When is a pie not a pie?

[winjim]

Look what arrived with our shopping - a recipe for a lidless apple "pie"! Will this madness never end?

 

[w00hoo_kent]

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).

I sometimes game with a woman from Oz, there was a food fair in London during the summer and she was ecstatic because there was going to be a stall selling Aussie meat pies.

 

[Piemaster]

Perhaps we need the expert opinion of @Piemaster.

Despite the username I am a mere apprentice to Master @vernon (note the 'm' v. 'M')
I have much to learn from his great pie related wisdom. I sit at his feet gathering up the morsels of (pie crust) wisdom he deems to drop for us mere mortals to consume.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Look what arrived with our shopping - a recipe for a lidless apple "pie"! Will this madness never end? View attachment 63168

That looked like a baked beans and chip 'pie' at first glance...mmm there's a thought.

 

[Fab Foodie]

That appears to be a tart chart.

Is it cos it's lemon?

 

[Mark1978]

I class a suet pudding as a pie. I've never had gravy on a proper pudding.

 

[Keith Oates]

Is it a pasty if it was made outside Cornwall?

The pasties can be made anywhere but the Cornish ones must have been made in Cornwall. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Crankarm]

Who was the very first person to eat a pie?

 

[Crankarm]

They must have been a pioneer.

 

[slowmotion]

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

A half inch shell of dried up pastry, a few diced potatoes, and a faintly thin smear of brown slime that lays claim to being meat?????????????

I don't think so.

 

[Tin Pot]

I class a suet pudding as a pie. I've never had gravy on a proper pudding.

You represent all that is wrong with life.

For shame.

 

[Tin Pot]

A half inch shell of dried up pastry, a few diced potatoes, and a faintly thin smear of brown slime that lays claim to being meat?????????????

I don't think so.

Quite right.

A pasty is essentially a lunchtime sandwich for harsh conditions before Tupperware was invented.

Pies on the other hand are glorious sustenance against the elements.

 

[slowmotion]

Quite right.
A pasty is essentially a lunchtime sandwich for harsh conditions before Tupperware was invented.

You also forgot the bit about "before people had access to edible ingredients".

 

[Keith Oates]

A half inch shell of dried up pastry, a few diced potatoes, and a faintly thin smear of brown slime that lays claim to being meat?????????????

I don't think so.

Obviously you have never ever seen or eaten a genuine Cornish Pasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[User482]

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.

[four Yorkshiremen mode] You were lucky!

We used to get boiled potatoes, a thin smear of boiled mince, and a topping of sliced shortcrust pastry. Et voila, meat and potato pie.

Can't think why I begged my mum to make me packed lunches instead...