Poll: Cheesecake pie or cake?

[Incompl te]

Well lets see, the cake is a lie, the cake is also a pie. Therefore, the pie is a lie.

To decide between chicken and egg, we must first find which came first.

As that will never happen i declare this post as:

/thread

 

[Flap Jack452]

Well lets see, the cake is a lie, the cake is also a pie. Therefore, the pie is a lie.

To decide between chicken and egg, we must first find which came first.

As that will never happen i declare this post as:

/thread

Your logic is undeniable.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

Well lets see, the cake is a lie, the cake is also a pie. Therefore, the pie is a lie.

To decide between chicken and egg, we must first find which came first.

As that will never happen i declare this post as:

/thread

Your logic is undeniable.

NO - THE PIE IS A FAKE

 

[Eiseman]

Your logic is undeniable.

NO - THE PIE IS A FAKE

NO! THE PIE IS A CAKE!

 

[Shapsters]

In the words of Murray Hewitt "I like pie!"

Seriously tho, cake all the way.

 

[skorpion352]

To decide between chicken and egg, we must first find which came first.

wrong, an egg cant come, therfore, the chicken came first.

/thread

 

[Ryuzaki]

No. A cheesecake is a pie. Specifically, a custard pie. It is exactly the same as key lime pie (which is almost as delicious). Alton Brown did a whole show about it. This man is a professional chef. Will you doubt his word?

It doesn't have any pastry in it; therefore it is not a pie. This is more a case of definition, not culinary skill, so I think I can doubt this chef's word.
It has a biscuit bottom layer, not a pastry one.
Not sure if it is a cake though.
I think a cake needs to contain flour.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

NO! THE PIE IS A CAKE!

THE CAKE IS A LIE, THE PIE IS A FAKE
YOU CANNOT DENY; THERE ARE LIVES AT STAKE

 

[duchaked]

I rather like cheese cake

 

[Dr.Susse]

i prefer BRAINS

 

[Some bullets]

NO! THE PIE IS A CAKE!

THE CAKE IS A LIE, THE PIE IS A FAKE
YOU CANNOT DENY; THERE ARE LIVES AT STAKE

Wasn't the cake real in portal?

 

[Arcade_Fire]

It says "cake", but it's made like a pie, but is says "cake"...

**Head Explodes**

 

[Lufteluke]

The cake is a lie, but it's hard not to have faith in it XD

 

[ModReap]

you park in a drive way and you drive in a parkway

by this logic ( and the reason that it looks more like a pie to me)

the cheesecake is a pie

 

[RagnorakTres]

No. A cheesecake is a pie. Specifically, a custard pie. It is exactly the same as key lime pie (which is almost as delicious). Alton Brown did a whole show about it. This man is a professional chef. Will you doubt his word?

It doesn't have any pastry in it; therefore it is not a pie. This is more a case of definition, not culinary skill, so I think I can doubt this chef's word.
It has a biscuit bottom layer, not a pastry one.
Not sure if it is a cake though.
I think a cake needs to contain flour.

Custard pies are traditionally biscuit bottomed, not pastry bottomed.
And Alton Brown is more than a simple chef, he is a chemist, a cultural anthropologist, and an awesome guy. Never doubt his word on anything. He's like the less-vitriolic younger brother of Yahtzee, just focused on food rather than games. If you ever get the shot, watch "Good Eats." It's his 30 minute show in which he examines one food in-depth. I think foodnetwork.com has videos of them, but I don't know for sure.

 

[Ryuzaki]

No. A cheesecake is a pie. Specifically, a custard pie. It is exactly the same as key lime pie (which is almost as delicious). Alton Brown did a whole show about it. This man is a professional chef. Will you doubt his word?

It doesn't have any pastry in it; therefore it is not a pie. This is more a case of definition, not culinary skill, so I think I can doubt this chef's word.
It has a biscuit bottom layer, not a pastry one.
Not sure if it is a cake though.
I think a cake needs to contain flour.

Custard pies are traditionally biscuit bottomed, not pastry bottomed.
And Alton Brown is more than a simple chef, he is a chemist, a cultural anthropologist, and an awesome guy. Never doubt his word on anything. He's like the less-vitriolic younger brother of Yahtzee, just focused on food rather than games. If you ever get the shot, watch "Good Eats." It's his 30 minute show in which he examines one food in-depth. I think foodnetwork.com has videos of them, but I don't know for sure.

I don't think its on in the UK, but I'll take a look at the website.
I'll take your word then that it is a pie, but I've already voted I'm afraid.

 

[PureChaos]

i'm surprised no-one has brought up the Jaffacake (it is officially a cake, by the way)

i think its cause Jaffa Cakes only exist in England (i think) but REALLY? i never knew that lol

don't they have Jaffa Cakes in the USA? i've never really checked. they proved it was a cake on the basis that when a biscuit goes off it goes soft whereas when a cake goes off it goes hard and when a Jaffa Cake goes off it goes hard. therefore, it is a cake.

 

[Levziemuch]

I have never even considered this...and now that i do..../brain explosion!!! you sir just shattered my sense of reality!

 

[Mookie_Magnus]

Cheesecake is essentially a custard pie, with the dairy and fat coming primarily from Cream Cheese, a sweet cow's milk cheese that was invented by accident when an american cheesemaker tried to recreate a soft cheese call Neufchatel. It is a pie, I don't know why it is called a cake... possibly because it resembles the shape and color of a cake... but it is a pie, it acts like a pie and tastes like a pie. The reason many cooks despise cheesecake is because they expect it to act like a cake... not a pie.

Culinary Knowledge FTW.

 

[pffh]

The cake is a pie?

Spoiler: Indeed it is