I'm David Ferrier in New Zealand to accidentally marooned in America and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.

One thing I love about America is that it really loves celebrating different days of the week.

It finds all kinds of excuses to do this, mostly focused

around food because America loves eating. And so there's Ice Cream Day on July 21st,

Burger Day on May 28th, and Pie Day on January 23rd, not to be confused with Pie The Number Day,

which is on March 14th.

Whooo, National Pie Day!

And we're excited to celebrate with the New York staple.

Pie is like the perfect dessert.

It is.

And so while I'm months late, it's today that we turn to Pie Day, the food, not the number.

I went to National Day calendar.com to find out more about Pie Day,

where it told me the first Pie was created around 9500 BC during the Egyptian Neolithic period.

Over 10,000 years later, in 1986, America decided it loved Pies so much it declared January 23rd National Pie Day.

The day was created by the American Pie Council because of course that's a thing, and America

has been celebrating it ever since because America loves pie.

Over two billion dollars worth of pies are sold in American grocery stores every year.

And according to the American Pie Council's website one out of five

Americans have eaten an entire pie by themselves. So this week I talked to a woman

who traveled to all 50 US states to investigate 50 different American pies,

and we try her top three pie suggestions. So, get ready to decide what your favorite pie is because this is the Pies episode.

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