March 14th/ Pi Day 2024: Pie World Records and Pie Memories with Gib Gibberson

Scotty note: Happy Pi Day 2024!

*Suggested Serving

 

If you are a mathematician this is one of the biggies on your math holiday calendar (note to self: start selling a calendar with math holidays and pie on it). Pi Day (March 14th or 3.14) is meant to celebrate the number you get when you divide 22 by 7. If math isn't your strong suit it is perfectly acceptable to celebrate by eating delicious pie. 

Last year we shared these Pi Day Memories from noted teller-of-tales, Gib Gibberson. So heartwarming! (and bizzarro.)

Every year on Pi Day I like to share these amazing feats of Pie Greatness!

 

- Largest Cherry Pie in the World was baked in BC!

The BC Cherry Pie World Record was 17 tonnes!

"Members of the Oliver Rotary Club, British Columbia, Canada, baked a cherry pie weighing 17.11 tonnes (37,721 lb) in Oliver, British Columbia, on 14 July 1990."

"A lemon meringue pie weighing 1.3 tonnes (2,866 lb) was made by 20 students from Clarendon College, Nottingham, UK, on 4 June 1998."

 

"El Paso Diablos Baseball Club, Texas, USA made a pecan pie weighing 18.863 tonnes (41,586 lb) at Cohen Stadium, El Paso, Texas on 22 May 1999."

 

Also noteworthy... "The most expensive pie cost customers to the Fence Gate Inn, Lancashire, UK £8,195 (then $14,260) or £1,024 (then $1,781) per slice when ordered by eight guests"

and "The most expensive pie sold at auction was bought for $3,100.00 (£1,994.54) by Jerry Mumma (USA), in Rich Hill, Missouri, USA, on 6 July 2012."

More Pie Records here: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/search?term=pie&page=1&type=all&max=20&partial=_Results