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Worst:  Mince Meat Pie.     Unfortunately there is usually one on our table, because it's one of my uncle's favorites and he is pretty much the only one who wants to eat it.  I have tried it, it's almost like a pie version of a fig newton or something, but definitely the last one I would go for. 


Best:  Apple is a favorite in general for me, but on Thanksgiving I do also love pumpkin smothered in whip cream. 

But living in a home with picky eaters I must say Coconut Cream pie is my lusted after forbidden fruit.  Whenever I travel out of town, I always try to grab one.  House of Pies in H-town makes the best.

I have a story about cherry pie.

Up until I was about 14 it was my favorite.  Then one day when I was feeling rotten and staying home sick, my sweet, lovable sister-in-law (bride of my brother) made me a cherry pie.

She left it with me and I was all alone.  It was warm and sticky and beckoning.

I ate a slice.  It was amazing.  Perfect.  I had a second and walked away.

The pie called to me.  I had no self control.  Slice by lovely slice I ate the whole thing.

I was fine for a while.  Maybe even an hour.

But remember how I was sick?  It made me sicker and I lost it.

What people tend to forget between vomits is how much is forced out through your nose.

I was blowing cherry skins out my nose for a couple of days.

I’ve never really been hungry for cherry pie since.  Guess you could say I had my fill.

I never met a pie I didn't like

So, there is no worst, but just grades of best

Eating a good pie is like seeing one's life flash before their eyes, without dying

When I eat Coconut Cream Pie, I'm back at my Grandmom TJ's house for a holiday dinner, and she's got three different pies on on the buffet, at the ready.  Coconut cream was always one of them, usually mixed in with a pumpkin and a fruit pie of some kind.  And, sometimes swap out a berry pie for a cobbler - usually blackberry or blueberry. 

Seeing these three there on the buffet ready to be devoured was in some ways like trying to decide which of Charlie's Angels is the best looking, kind of a win win win situation.  Coconut cream was kind of like Jaclyn Smith (even though Farah Fawcett's hair color kind of goes more with coconut)

Anyway, the angels aside, eating pie is like traveling back in time to my grandmom's house.  She was a larger than life type grandmom who made everyone feel good - always joking with a twinkle in her eye.  Going to her house was like walking into a Norman Rockwell painting, in real life.

Pumpkin and berry pies do this for me too, but not to the extent that coconut cream pie does.  Yumm.

However, in the grand scheme, much like in the Coke vs. Pepsi Wars how I sided with Dr. Pepper, in the classic Pie vs. Cake debates, I have to choose C) gimme one of my family's cobblers.

That's because there is simply no debate.

Cobbler > (Pie || Cake)

Sounds like she’d cleverly laced that nog with a utee-will-fall-head-over-heels-for-me potion, which clearly worked.  Smart gal!

Tend to agree that cobbler has a high ranking in my household versus pie, and especially cake.

My grandmother is up there in years now, but used to make the best peach cobbler.  They lived out in east Texas outside of Nacogdoches on a few acres and grew their own peaches.  Actually they had a HUGE garden and grew their own everything.  Some of the best food I've ever had and likely ever will have I had visiting my grandparents.... To include the peach cobbler.  It was good enough I'd wipe out a small village to obtain some of it.  Along with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, I have to say it's probably the best dessert ever. 

I group desserts into tiers.... with Tier 1 being peach cobbler, chocolate pecan pie and my wife's ice cream pie.  Tier 2 would be things like homemade apple pie, pecan pie and cake brownies.... Tier 3 encompasses most everything else.