PIE (of the pastry variety  🥧 )

- the delicious foods stuff medley; likely related to Latin pia = pie, pastry & possibly also pica = magpie; 

(earlier English, called just pie due to the bird's habit of collecting a medley of miscellaneous objects, with the misogynistic prefix: mag, (nickname of Margaret & slang for qualities associated with women; in this case the bird's "idle chattering") added later)

   Personal Favorites: Peach, Rhubarb, classic Bing Cherry, Turtle, Razzleberry* & my mom's favorite, true (yellow) Key-Lime

    A word unknown outside English (with the exception of Gaelic pighe, which is from the English) it spawned the Pie-Chart and many excellent idioms🔍 such as "easy as eating pie" c. 1884,  "pie-eyed" = drunk c. 1904,  "pie in the sky" c. 1911,  & annoyingly politicized "get a [your/ my] slice of the pie" c. 1967.  

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Related: (a) older piehus = bakery [pie + hus = house] 

    (b) pied meaning parti-colored, variegated with spots of different colors - (think medieval jester half + half hats, checkered tunics & tights with each leg a different color e.g. the Pied Piper) likely called so as the past participle of a verb form of pie in magpie sense, a reference to the bird's black and white plumage. 

    (c)  pie as printers' slang for "a mass of type jumbled together" - perhaps in the medley sense, or because the type (usually a mix of red & black) can be described as pied (i.e. variegated/ spotted: above) OR - to really get deep in the 🐇 Rabbit Hole🔍 - related to the printers definition of pica = (rather than a magpie)  a size of type, 6 lines to an inch,** named after the most common use of the type; the book of rules for the Church of England for determining Holy Days, titled PICA; in turn named for either the collection of rules similarity to a magpies collection or, rounding out the full circe (or pie🥚,  if you will) because anything printed in that small a type, like the PICA, results in very crowded type on a page that is described by printers as being pied, for it's tight jumble of different colored letters. 

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Semi-related: Blackbird Pie, (of a song of 6-pence,) Crow (& Humble) Pie, Palpatoon (pigeon, lark or rabbit pie)

​   *  Mix of Blackberry, Raspberry, Blueberry or if your feeling exotic, & in Norway, Cloudberry...

** For comparison, this is ~4 lines to the inch.