Happy #PiDay ! Here's a picture of a couple of Portuguese pasteis de nata I picked up from
the local branch of the, ahem, Pineapple King franchise.
Scholars of solid geometry and the European colonization of the Americas might wonder:
Why two tarts? With their area 2πr2, that's half the surface area of a sphere.
And the Treaty of Torsedillas,
of course, divided the earth in two; Portugal would colonize land on one side of the line,
Spain on the other. But it should be noted that while Spain hoped the treaty divided
the globe in two equal halves, Portugal disagreed and claimed more than half.
To those confused scholars, I say: I just wanted two plain ol' egg custard tarts.
Pineapple King had already sold out of the regular kind, but they still had some
Portuguese-style.
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