If the American pie bar is news to you, you’re not alone. Emily Elsen says she didn’t realize she was one of the original trendsetters when, seven years ago, she and her sister Melissa opened their first Four & Twenty Blackbirds in Brooklyn. Even earlier this year, when the Elsen sisters opened their fifth location — a 10-stool bar where you can chase a slice with wine or beer — Emily says she had yet to realize the extent of this sweet and widening outbreak.
“Having been in the business and written a cookbook, we’ve seen people [including Ms. Glennon] start their own business,” Elsen says. “But I’m surprised to find out there are as many as there are.”
There’s no definitive data on just how many pie bars there are — or by how much the pie-bar world has grown. But according to the American Pie Council, which collects data on pies, total pie sales have been growing steadily — now at about $1 billion per year.
Okay, SO. I posted a picture of a delicious lasagna I had baked. (A real lasagna. The kind you eat.) @jimothy-and-spockums replied to said post and told me to “tag the porn.” So I (being me) replied to that post with a gif of some extremely NSFW graphic man on man porn. And I tagged it lasagna. (I also apologise for failing to tag my porn and offered real porn as restitution.)
WELP. @jimothy-and-spockums was certainly not expecting to see a peen in a bum; however, at roughly that moment we decided to tag our actual porn from that moment on as #lasagna. Because why not.
So now, when you tag your Pie as #lasagna it means he’s looking good enough to eat. Or something.
That all makes perfect sense (in the world of this crazy fandom). But just to help explain why I was confused… you tagged in on some pie belly porn, so I was thinking…
Is it lasagna that makes pie’s belly bulge just a teeny bit?
To add to the confusion, Pie Lasagna IS apparently a thing:
Apple, too…
So… even an experienced Bean can get confused…
Thanks for walking me though it! I’ll tag this porn