Italian-Americanisms? or regionalisms?

[Mark A Mandel]

On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Dave Wilton wrote:

#"Pie" is used by non-Italians. Short for "pizza pie" or "tomato pie." (This
#last is an old usage. I haven't heard it since my early childhood, but you
#can still see painted signs advertising "tomato pies" on the Jersey Shore.)

Here in Framingham, Mass. (between Boston and Worcester), there's a
place called "Ty's Pies" whose products, to my disappointment, are
pizza, not pastry.

-- Mark A. Mandel