Cream pie : Cream pie is mostly made and consumed in the United States of America (cream pie). It is composed of a cream generous based on milk, cream, all-purpose flour, eggs, parts de bananas, all on one bed de biscuits crumbled ; it is often covered with whipped cream.
In general, a pie with cream is a preparation culinary made from a dough lowered au roll et garnished de cream, among other ingredients.
From another angle, the use of the cream pie is to crush it in the face of a third person (by surprise) rather than to consume it.
In certain cases, by extension, a familiar term used to designate a ready-made idea, a recurring cliché, a consensual commonplace, a catch-all opinion of great banality: we hardly get wet given that there is all kinds of pies and all kinds of creams.
The cream pie is a widely used prop in films from the 1930s, since taken up by the gang of " scalers » to castigate certain people for not pleasing everyone or taking themselves too seriously...
The use is similar to watering or spraying paint for humorous purposes.
See Tarte under Mouth slang.