A baked dish with a pastry crust containing sweet or savory filling.
From Middle English 'pie,' possibly from Old French 'pie' (magpie), referring to the bird's habit of collecting miscellaneous objects, similar to how pies contain various ingredients. The exact etymology remains debated among scholars.
The connection between pie and magpies might explain why we say someone has their 'finger in every pie'—like the collecting bird, they're involved in many different things. Medieval pies were often used as storage containers, with the crust serving as an edible preservative vessel.
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