Channel was called Food: Fact or Fiction. One of the topics they discussed was if Boston Creme Pie was appropriately named. I don’t remember all the details and I haven’t seen the show in awhile, but the conclusion host Michael McKean and several other people who know about food came to is that what we refer to as Boston Creme Pie is more appropriately characterized as New England Custard Cake.