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Oregon Pie History: Crater Lake Ice Cream Pies, Klamath Falls

Crater Lake Ice Cream Pies

I spotted this old Crater Lake Ice Cream Pie box at an antique shop in Cannon Beach recently. It was sold by Klamath Falls Creamery in Klamath Falls… looks fairly old, maybe 60s or 70s-era.  The Klamath Falls Creamery building still stands today, it is now home to Klamath Basin Brewing Company’s “The Creamery Brewpub & [...]

Portland Pie History – Fred Durst Gets Pied

When Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst was visiting a Portland area Guitar Center store on January 13, 2002, he took a pie to the face from a teenager. The pie was of the coconut cream variety. The teen was charged with disorderly conduct and five counts of harrasment. I’m not sure why the kid did [...]

Portland Pie History: Quality Pie

Before the pie boom of 2010-11, pie, believe it or not, existed in Portland. Quality Pie was a Portland institution until it shuttered in 1992. It was located on NW 23rd & Northrup across from Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital. The venerable Dave of DaveKnowsPDX recalls the institution: Quality Pie, in addition to Powells and the [...]

Meet The Original Angry Birds

  Before everyone was distracted with their iPads and Droids and other Mickey-mouse doohickies, the children (or as I call them, the chillins) would Sing a Song of Sixpence for entertainment. The four and twenty blackbirds that were baked in a pie for the king were the original Angry Birds. Would you be happy if [...]

Caught With One Hand in the Pie Safe

If you’re a pie-lover and are looking to add a nice piece of furniture to your kitchen, I suggest that you add a pie safe. I personally hadn’t heard of the pie safe until I began my pie-blogging odyssey about a year ago. However, the pie safe used to be an extremely important piece of [...]

…And Now The Biggest Pie Fight in Cinematic History

From the 60s classic “The Great Race“, enjoy.