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You're right, it's not. Pies are round. (Or is it "3.14 (pi) R square"? ) Not only that, calzones aren't round, and some pies can be open-faced, like lemon meringue.
Where I come from that is a tart not a pie. Pies generally having lids, tarts being open.
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Since this great country of ours is so vast, there are some foods with multiple names. The name you use usually depends on where you live or where you were raised. As an example, what do you call a long roll with a variety of fillings? Some answers could be hoagie, sub or submarine sandwich.
Here's my list of foods with more than one name and what I call them:
Hoagie
Hotdog
Soda
Pancake
Green Bean (Growing up I said string bean. Somewhere along the line it changed for me. I don't know why.)
Pizza
Stuffing
Frosting
I was raised in the Philly Suburbs and have spent the huge majority of my life here.
Do you call any of these foods by a different name? Make your list and add where you live and/or where you were raised, depending on which location you think influenced your choice. If you come up with more examples of "same foods, different names" please add to the list.
When you leave the Philadelphia area frying peppers are called cubanelle peppers.
In my part of the state (western Mass) soda is called soda, ice cream sodas are called ice cream sodas, but Hoagies/subs are called grinders. No matter where I go, I call them grinders--even near Bawston!
Do you say "bubbler" (bubblah), instead of water fountain? I still do.
My family always referred to it as channa. Because they come from a country where people of Indian decent are actually the largest portion of the population.
Nope, not upstate. Aside from one weekend visiting someone at SUNY Albany, I've never even been upstate! Brooklyn Girl here, then Long Island.
According to a few of the posts on the thread linked below, it's apparently a Yiddishism, which makes sense since I'm 2nd generation and my grandparents' native language was Yiddish. Even when they spoke English, they often used Yiddish sentence structure. And definitely something I've heard others besides them say.
So people where you are from say they are having "slice" for dinner, and everyone would know they mean pizza?
yes, in NYC
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) Not only that, calzones aren't round, and some pies can be open-faced, like lemon meringue.
At least we both call them "bagels" though. 
