Their civilization is based on the most forthrightly materialistic value system in the history of mankind. If they see pie in the sky, they immediately start figuring out how to get it down onto the dinner table.

-Bonavia, David
The Chinese.

You will eat, byand by, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

-Hill,Joe originally Joel Ha«  gglund
Songs of the Workers,'The Preacher and the Slave'.

Whatever isfunny issubversive, every joke isultimatelya custard pie† A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack uponmorality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'The  Art of Donald McGill'.

Don't go into Mr McGregor'sgarden: your father had an accident there, he was put into a pie by Mr McGregor.

-Pott, Frances
  TheTale of Peter Rabbit.