Pie

noun

An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

    Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains.

Rev. Dr. Mucker

(in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman)

    Cold pie is a detestable
    American comestible.
    That's why I'm done -- or undone --
    So far from that dear London.

(from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo)


—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary