tomato pie

noun tomato pies

1. countable, dated, uncountable pizza The "pomidore pizza", or tomato pie, is made in this fashion. Take a lump of dough, and, under a roller, flatten it out until it is only an inch thick. On this scatter tomatoes and season plentifully with powdered red pepper.
2. countable, regional, uncountable In some Italian-American and Italian-Canadian communities, any of a number of variations of pizza consisting only or largely of dough and tomato sauce. In Philadelphia, tomato pie is a springy, square flatbread slathered with tomato sauce and comparable to the Sicilian sfincione.
3. countable, regional, uncountable A savory summer pie from the American South, containing tomatoes topped with grated cheese mixed with mayonnaise or a white sauce.