Slinging pies in protest
The German AfD's Beatrix von Storch isn't the first politician to get hit square in the face by a pie. "Pieing" is a popular political gesture: pies are accessible, they don't hurt - but send a visible message.
Food protest
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was hit by a cream puff at a book signing in a Berlin department store in 2000. Clearly annoyed, the 70-year-old is reported to have remained seated, commenting: "The riff-raff really are everywhere these days."
Wrong flavor
At a briefing during contentious climate-treaty talks in The Hague in 2000, a woman hurled a pie at chief US negotiator Frank E. Loy. Not to be deterred, the US politician later issued the following statement: ''On the eve of Thanksgiving, pumpkin pie would have been a more traditional choice, but what I really want is a strong agreement to fight global warming.''
Having his cake
Noel Godin, a Belgian writer, critic and notorious "pie thrower," targeted Bill Gates in 1998 in Brussels because he felt the software billionaire was getting too "haughty." Gates reportedly only joked, "The pie just wasn’t all that good."
Election campaign attack
Protesters threw two cream pies laced with urine at Dutch right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn, who led his anti-immigration party to a position of prominence in the Netherlands. The attack came just weeks before Fortuyn was assassinated by an animal rights campaigner in early May 2002, a few days before the Dutch general election.
Sublime choice
In 2012, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg met with a colleague in a bar in Berlin to discuss freedom on the Internet, when activists, one wearing an Anonymous mask, stormed the room and tossed Black Forest cake at the former German defense minister. "Hooray, a pie attack," an unperturbed, Guttenberg posted on Facebook. "I thought I was going to go hungry in Friedrichshain."
Just a stunt
A protester smeared British Agriculture Minister Nick Brown with a chocolate éclair at a 2002 National Farmers' Union conference in London. Putting on a brave face, Brown later dismissed the incident as a "silly stunt."
Favorite victim
French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy seems to be at the top of Noel Godin's hit-list ever since he first targeted the author in 1985. Levy angrily knocked Godin to the ground -and Godin", who calls his antics "entarter", has continued to target Levy over the years. "He has always reacted extraordinarily badly, with uncontrollable arrogance," Godin once explained his tenacity in an interview.