Fighting the good fight

A Salon article on the topic of pie. Specifically, why pie is awesome and cake is a ridiculous sham that nobody really likes.

Nobody smart, at least.

Sure, plastered with enough frosting and chocolate-ganache implants, cake cuts a fine appearance at a party. But do you ever hear anyone talk about what's on cake’s inside? Cake’s dazzling superficiality and popularity has allowed us to ignore its tasteless core. All the while, pie has been standing in the corner waiting patiently for us to notice -- a little homey looking, sure, but with a personality like you wouldn’t believe. Pie is moist where cake is too often arid; it's complex where cake is too often banal. Pie offers me lasting contentment, whereas all cake can tender is a cloying sugar rush. In a subtle, supple flake of pie crust there is more of heaven than in all the world's slabs of cake combined.

Now I'm hungry AND angry.

OK, so the article goes on to talk about the history of pies, but all the good stuff can be found in the first few paragraphs.