Word: pied
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Baseball ranks up right up there with—dare I say it—apple pie as a prototypical “American” phenomenon, and for good reason. As the most affordable of the major professional sports, baseball-in-the-flesh is accessible to more stratums of society than, say, football. It’s also a melting pot, boasting an incredibly diverse array of players with the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Korea, Japan and, yes, Canada among the countries represented. There’s truly something for everyone at the ballpark...
...revelry culminated at 3:14 p.m. when about 13 students scrambled to consume pounds of pastry in a pie-eating contest. Math Club members weighed the pies before and after consumption to ensure the greatest possible accuracy when determining the contest’s results...
...proposal to weigh the contestants before and after eating was dismissed by the members. Contest officials concluded that “much larger amounts of pie were eaten this year than last year,” Fowler said...
...Johnathan N. K. Francis ’04 prevailed, eating over two and a half pounds of pie...
...contestant used a knife and fork, while another picked up his pie and tried to eat it like a sandwich. Another even removed his shirt in preparation for the competition...