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[postman]

The pub pie that's perfect: Yorkshire Inn's lamb and mint version named after a horse crowned best in Britain

• Chestnut Horse pub in East Yorkshire takes prestigious pie prize
• The Welsh Cob is made of diced lamb in pastry infused with dried mint

By SAM WEBB

 

[Maverick Goose]

Tell Vernon....sounds like an Ian Dury and the Blockheads song

 

[Archie_tect]

Welsh cob pie.... whatever they say that's got to be horse, and then when Trading Standards pull them they can say that's how it's described.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've just watched a pie film about my local butcher. More Steak Pie than Vernon's usual target but where else can you post up pie films?

Even Deptford's tamest wagtail is pied.

http://www.talkingoffood.com/watch/203-steak-pie.html

 

[vernon]

It's of marginal interest as it's not a pork variant and the presence of mint makes it an unlikely candidate for a tasting. I can't get my head around the Yorkshire predilection for mint with, on or in pies. If I wanted a minty pie I'd eat a Polo mint first.

The author of the article seems to have an interest in pies....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oven-try-freshly-baked-pies-middle-night.html

 

[Fnaar]

@vernon do Pie, Mash & Liquor (a la Cockney) figure on your pie-o-meter at all?
I've always figured they were sub-standard fodder dressed up a bit... but I like 'em... but I'll eat anything*

*within reason

 

[vernon]

@vernon do Pie, Mash & Liquor (a la Cockney) figure on your pie-o-meter at all?
I've always figured they were sub-standard fodder dressed up a bit... but I like 'em... but I'll eat anything*

*within reason

Never sampled the combination. If the liquor was absinthe, I might be tempted.

Last weekend I visited the pie truck at Knockengorroch festival only once and had a steak and haggis pie. I was underwhelmed and wondered what led to my consumption of four or five pies per day at the same truck three years ago then I remembered that I was 'sponsored' i.e. free pies chips and beans to sit at a table next to the pie truck wearing my 'Keep Calm and Eat More Pies' hoodie.