Controversy as pasty wins the British Pie Award

[PeteXXX]

Outrageous!

~Pasty beats pies~

 

[claudbutler]

Are these awards called The Crusties?

 

[biggs682]

cant beat a good pork pie as long as its got some gooey jelly

 

[claudbutler]

Love a Walkers pork pie

 

[vernon]

I'm lost for words.

 

[claudbutler]

Cat got your tongue vern?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Cat got your tongue vern?

So shocked he's gone very pale.

 

[fossyant]

Vernon looks a bit pasty after that news.

 

[ufkacbln]

The overall winner of the British Pie Awards was a Beef Skirt and Vegetable PASTY

This has led to controversy as to whether this was an eligible entry

As a folded pastry it has no lid and is therefore allegedly NOT a pie

Over to you

 

[rikki]

A pastie or a pasty is never the same as a pie.
Who ever went to the shop for a pie and a pastie and asked for 'a pie and a pie please'?
Nobody.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

It's so controversial there were multiple threads started which have been merged.

 

[Markymark]

 

[Shut Up Legs]

It's so controversial there were multiple threads started which have been merged.

Yes, I'm fairly sure there were 3.14159 threads (or thereabouts)...

So the mods had to merge sum of them...

OK, I'll stop now.

 

[Asa Post]

<Lawyer mode>
The general meaning of "pie" is irrelevant here. The rules of the competition give a definition. Any entry that complies with the definition is valid.

3. All Pies in all Classes of the British Pie Awards must comply with being ‘a filling totally and wholly encased in pastry’. Entries which do not comply e.g. lattice topped, fruit topped, potato topped etc will not be submitted for judging.

Thus, in this instance, a pasty IS a pie.
</Lawyer mode>

 

[Haitch]

Why is the general feeling that a pasty is inferior to a pie and not the other way round?