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Pie
Pie (pye): baked dish of food fully or partly enclosed in dough, from Egyptian galettes and Roman placenta to English coffyn crusts and American apple pie; word attested 1303.
Pie and mash
Pie and mash is a traditional London dish of minced beef pie, mashed potato and parsley liquor, served with jellied eels in shops dating from the mid-19th century; the Cooke, Manze and Kelly families ran them, and around 30 shops remained in 2024.
Piedmontese cuisine
Piedmontese cuisine (cucina piemontese) is the regional cooking of Italy's Piedmont: Savoy-court refinement plus Langhe peasant food, bagna càuda, tajarin, agnolotti del plin, Barolo wine, white Alba truffles, and the 1989 birthplace of Slow Food.
Piedra de sacrificio
A piedra de sacrificio is a stone altar, above all the Aztec techcatl, on which victims were stretched while priests extracted the heart as an offering to a deity.
Pierogi
Pierogi: Polish half-moon boiled dumplings of unleavened dough, filled with potato and twaróg, cabbage and mushrooms, meat, or fruit, related to Ukrainian varenyky and Russian pelmeni; first cookbook recipe 1682.
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin, born Pietro Cardin (1922 to 2020), was a French fashion designer who founded his Paris couture house in 1950 and defined 1960s Space Age fashion.
Pierrot Grenade
Pierrot Grenade is a traditional Carnival character of Trinidad and Tobago, a satirical descendant of the older Pierrot masquerade, known for spelling any word through elaborate stories.
Pigs in a blanket
Pigs in a blanket: in the US, sausages or hot dogs baked in dough; in the UK, bacon-wrapped sausages served at Christmas. Also called pigs in blankets; earliest cited print use is Betty Crocker's 1957 Cooking for Kids.
Pigtail
Pigtail: a lock of hair tied or braided at the back or sides of the head, plural for two side bunches; also twisted tobacco and an electrical wire. First recorded 1680–90; hair sense from 1753.
Pike Place Market
Pike Place Market is a Seattle public market founded in 1907. After being saved from demolition by a citizen vote in 1973, it occupies a seven-acre historic district.
Pileus (hat)
The pileus (Greek pilos) was an ancient brimless felt cap worn by Greek workers and Roman priests, given to freed slaves as a liberty symbol, and later conflated with the Phrygian cap of the French Revolution.
Pilk
Pilk (Pepsi + milk) is a cola-and-milk drink, a dirty soda variant. Known from Laverne & Shirley, a 2020 viral tweet, and Pepsi's December 2022 Lindsay Lohan #PilkandCookies campaign.
Pillsbury Doughboy
Pillsbury Doughboy, also Poppin' Fresh, is Pillsbury's dough mascot created by Rudy Perz at Leo Burnett in 1965, debuting November 7, 1965 in stop-motion; over 600 ads, 87% recognition, Macy's balloon since 2009, now owned by General Mills.
Pimento cheese
Pimento cheese, also pimiento cheese, is an American cheese spread of cheddar, pimentos, and mayonnaise, nicknamed the pâté of the South. It originated in New York around the 1870s, went national around 1910, and became a Southern staple after World War II.
Pimm's
Pimm's is a British gin-based liqueur, sold chiefly as Pimm's No. 1 Cup and owned by Diageo, best known as the official drink of the Wimbledon tennis championships.
Pin
Pin (sewing): thin pointed fastener of steel or brass holding fabric layers before stitching. Also safety pins and T-pins. Distinguished by shaft diameter 0.4–0.8 mm, length 1/2"–2 1/8", head type, and point style per fabric.
Pin-up model
A pin-up model, or pin-up girl, is a person, usually a woman, whose mass-produced photograph or drawing is displayed on walls, a term Webster's defined in 1941.
Piña colada
The piña colada is a sweet blended cocktail of rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, created in San Juan and the official national drink of Puerto Rico since 1978.
Piñata
Piñata: decorated papier-mâché or clay container filled with sweets, hung and broken blindfolded with a stick; brought to Mexico by the Spanish in the 16th century, with claimed Chinese and Italian roots; seven-cone star form tied to the seven deadly sins.
Pincho
Pincho (Basque pintxo) is a small Basque bar snack, typically bread topped with food held by a skewer, invented in 1930s San Sebastián; famous example the gilda; eaten bar-to-bar, paid per piece, distinct from free tapas.
Pink (Victoria's Secret)
Pink (PINK) is Victoria's Secret's younger-skewing lifestyle brand, launched in 2002 for college-age women. Known for bras, apparel, and body mists; peaked near $3 billion in 2018 sales, then declined and is now being revived for 18-to-24-year-olds.
Pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy: raspberry-pink wool bouclé suit with navy trim and pillbox hat worn in Dallas on November 22, 1963; an authorized Chez Ninon copy of a Chanel design, now sealed at the National Archives until 2103.
Pink slime
Pink slime is the pejorative name for lean finely textured beef (LFTB), ammonia-treated beef trimmings used as cheap ground beef filler; coined by USDA microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein in 2002, it sparked the 2012 ABC News controversy, BPI's collapse and $1.9 billion settled defamation suit, distinct from pink slime journalism.
Pinky ring
Pinky ring: any ring worn on the little finger (Dutch "pinkje"), most iconically the engraved signet. Victorian unmarried wear, 20th-century gangster associations, queer signaling, and a modern revival led by women and genderless designs.
Pinot gris
Pinot gris, also called Pinot Grigio, Grauburgunder or Ruländer, is a grey mutation of Pinot noir from Burgundy. Early picking gives crisp Italian Grigio; riper harvest gives rich Alsatian Gris, with ramato skin-contact wines in Friuli.
Pinot noir
Pinot noir (Spätburgunder, Pinot nero) is the black-berried Burgundian Vitis vinifera grape behind red Burgundy: thin-skinned, early-ripening (about 1,150 degree days), disease-prone, with 36,727 ha in France (2018) and 11,519 ha in Germany (2023).
Pint glass
Pint glass: the standard beer-serving vessel sized to a pint, chiefly the UK nonic imperial pint (568 ml, crown-stamped since 1698) and the US shaker pint (473 ml); covers legal measures, glass shapes, history, and pouring research.
Pipe smoking
Pipe smoking: burning tobacco in a bowl-and-stem pipe. Native American origin, spread to Europe late 1500s via England and Dutch clay pipe industry; all-cause mortality RR 1.99 vs never smokers.
Pirot kilim
The Pirot kilim (пиротски ћилим) is a flat-woven woollen rug made in Pirot, southeastern Serbia, on a vertical loom, with two sides of equal quality.
Pirozhki (пирожки)
Pirozhki (пирожки, singular pirozhok) are small Russian filled buns, baked or fried, the diminutive of pirog (pie), never boiled like Polish pierogi; common fillings include cabbage, potato, meat, and egg.