Grab 3/14 of a slice of Pi

Mar 14, 2024 | 9:00 AM

Pi Day, that magically tasty time of year when bakeries get their math on and calculate how much flour, sugar and flavour are needed to make the perfect pie.

In North Battleford, Andy Thiell, owner and operator of Danish Home Bakery said they first began making pies on March 14 (representing the 3.14 of the famous math value after dividing the circumference by the diameter) roughly five years ago and it just stuck.

“It [was] just something that came across one of our periodicals I guess or maybe it was advertising in a bakery in another city,’ he said.

“Just thought we would maybe see if we could jump on that bandwagon.”

Thiell said it’s basically a regular day for his staff, no different than if it were a bread day.

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“We increase our production of pies and people take advantage of it,” he said.

Among the favourite flavours, apple tops the list. Followed by Saskatoon berry, blueberry, cherry, raisin, lemon and rhubarb.

“Apple’s twice as much as any, but that’s just normal,” he said, noting that it’s a staple.

“People grew up that way and still holds true.”

Pi Day was created in 1988 by an American physicist who worked at the San Francisco Exploratorium. Along with the day spent eating a veritable factory of pie, if one is so inclined, they may take part in competitions to see who can recite the most decimals in Pi – mathematicians have calculated it has trillions of digits.

In the Battlefords, however, the pie factory is where Thiell is focused.

“My favourite pie by far is an apple pie.”

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by Julia Lovett-Squires

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Grab 3/14 of a slice of Pi

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