History
The Story of Piemas
One year long ago, several friends were gathered for a thanksgiving dinner. Dinner was mighty tasty and everyone was full. Then dessert was brought out: pies.
Apple pie and blueberry pie and kentucky pecan pie and cheesecake and banana cream pie and grasshopper pie and sweet potato pumpkin pie and two other pies whose identity has been lost to the ages. Nine lovely dessert pies, and eight guests to eat them. So the pies were passed around from place to place, slivered onto plates, shuffled onto the sideboard when the table space ran out, and no one felt really well by the end of it.
However, everyone recognized the magnitude and goodness of the occassion, and in later years piemas was separated from thanksgiving to give greater attention to the pies. Savory pies, pizza pies, quiches, pot pies, and hand-held pies like empanadas have been added to round out the meal. Piemas lore is passed from seasoned guest to new invitee ("don't get seconds or you'll never make it through dessert!"). Guests now contribute their own pies, and ovens all over the city fire up for days in advance.
And so each year, around-but-not-on thanksgiving, we gather for pies.