Q: Is the pie in the sky chocolate?  (From Together, 1960.)

A: Almost!  It's technically Opera Cake, with three thin layers of almond cake soaked coffee syrup, a layer of espresso buttercream, a layer of bittersweet chocolate ganache, and a topping of chocolate glaze.

What the recipe books never admit: any one confection can give rise to worry, accusation, joy, anger, and questioning (as depicted here).  The larger the baked good, the wider the range of emotions it engenders.  From Mansfield's 1919 yearbook.

"Apple pie!"  From Fisher Junior's 1966 yearbook.

What a lie that we have equal work and play time.  The typical 8 to 5 workday is 9 hours, and that doesn't include time to get ready or commute.  Nor does it acknowledge that some (many) people need more than 8 hours of sleep.  It's all an ugly lie.  Also, if every day is a giant pie, no wonder so many folks stuggle with weight management.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.

Chocolate pie!  From The Nation's Health, 1921.

This cursed photo, purportedly of a pie-throwing contest, appears in the Kansas State Collegian, 1975.

The pumpkin pie monument.  From The Judge, 1913.

Pie for everybody, by occult means if necessary.  From Le Charivari, 1849.

At first glance we thought he had brought a collection plate to receive a bounty from a gargoyle's mouth.  It's more likely a pie-eating contest (no less grotesque).  From Atlantic Christian's 1982 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, have had to hide yourself within the food you were gorging upon.  "A piece of Harry's large picture."  From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.  The text reads, "But while I was eating still with undiminished relish, I heard that somebody was at the door.  In the perplexity of the moment I did not know where to conceal myself, when, fortunately or unfortunately, I jumped into the large hole which I had cut into the pie, squatted down, and shut the lid over my head."

Pumpkin Pie Boy.  From Holiday Plays for Home, School and Settlement by Virginia Olcott, 1917.

"The apple-pie bed."  From The Story of a Secret and the Secret of a Story by Ismay Thorn, 1887.