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Pi Day is every week for local Billings business Montana Pie Company
BILLINGS — The date, March 14, is recognized as Pi Day because when abbreviated as 3.14, it represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference — the number Pi.
While that has nothing to do with food, many take the day to celebrate by eating pies.
Pie day for Michele Rafter and Lura Hale happens once a week, as they make hundreds of pies for their business Montana Pie Company.
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“We make the dough from scratch,” said Hale on Thursday. “We make 150 to 200 crusts. Then we make pies”
March 14 is just another day for the duo and they aren’t busier than any other day.
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“It’s just kind of busy all the time,” Rafter said.
While there’s not a lot of math to their story, their long-time business partnership is made up of one simple equation, one woman who loved making pies. Plus another woman who didn’t have as much experience.
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“As a child, I always wanted to bake… In the fall my mother would always make pies and then freeze them. So, that’s kind of where the idea originated from,” Hale said. MTN News
“Michele said she had never made a pie and so I said, ‘Well, I can teach you.’”
They first started off making pies in their kitchens and selling them at small farmers’ markets. Now, 20 years later, the duo is going strong selling their frozen, bake-at-home pies that can be found in stores in Billings, Columbus, Big Timber and Red Lodge. Find a full list of stores and restaurants they are sold in here.
“Our first store that picked up our pies was Poly Food Basket,” Rafter said. “We love having a local, Montana made-from-scratch product out there and we just appreciate everybody that supports us.”
Where Khloe Kardashian Stands With Ex French Montana More Than 10 Years After Breakup
French Montana is done keeping up with reality TV.
In fact, he only agreed to appear on Keeping Up With The Kardashians and Kourtney & Khloé Take the Hamptons over a decade ago as a favor to then-girlfriend Khloe Kardashian.
“She said to get on the show,” he exclusively told E! News at the BET Awards on June 28. “And I got on the show. Shout out to Khloe.”
The “Ever Since U Left Me” rapper, who split with Kardashian in December 2014 after eight months of dating, said the experience was “fun” because her family kept it real.
“They filmed their real life,” he continued. “And we were part of something together that one time. So it felt great. It didn’t feel like work because they film what they do everyday.”
As for his future in reality TV, the 41-year-old said those days are over, shutting down any prospective offers with a simple, “Negative.”
Although the “Unforgettable” artist—whose real name is Karim Kharbouch—may not be returning to television anytime soon, he has no problem hanging out with his ex-girlfriend these days.
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