When is a pie not a pie?

[vernon]

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/d-lo...ity-8211-Pie/story-24991432-detail/story.html

I've just had lemon meringue pie does that fulfil the criteria?

Go to the start of the thread, read the pie criteria and judge for yourself.

 

[winjim]

Go to the start of the thread, read the pie criteria and judge for yourself.

I think it depends on whether you consider the meringue bit to be filling or crust.

 

[Tin Pot]

Pie.

Mmm.

Petition signed.

 

[Keith Oates]

Is a Cornish pasty a pie? Is a samosa?

A Cornish Pasty is just that and a pie has not yet been invented to match it from any aspect !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tin Pot]

A Cornish Pasty is just that and a pie has not yet been invented to match it from any aspect !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it a pasty if it was made outside Cornwall?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I think we need some clarification on aspects of tarts. Calling @Fnaar

 

[MontyVeda]

Morecambe FC top the pie charts in the football league. Perhaps when Glossop North End get promoted to the league they can lay a legitimate claim to the title.

Really??? Any idea who makes them.

 

[MontyVeda]

There is a worse offender than the basic pastry lid: when they just make puff pastry circles, separately and hours earlier, and drop one on a dish when serving.

I've never sent such an abomination back, thought it was a English thing. I will, from now on.

we used get them occasionally for my junior school diners (although it was shortcrust)... a ladle full of mince & onions in gravy, and a separately cooked slice of pasty on top... loved it! Far far better than the greasy floppy handmade 'crisps' they threw on our plates when he had salad.

 

[Firestorm]

Clachnacuddin of the Highland league won the best pie in football a few years ago.
a splendid scotch pie made by a local butcher, marvelous fare

 

[Firestorm]

This is why a friend will ask when ordering "is your pie a pie, or a casserole with a hat on?" and order appropriately.

I do similar, I ask if the pie has a bottom...
Generally the staff understand entirely

 

[jefmcg]

I do miss the aussie meat pie. It's the nutritional equivalent of the english kebab: minced "beef" in gravy, wrapped in commercial pastry and topped with tomato sauce (== ketchup). Closest thing I've had in the UK are Eel Pie shop pies, but different. Because they are so popular, most takeaway places have them already to eat in a pie warmer, not cold waiting to be ruined in a microwave; not dried out because of high turnover.

Slightly posher takeaways have a good variety of more gourmet pies, the people here wouldn't sniff at, also always warm and ready.

 

[Tin Pot]

The best pie in football...

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

 

[vernon]

Really??? Any idea who makes them.

They are now made in house and they sell 800-1200 per match which isn't bad with a gate of around 1800.

They used to be made by Potts pies.

 

[Crankarm]

Perhaps we need the expert opinion of @Piemaster.

 

[MontyVeda]

They are now made in house and they sell 800-1200 per match which isn't bad with a gate of around 1800.

They used to be made by Potts pies.

I had a feeling Pott's would me involved somewhere along the line, their pies used to be excellent, until they put them up to a 'premium' price. One can only pay so much for a pie... no matter how tasty... maybe they didn't want the working classes eating their stuff.