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Pie is a baked dish made by lining a shallow container with pastry and filling, usually a sweet or savoury mixture of meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry that is baked until the crust is crisp and the filling is cooked through.
“Pie” was the word for a magpie before it was a word for a pastry, from the Latin word for the bird, Pica (whence the name Pica for the disorder that makes you eat weird things). Pica morphed into “pie” in Old French, following the proud French tradition of actually pronouncing as few consonants as possible.
The history of the pie has its roots in ancient Egypt and Greece. The ancient Greeks ate pie (artocreas), though it was of the savoury type with meat in an open pastry shell. The Romans may have been the first to create a pie that included a top and bottom crust.