National Pie Day Is Upon Us!

What are you doing this weekend? Re-watching the entire season of Jersey Shore? So are we. But there’s actually something else worthy of your time this weekend. Saturday is National Pie Day!

It’s a holiday created by the National Pie Council to simply appreciate pie (and probably boost sales of pie ingredients). But hey, we’re not complaining. Also, yes, you better believe there is such thing as a National Pie Council!

The people behind the Council — which we imagine is made up of a boardroom of kind-faced ladies who look like the mom from Happy Days — have put together a handy-dandy page where you can check out how cities around the country are celebrating this hallowed holiday.

Pie company Bonert’s is giving away 300 pies to lucky people on the streets of Chicago. In Spokane, Washington, Cyrus O’Leary’s restaurant will be giving away pies to fire fighters, police, elementary schools and Pearl Harbor Survivors. At their Wisconsin locations, Norske Nook Restaurant is giving away free pie to veterans who show up with their military identification. Inns in Rockland, Maine will have a sort of pie-crawl, where people can learn about the history of pie while touring inns in the area and tasting 40 different pies! Yes, that means loosen your belts, people!

The Council web site has a full list of happenings in your area along with a ton of coupons. Also, if that’s not enough for you, sign up for Pie Times, the newsletter of the Pie Council. There’s a newsletter celebrating the love of pie?! Yes!

You never knew there were so many people out there as into pie as you, did you? It’s sort of like when you found out your neighbor played Dungeons and Dragons, too. But minus the twelve-sided die. And the shame.

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