A tart is a dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savoury, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard. You keep ignoring my point: this also very much describes key lime pie and we still call it a pie. Things like this can have overlap and be both.
A key lime pie is classified as a pie. A cheesecake is not. I didn't make the rules. I'm just saying you don't get to change them.
Sorry, Cheesecake Is Not Cake Cheesecake or Cheesepie? - Article - FineCooking This is actually hotly debated
I was putting it in dog’s terms. I looked at it through his lens becuase, even through that lens, I’d never be dissatisfied if I asked for pie and got cheesecake
It's not a cake. That's correct. It's a cheesecake. It is it's own thing unless you're talking about the family of dessert it is in, in which case it is a tart.
You both made the argument, like, a habanero smoothie would be a shitty fruit smoothie But if I asked for pie and got cheesecake I’d be like hell yeah. Legit. My favorite pie.
Also, something being debated doesn't mean there is validity to it. People debate whether or not the Earth is flat or evolution is real and tbh this is a much quicker solution to find. Google: Cheesecake Read for five seconds. It's not a cake or a pie. Done haha