The Life of Pies

JBZvolunteer said:
We also have pasties which is basically where you take some ground beef, onions, carrots and potatoes and put them in a single pie crust to cover both sides. Some people add rutabagas around here but others consider it a crime against nature.
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We need someone from Cornwall to adjudicate on pasty issues! :D


Pies with meat > pies without meat. Every time.

Steak and Ale pie with mash and gravy. Gorgeous.






Now I want a pie. Dammit.
 
Bele said:
Have to disagree with others , I enjoy Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pie , out of a tin , the puff pastry top gets very crisp if cooked properly . Opening the can may be hazardous though , my son ended up with a nasty gash in his hand !
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I still carry a scar from an incident nearly twenty years ago:o, those tins are lethal!

Slightly more "on thread" there's a place in Whitby that does a great sausage and black pudding pie (I'm literally salivating as I type this).
 
zooboy28 said:
At our supermarket we have a range of pies with different Indian curries (e.g. butter chicken, korma, etc).
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a lot of bakery shops sell curry pies and other such delicacies. But not in Hokitika :(

FBBird said:
If a pie has potato on top, it's either Shepherd's Pie, Cottage Pie or fish Pie depending on whether it has lamb, beef of fish in it.
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always a fun fact to pull out at parties, shepherd's pie has lamb and cottage pie has beef. I have never ever seen a fish pie for sale in NZ, apart for in restaurants and even that isn't common.

gentle lemur said:
'Pork pie' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'lie'. So don't tell porkies
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the use of the word "porkies" to mean "lies" is common in NZ as well. We also had a famous movie called "Goodbye Pork Pie" about a race in a mini from one end of the country to the other.

jbnbsn99 said:
Fascinating cultural study. Here a pie is only a desert dish.
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so you can't go to the corner store and just buy a meat pie? Now that's just weird!!

nanoboy said:
I thought you would have mentioned your favourite possum pies.
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zooboy28 already mentioned them 18 posts before your post. Please at least try to keep up with everyone else.


hmm, that was a lot of quoting for one post.
 
gentle lemur said:
The most famous pork pies are made in Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. These use uncured pork, and the name is protected so that only local firms can use the name (like Apellation Controlee wines).


Alan
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You forgot to mention that they're often eaten cold. I thought someone was pulling my leg when they offered me a cold ball of pork covered in pastry. Maybe fresh from the oven they'd be quite pleasant but the cold meat is a little too reminiscent of pet food.
 
Chlidonias said:
so you can't go to the corner store and just buy a meat pie? Now that's just weird!!
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I'm trying to still figure out what a "meat pie" is and whether or not my moderator alarm should be going off. Also, we don't have corner stores.
 
Pootle said:
Incidentally, of all places, I actually work in Wigan. The number of bakers around here churning out pristine pastry products is something quite amazing, my lunch time choice is quite astounding I can tell. Here in Wigan the world pie eating championships is held annually.
People from Wigan aka Wiganers are often referred to as ‘the pie eaters’. This name is said to date from the 1926 General Strike, when Wigan miners were starved back to work before their counterparts in surrounding towns and so were forced to eat "humble pie".
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Another explanation for "eating humble pie": The offal of a deer is called the umbles, while the meat is venison. The posh folk ate the venison while the servants had got the umbles. So if you had to eat umble pie when you usually had venison, it meant you had gone down the social scale somewhat.
 
jbnbsn99 said:
I'm trying to still figure out what a "meat pie" is and whether or not my moderator alarm should be going off. Also, we don't have corner stores.
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Too funny!! :D

Not having corner shops is also plain weird!
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Funny. I said I skim read an article you posted on page 11 of the Nonsense Thread and missed a piece of info. and you went off on me. How's it feel to be on the recieving end?:D
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Ok, I will let you in on another secret: every time someone jokingly says that they skim read, they are making fun of YOU! Shhhhh. :D

When I was younger (before I got married), I liked cream pies, but not any more for some weird reason. I have, of course, never actually eaten a cream pie. I quite like custard-filled doughnuts though.
 
Chlidonias said:
a lot of bakery shops sell curry pies and other such delicacies. But not in Hokitika :(

always a fun fact to pull out at parties, shepherd's pie has lamb and cottage pie has beef. I have never ever seen a fish pie for sale in NZ, apart for in restaurants and even that isn't common.
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The BP Wild Bean Cafes sell a Thai Chicken Pie I think, which isn't bad. They also sell a Lamb and Mint Pie which is terrible. Give it a go next time you are near civilisation.

Fish Pies are pretty abundant, we sell them hot at our deli, and you can buy "Smoked Fish Pies" in various branded frozen meals too. I'm not sure that I have seen them at bakeries/dairies/service stations though.
 
zooboy28 said:
Fish Pies are pretty abundant, we sell them hot at our deli, and you can buy "Smoked Fish Pies" in various branded frozen meals too. I'm not sure that I have seen them at bakeries/dairies/service stations though.
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I was not aware at all. Are they any good? And are they potato-topped?
 
I shall in that case have to buy one of said frozen fish pies and sample it
 
zooboy28 said:
The BP Wild Bean Cafes sell a Thai Chicken Pie I think, which isn't bad. They also sell a Lamb and Mint Pie which is terrible. Give it a go next time you are near civilisation.

Fish Pies are pretty abundant, we sell them hot at our deli, and you can buy "Smoked Fish Pies" in various branded frozen meals too. I'm not sure that I have seen them at bakeries/dairies/service stations though.
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You own a deli, or you mean your local deli?
 
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