Pie in your face? Top bosses reveal their tips and tricks to deal with it

How would you face up to a flying pie? With a sense of humour and the hope that the flavour is one of your choosing, reveal business heads.

Later, he jokingly told reporters he had been unable to identify the flavour. Turns out, it was lemon meringue, flung at him as a mark of protest. Putting politics aside and answering the question with good humour, leading executives say if they had a pie-in-the face moment, this is the flavour they would plumb for:

Jason Kothari Chief Strategy and Investment Officer, Snapdeal
“Pecan pie à la mode for me. It’s the perfect combo of warm, cool, sweet and crunchy. I would respond by saying, ‘Thanks for the facial. Do I get a foot massage as well?"


That's some quick wit there. (Image: BCCL)

Yannick Colaco MD, NBA India
“I would like it to be apple pie. Apple pie and vanilla ice-cream is my favourite dessert. My reaction would be to insist that the pie-thrower supply vanilla ice-cream with it!”

Manu Kumar Jain MD, Xiaomi India
“Blueberry would be my flavour of choice. I just like the taste. At least nowadays, blueberry is my favourite in cakes and pastries.”


He's already picked out his flavour. (Image: BCCL)

Harkirat Singh MD, Woodland Worldwide
“If someone had to throw a pie at me, I’d prefer it to be a strawberry one, so I can at least have a taste of it. Of course, I would also like to know what I did to warrant such a reaction.”


A strawberry pie would be rather good. (Image: BCCL)

Phillip Di Bella Founder, Coffee By Di Bella
“I would have to pick apple. It’s my favourite. I would have handled it [such a situation] with humour — however, stating clearly that I am a savoury man not a sweet person.”