Custard pie
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A custard pie is a popular dessert. A traditional custard pie is a pie crust filled with a cooked custard. Ideally a custard pie should be light and delicate, but still have good body. A custard pie is firmer than a cream pie, which is actually a custard pie thickened with cornstarch and then topped with whipped cream, or a chiffon pie, which is custard thickened with cornstarch and gelatin and then folded into whipped cream. + - - - Custard pie in the face - -
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- - - - - Custard pies is also the popular term used for any pie thrown, tossed or applied forcibly to someone's face. The pie is not necessarily made of custard or a pie crust. Custard pies can be made out of cream, shaving foam, custard or mashed potato sat on a pie base, crust or flan case. The pie is usually sat on a paper plate or foil tin case. Custard pies can either be yellow or white - cream pies in the face tend to be cream white in colour. In the USA pie booths and tosses are popular in colleges, universities,army platoons and schools to raise money for various causes and charities. Pie in the face fundraising is popular elsewhere including the UK for events such as Red Nose Day/Comic Relief or Children In Need. In many of these events a simple paper plate and shaving foam filling set up as a custard pie. - - - - - - Someone who gets a pie in the face may be referred to as owned, pied, creamed or flanned[citation needed]. - -
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- - - - - - - - To obtain maximum effect the smooshing or smearing in the face option is the best. Ideally the victim should be within less than a metre. The pie can be applied and at fundraising enables onlookers to take film or photographs for posterity or publicity. Tossing or throwing pies can at the very least miss the victim but as it can mean using force could hurt any potential recipient. - -
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- - - - - Custard pies are a popular prop for clowns, kissograms and feature in comedic television series. Television series include Soupy Sales, TISWAS, UPick, Passa Ou Repassa and YCDTOTV. In the series TISWAS the Phantom Flan Flinger would menace the studio audience, presenters and guests with custard pies and more often than not serve up a direct pie in the face. Custard pies have also been used by pressure and political groups by activists to target and flan amongst others famous capitalists, politicians and actors. In most cases the pie has been taken with good humour. The aim has not been to hurt, but to humble and humiliate. - -
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- - - - - - - Here below is an example of the author being flanned in Manchester in 2004. - - -
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