<p>Anyone ever mail a pie? I was thinking I’d overnight it, but I’m not sure how to pack it. Any suggestions? (3/14 is pi day)</p>
<p>I’m assuming you’re talking about a pie w/ a crust on top? You probably could wrap it up with Glad Wrap, and then wrap it over and over in bubble wrap. That stuff is pretty amazing. Great idea, by the way…I’m going to steal it and impress my math-nerd daughter next week with it!!!</p>
<p>Hey, my son #3s birthday is Pi Day! which he is pleased about. </p>
<p>At first thought, I just wouldn’t mail a pie. (What if it turned upside down?) But on second thought, if it is not at all runny, and has a firm top crust, the Glad Wrap/bubble wrap treatment would probably work.</p>
<p>Go for it! (And let us know how it, um, turned out!)</p>
<p>why not buy some of those nasty snack pies? they come already individually packed so you could probably throw 'em in a box with some packing pellets and be fine…or how about those mini-pecan pie things that are so firm you could ship them…</p>
<p>i am sure your home made pie would be much better, but if you’re just going for the effect of “pie” on “pi” day, it wouldn’t matter much</p>
<p>I would be afraid to mail a homemade pie. And my kids love pie! Pie (of a variety of types) is usually their welcome home treat, but I would NOT mail one!</p>
<p>Mini pecan pies are probably the best tasting alternative.</p>
<p>Oaklandmom:</p>
<p>Chances are that there will be a pi day at his school, and students will be treated to more pie than they can eat.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.math.harvard.edu/piday/index_2006.html[/url]”>http://www.math.harvard.edu/piday/index_2006.html</a></p>
<p>Just think about how much fun opening a gooey box would be. I picture a bunch of kids sitting around with forks, scooping pie innards off the back-side of the bubble wrap! It will make for a good story. Go for it, Oaklandmom!</p>
<p>astrophysics mom has a more positive way of thinking about things than I do 
I was thinking of how awful I would feel knowing that my culinary work of art had been “smashed”!</p>
<p>I think a pie with a pastry type top could be a bit of a challenge (I’m envisoning the classic domed pie). What about a dutch apple or crumble type topping with an extra effort to pack down the top? I could see that making it in reasonable shape with heavy duty layers of plastic wrap tightly binding it together inside a sealed plastic bag inside some bubble wrap. Yes, I’m definitely seeing some possibilities here…</p>
<p>It’s a truly inspiring idea. Any time one of my kids cuts into a pie it looks mangle anyway. What college kid wouldn’t be thrilled to get a pie from home!</p>
<p>I have a friend who wanted to send a pie, had it all packaged up and took it to Mailboxes Etc., where she was promptly told that they couldn’t mail it with any guarentee at all, since it would probably arrive smashed to smithereens.</p>
<p>Too bad. She is a good pie baker.</p>
<p>We recently had a pie fundraiser and all the pies were shipped from Colorado…frozen. To me that would be the only way to keep the pie intact. (Delivery nightmare…I know.)</p>
<p>or you could bake it so that it would fit in a tin. put it in the tin. tie the tin up like mad so it wont open. put the tin in a box. ship that baby!</p>
<p>im assuming it’s NOT a berry pie? id go with a pumpkin or pecan pie. obviously it’s not a cream pie lol!</p>
<p>Freeze the pie… it will be as solid as a rock. Then bubble wrap it and send it overnight mail. It will arrive thawed…but it should be ok.</p>
<p>You are all awesome to even consider this. There’s a story in my H’s family that when his dad went off to fight in World War II, his mother had so little understanding of what was involved that she baked and mailed him a FISH.
It arrived a month later, to the great irritation of my father-in-law’s sergeant who held it up at arm’s length, demanding to know who had done this.</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK with the pies!!!</p>
<p>thank you all! You are wonderful! Between the bubble wrap & freezing the pie & I may use two pie tins, I think it will make it just fine! I’ve also ordered a t-shirt from cafe press <a href=“Gifts - CafePress”>Gifts - CafePress; it says mathematically “i 8 sum pi” and the shirt made me think I should send him a pie to go with it. It was so hard to choose a pi t-shirt, I couldn’t decide between “i 8 sum pi” and a shirt that send on the front: “pi = 3, e = 3, pi = 3” and on the back “don’t round” I try to think of “holidays” to send him stuff. on e day he just got a card i made with ten reasons e is better than pi(maybe next year I’ll get him the e=pi shirt for e day. </p>
<p>paying3tuitions, that was a funny story. at parent orientation at my son’s school, one student told a story of her mom mailing her dinners(which she threw away as they’d arrive 2 or three days after mailing, smelling really bad) and she asked us please please not to mail our kids food and assured us there was enough food on campus. (Though just yesterday I emailed a big box of snacks to my kid. I do worry - no meals in the dorms on the weekends and my guy is so skinny, I want him to eat more!)</p>
<p>Pi Day followed by the Ides of March…</p>
<p>I say go for it! I haven’t mailed a pie and I am not a pie baker. However, the past two years I have mailed a homemade iced and decorated birthday cake to my youngest kid at college. I baked the cake in a rectangular pan and rather than taking it out of the pan, I left it in to give it “structure”. I iced and decorated it in the pan. I laid a sheet of wax paper, than Saran wrap and then bubble wrap taped across the top. I then slipped it into a rectangular mailing box almost the same exact size so that it could not move at all. It arrived in one piece and my D seemed to really like it as I have made her homemade, often elaborately decorated cakes every year and then she was gone on her 17th and 18th birthdays at college and so she still got a touch of a mom-made birthday cake and had friends over to celebrate, candles and all. I think if I could do it with an iced and decorated cake, you could do the same with a pie, especially one left in the pan. Try it…worked for me. Worse that can happen is what someone else said…they will eat pieces of pie out of bubble wrap. But a pie in a pan with bubble wrap taped over the top and all around and the pie securely in a box so that it can’t move at all, should work. Have fun.</p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>Marie Callender’s? </p>
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<p>Delivery or Gift card?</p>
<p>A million years ago when I was in school, a college friend’s grandmom sent a sweet potato pie. It never even made it out of the box. As astrophysicsmom described, there were just 10 of us standing up, spoons and forks in hand, scarfing on the most delicious homemade pie! Later we all stood by the phone shouting our thank you’s to the grandmom! She was tickled pink.</p>
<p>Maybe pumpkin or sweet potato. Not as delicate.</p>