Rob, I recently called my techie friend a Nerd and he was "affronted". He said they are called Geeks, not nerds. LOL

Definitely get a tee-shirt for him!

I'd make either "pizza pie" or pie... and attempt to cut it into 3.14 pieces. :)

You didn't mention how old son is.....we have a NERDY grandson ( second yr at University of Illinois) and he likes pie, pies like banana cream and pumpkin only...no fruits....

I find kids back off from pies of any kind.....brownies, cookies and store bought junk sweets are their thing. I would think about a Chocolate Chip cookie dough baked in a 12" round pizza pan making a big cookie and drizzled with chocolate ganache. Put the Pi symbol on it in chocolate. Kids of any age likes chocolate chip cookies.

Hmm, my favorite (right now at least) is buttermilk chess pie. You could do the pi symbol in berries. For my kids, chocolate or butterscotch are favorites. For those, the pi symbol could be done in whipped cream. I also have a wonderful peanut butter pie recipe which would be a candidate for the pi symbol piped in chocolate (I may have to make that for pi day here, the kids will dig it). Other candidates that my kids seem to enjoy are pumpkin cream cheese pie (layer of cream cheese, topped with a layer of pumpkin, and then some streusel) or pecan chocolate chip. I guess it is rather obvious we love pie in this household and my experience is that teenagers rarely turn their nose up at a decent dessert (with the exception of ones overloaded with fruit, like berry pies, only 2/4 of my kids eat them and their friends are a mixed bag).

Rob, my granddaughter, Makayla, also tells me they are now "geeks", they are not nerds, LOL. I also learned about "geek chic", who knew?

Pie? My favorite is lemon meringue, but I'd got for something with a ration of 3 to .14. Small pies that get cut into 3 with .14 ounces of whipped topping or chocolate drizzle? Heck, and I'm not even a geek but I'd go for 1/3 of a small chocolate pie drizzled with caramel and .14 ounces of chopped nuts, or something similar.

Annie

I have a family member in nerd school too, and I gave her a pi dish awhile back with a certificate for an apple pi baking day, but I haven't heard from her about actually baking it. There's something so comfortingly normal about apple pie. :)

I think my favorite pie, however, is fresh fig pie. It's very simple and delicious. I always make it with a whole wheat crust.

I made a lime pie for my birthday, and I am making a chocolate hazelnut Bavarian cream pie this evening, for a potluck at work tomorrow - a going away party for someone who is leaving after being here for several years. She does not like lime pie, but I think she may like chocolate pie.

I will be out of town on pi day!

Around these parts, the nerds make the distinction geek is one who is into video games, computer stuff, techie things, etc. and nerds are into intellectual diversions. Such a nerdy distiction! Or full on nerd!

That is the dilemma... Savory or sweet? Both! We could bring cookies (they're round) or pies. He's fifteen and not ready for university, but we've begun campus visits. My officemate just got appointed Chief of Cardiology at UIC. What field is your son in?

Love that T-shirt, here's another son and I like.

http://cdn.thatsnerdalicious.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/pie-590x284.jpg?313ab3

My favorite is lemon chiffon, but for kids, I'd bake brownies in a pie pan.

Interesting how our usage of words evolve. A century ago, a 'geek' was a person in a specific sideshow act that usually entailed something disgusting like biting the head off a live chicken.

Bakewell tart. Easy and fun to make.

rob, I really like that tee shirt. I have never seen that one before. I think you should send a real pie. While I can imagine that shirl could be right that young people don't really like pie (a real shame), I would expect that nerds would expect or require real pie for this occasion. A two crust pie seems easiest as you can easily cut a pi symbol into it.

Makayla says that here the "smart" kids are all considered geeks. Those are the ones who have been moved into the advanced math or science classes. The computer "techies" are divided into "gamers" and just "techies". Everyone uses the technology, of course, the schools require it. Remember Audio/Visual rooms? Now it's all IT. I guess I'm showing my age when I say when I was a kid, we were called "eggheads".

Annie

This is one of my Pi pies from a couple of years ago, apple cranberry or perhaps Autumn fruit which has I think raisins too.

I think you should make a blueberry or cherry or strawberry or blackberry or raspberry pie and have them mathematically figure out how many berries are in the pie!

They need to do the math before they can have a piece of pie!