Apart from pizza, the most common variety of tomato pie is a Southern staple consisting of fresh and ripe beefsteak tomatoes. Fully-baked pie crust is loaded with tomato slices and covered with ...

“Italians call it pizza, but we call this an All-American tomato pie,” reads the introduction to a tomato pie recipe in a Feb. 5, 1956, edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Naturally, plenty of places serve pie on Pi Day. You can find a handy list here. And even if traditional pie isn’t your favorite, there are places offering discounts on other pie-adjacent foods.

If you find yourself in some local pizza shops in a few cities across the U.S., you will likely spot tomato pie on the menu and wonder just how different it is from a tomato sauce pizza. The ...