• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              7 hours ago

              I am far from well versed in baking, but my brain basically considers a cobbler a subset, or type of pies.

              Grandma would make pies and cobblers with the same circular pans, same dough, same crust… so… its just a specific kind of pie to me.

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                3 hours ago

                Interesting, Ive only ever made or seen cobblers made in rectangular pans. I wonder if shape is the dividing line between people who consider them pies vs not.

                • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  1 hour ago

                  That would be my guess, yeah.

                  Pie = short/stout circular cylinder, involves some kind of dough/bread, tends to have a crust, tends to have stuff witin the uh, semi-enclosed volume made by the bread.

                  Can have bread/dough on top also, but doesn’t need to.

                  I think that works for a chicken pot pie (apparently also shepard’s pie?), a pizza pie, an apple pie, a lemon merengue pie…

                  That at least seems plausible/likely to me, but, I am only me.

                  … maybe some very bored linguist or statistician has actually polled people on this?

            • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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              20 hours ago

              yeah. I don’t know how common it is but it was the subject of some debate at the kids’ table for a few thanksgivings. I was raised on the “cobbler and pie are two distinct dishes” side of the family.

              I think of it as a pie kind of the same way I think of pizza as a pie: like, it’s maybe technically a pie but it’s different enough that it merits its own name. Calling it “pie” sounds odd.