A custard pie is the soft missile thrown in a comic act. Take a custard pie in the face.
It is never custard, since shaving foam holds together better and washes off. The custard pie was a staple of silent comedy and has never quite gone away.
1nouncustard pieThe soft missile thrown in a comic act.
“The whole act built to one custard pie.”
custard pie is a prop.
Practised in Circus & Fairground