March Madness Cake vs Pie Bracket
March 22nd, 2010 | Categories: Entertainment, Food | 10 CommentsMeg posted her bracket in the March Madness Cake vs Pie Tournament, so of course I wanted to fill out a bracket too.
It was a lot easier to decide the cake half of the bracket than the pie, which probably means that I enjoy eating more kinds of pie than I do cake. Wedding and birthday cake confused me because there are so many kinds; in the end I interpreted wedding to be white cake and birthday to be yellow. I had a very hard time picking between pound and bundt and went with pound in the end only because I’ve eaten it more than I have bundt.
In the pie side of things, it was difficult because my favorite pies were pitted against my all-time favorite: apple. Lemon meringue is my second favorite kind, so it was very sad to see it go down against apple. I would have liked to put blueberry and cherry against each other, but cheesecake beat out cherry. As much as I love cherry pie, it can be kind of a hit-or-miss depending on the cherries used.
I am very pleased with my Final Four and the results of my bracket. Obviously apple and red velvet would face each other in the end (anyone who knows my dessert eating habits well would have known that from the start). As much as I love apple, there’s just something about red velvet that gives it a little edge over apple. It’s probably because I’ve never had a bad slice of red velvet in my life, whereas I have encountered some mediocre apple pie before.
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Hi, I'm Manda. I'm a college student studying communications and languages. I like to read, shop, bake, and travel. I have a tendency to listen to my favorite songs on repeat for hours on end. Sometimes I catch myself thinking in a language other than English. 
Time for a clueless moment for a second, but what is March Madness? I keep hearing about it all over the place and I have no sweet clue what it is. XD
And because I needed the procrastination, I filled the chart out for myself too. It was actually really hard because a) I don’t really like pie, and b) I don’t really like chocolate either. XD In the end, it came down to coffee cake vs. cheesecake (which I would not consider pie… it’s cake!), and cheesecake won. No big surprise there. :P I’m a cheesecake fiend.
Because Wikipedia explains it better than I ever could: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Championship
Basically, it’s a tournament for the Division I college basketball teams held in every March. It’s also known as “The Big Dance.” 65 teams qualify and each have a “seed” and battle it out till the end. 65 is whittled to 16 (“Sweet Sixteen”) and then to 8 (“Elite Eight”) and then 4 (“Final Four”) and then the last two duke it out for the championship. It’s insane, because seeds don’t always carry a lot of weight in terms of which teams make it to the Final Four. This year, top seeds like Georgetown, Villanova, and Kansas have gone down to lesser seeded teams, to name a few. That’s why it’s so mad; anything can happen!
It has to do with basketball? Wow. Never would have guessed that! haha. I thought it was just like an online ‘event’ of some sort. Clearly, I was very very wrong. XD Really, I had no idea. But basketball would never have been my first or 500th guess! XD
*dies* Oh, Krissy. *pats you on the head* You are Canadian, therefore you are excused :P
I’m much more of a cake fan. The pie side was hard for me because there were a couple of cases where I didn’t like either! (e.g. key lime vs. sweet potato). I think my champion would be Pineapple Upside Down Cake :D
I feel so clueless – I have no idea what’s up with the pie/cake charts or March Madness, really D:
Add another clueless person here, but it looks interesting, and looking at all those cakes and pies has made me hungry. :D
That’s confusing! How did you get all the numbers? *will read Wikipedia entry* I’m still to try Red Velvet cake, it’s earmarked for next baking session.
Ha ha that is a lot of cake!
[...] Wikipedia entry for the first time in my life for an assignment, Cheesecake beat Red Velvet in the Cake vs Pie March Madness championship round so I’m going to The Cheesecake Factory tomorrow to eat red velvet [...]