Pie for Breakfast

 

For those misfortunates who listen to me yap about pie, you know my ‘pie for breakfast” view. My silent prayer for Breakfast Freedom. The Cake Conspiracy has completely absorbed American Breakfast.  Disguising cake surrogates like pancakes, waffles, and French toast as the only choice for a breakfast blowout at your local Golden Spoon, we earnest Americans aren’t even aware that we could be ordering a pumpkin pie with those scrambled eggs.  Look, I know what you are saying. Pi Man, we are as upset as you are. We’ve been tricked by The Cake Conspiracy (the Conspiracy, we assume, being a loose web of pie bakery conglomerates, birthday candle manufacturers and the laboratory which created frosting in a can). We’ve been fooled into believing it is a venial sin to have eggs, bacon, and banana cream pie on our breakfast table.  Sure, there are some brave souls that practice Breakfast Freedom at home and breakout the Fruits of the Forest Pie with the corn flakes. But at a local diner?  In front of your neighbors, their children, maybe even your mother?

Breaks my heart to talk this way about Pie for Breakfast. But truth is written by the victor and The Cake Conspiracy has the upper hand these dark days. But once in a while, a beacon shines on the hill. You know there is still a spark of rebellion.

Today, while mindlessly surfing pie-related news, I found located in Pittsburgh PA a breakfast place called Pie for Breakfast.  Open 7 days a week, it serves up savory and fruit pies with your steak and eggs, biscuit, and gravy.  You can even cross the line and get a fruit pie with your panCAKES.  Heartwarming stuff. I can not wait to try it out.

Does anyone know of this place?  Are there any firsthand reviews?   It’s an 8.5 hour drive for me but it is on my short list.

Pi Man’s October Shout Out for Profiles in Breakfast Courage:

Pie for Breakfast (Pittsburgh PA)

 https://pieforbreakfastpittsburgh.com/index.html