Is cheesecake a pie or cake?

peasypod

A cheesecake is neither a pie nor a cake as such, it is a tart. Mind you, that could also be a darn good euphemism for the other type of cheesecake.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheesecake Feb 18 07, 3:32 AM

SOTHC

A bit harsh calling them tarts Peasy -- Way back in the 1930s, long before the internet and cable TV put "hard-core" on the national menu, tabloid newspapers and disreputable "pulp" magazines would often try to attract their largely male target audience by festooning their front pages with photographs of attractive young women. This being the 1930s, such displays were chaste by modern standards and usually limited to what were known as "leg shots," featuring young women in swimsuits or relatively short skirts. Similar tableaus were common on calendars and playing cards of the period, and the genre was known as "cheesecake." (Among non-aficionados it was usually condemned as "smut.") http://www.word-detective.com/032404.html Feb 18 07, 6:50 AM

Czolgolz

In Spanish, it's called 'pay de queso' Cheese pie. Feb 18 07, 7:47 AM

gman89

In Bosnian, it's called "sirnica" or "pita od sira", and it also translates into pie in English. Feb 18 07, 9:34 AM

Superman4ever

I am now confused. So, is it a pie or a cake? Or is the answer indefident? Feb 24 07, 8:15 PM

jj137

I would say both. Jun 02 07, 6:12 PM

intergalactic9

Some types of cheesecake are custard pie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheesecake Jun 20 08, 1:29 PM

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