Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1918 — Now It's Bottomless Pie. [ARTICLE]

Now It's Bottomless Pie.

When is a pie not a pie? is a question which will tax the wits of some wartime Solomon to solve in squarely facing the issue of “bottomless pies” as a measure of war saving of foodstuffs in the latest Hooverized innovation of baking for the nation. The movement to remove the bottom crust from pies is being taken h#ld of by housewives and bakers generally, and Is gaining wide support. New York is a pte-eatlng city. It is estimated that an entire pie Is eaten between 15 persons daily, or a total consumption of 500,000 pies each day in the metropolitan district. In one year the collective stomachs of New York’s pie-eaters absorb 182,000,000 of the dainties. Some one with a penchant for large figures has gone so far even to state that the bottom crust of those pieces, if rolled out With a large rolling pin across * 40-acre lot, would in a week cover the surface of the field and lap over the fence posts. On the basis of 4,000,000 pies eaten by the entire nation each day, at the end of the year the bottom, crust of the pies would form a strip of crust nine yards wide and long enough to encircle the globe at the equator. Some crust.