It seems people love pies! And it seems people love our pie reviews on www.pierate.co.uk! So today we are delighted to be celebrating our 150,000th page view with a special post highlighting our top pie articles so far and an appearance on BBC Local Radio's "Mark Forrest Show"!

November 2009 – The Pierate Ship sets sail
January 2012 – We celebrated 10,000 pageviews
July 2012 – We reached 15,000 pageviews
March 2013 – We landed on 25,000 pageviews
October 2013 – We hit 50,000 pageviews
February 2014 – We were delighted to make 100,000 pageviews
May 2014 – We are amazed to reach 150,000 pageviews


But wait – there’s more! As it happened, one of the big topics on the BBC Local Radio summary show – the “Mark Forrest Show” – was pies and unusual pie fillings! So no sur-pies that they called on the pie experts the Pierateers and we had a 10 minute conversation with Mark. It was very flattening to hear Mark say "The strength and depth of this blog is something to inspire" and "It's an amazing blog." While sadly the recording was only online for one week, you can read some of the articles we referred to below.



And without further ado, here are our top 5 articles from our first 150,000 pageviews:

1) Best Pies in London Restaurants – 1,585
2) Best Pie in London – 1,516
3) Is it a pie? McDonalds under the knife – 1,426
4) Pierate in the Urban Dictionary - 679
5) What Makes The Best Scotch Pie? - 525

Plus with over 8,000 pageviews already, it’s no surprise our Pierate Pie Rankings page is the most visited page on Pierate!

Thanks once again to all the pie fans out there who make writing all these pie reviews such a PIEleasure! Enjoy!

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Now here at Pierate we hold unswervingly to the premise that if it isn't about pies, it isn't going on Pierate. No questions asked. Even our delve into Politics and our celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympic Games were all soaked in pie-related goodness.

But I guess with every rule, there has to be some sort of get-out clause. And for us here at Pierate, if there is one thing we’re willing to discuss on this blog that isn’t directly related to the humble pie itself, it’s having a bit of pun with words. For what would a good pie review be without a play on the name, the ingredients or where we ate pie?!

So thank you BBC for your 1,200 words spent debating the pros, the cons, the rise and fall of this humble art form:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21011778

I particularly commend the following from Sally Davies:

“The efflorescence of punnery on social networking sites...suggests that puns have become acceptable as part of the online conversation.”

However despite all the debate and the suggestion of a bright online future for the pun, for us here at Pierate there is no doubt. Like you can’t have a filling without a full casing of pastry surrounding it, you can’t have a good pie review without some pun and games. Fact! 

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