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About Pies

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SheDoneAlreadyDoneHadHerses · 03/02/2016 21:28

Honestly, I have to stop wearing my judgeypants but they're so comfortable

My friend has posted his tea on facebook. It's cottage pie.

Yum!, I hear you cry.

NO. It's mince, mash, THEN A PASTRY LID.

WHHHHHHHHHHYYYYY???

I'm all for double carbing, but really. REALLY.

It's an abomination. (Mind you, I get a little huffy when cottage and shepherds is used interchangeably for pies)

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QueenArseClangers · 04/02/2016 12:17

Grin x2boys

x2boys · 04/02/2016 12:23

Last one Queen what do you call a meat pie on top.of Wigan town hall ? Something to ate/eight.

Notso · 04/02/2016 12:24

My first thought was weird but we have minced beef pie with mash so it's not weird at all.
Pie in a barm is invented by a genius, how else do you eat a take away pie without making a right old mess?

Salted peanuts in bolognese is just plain odd!

LemonBreeland · 04/02/2016 12:27

I've only read the first page and I feel ill reading about some of these meals!

x2boys · 04/02/2016 12:31

Wigan town hall clock*

KittyLovesPaintingOhYes · 04/02/2016 14:20

I quite fancy the peanutty bolognese...

ladymariner · 04/02/2016 14:59

I've screenshot the Crap en Croute.....sounds bloody lovely, as does the fish finger thing from earlier!!! Just call me Delia.....

Mysillydog · 04/02/2016 15:06

Dh wants to start a petition to ban the use of the word pie unless the food is entirely encased in pastry. The disappointment he feels when ordering a pie in a pub only to get a casserole with a puff pastry top is to behold. It's a cobbler not a pie he wails as the rest of the family look on unsympathetically.

ladymariner · 04/02/2016 15:21

A Pukka pie and a cup of Bovril at the footie on a cold Saturday afternoon is part of our national heritage.

LordTrash · 04/02/2016 15:24

We still talk about my aunt's silver wedding meal, where my dad ordered a steak pie and got mince with boiled potatoes and NO PASTRY.

I'd name and shame the restaurant, if I could remember what it was called. Some place on the Bristol airport road.

jonquil1 · 04/02/2016 15:26

My best pie was the one I had yesterday.Had to hang around for 3/4hr somewhere yesterday afternoon, it was bitterly cold, so dived into a corner caff. Steak and kidney pie, thick gravy when I cut into it, chips, peas and a mug of builders tea = £2.50.

Bloody brilliant is was.

They do chicken and mushroom pie, too. Will prolly be going back Grin

x2boys · 04/02/2016 15:40

carrs pasties and pies are the best.

QueenArseClangers · 04/02/2016 15:58

...and Ye Olde Pasty Shoppe on Churchgate too x2boys.

x2boys · 04/02/2016 16:01

yes ye olde paty shoppe is also very good i got some frozen carrs pasties from the market once i just couldnt get them right so we stick to pre cooked now.

Owllady · 04/02/2016 16:04

My husband once ordered a cheese and potato pie in a pub which had a pastry lid Confused we couldn't stop laughing
Where we come from cheese and potato pie, is basically just mashed potato with cheese, topped with cheese and sliced tomato. Usually served with beans and bacon

x2boys · 04/02/2016 16:13

would that not be more of a flan though Owllady?

CheshireChat · 04/02/2016 16:18

I add mustard and garlic to my macaroni and cheese and it's lovely. And feta as well actually.

CauliflowerBalti · 04/02/2016 16:27

Homity Pie doesn't have a lid and is definitely still a pie. A bloody gorgeous pie. Pastry base, potato, cheese, leeks, onions, more cheese, a load of butter, bit more cheese... Oh yes.

Cottage pie with a pastry lid on is no different to meat pie with mash on the side. And pie and mash is a totally winning double-carb combination, oh yes. I think we need to keep open minds, people.

ElderlyKoreanLady · 04/02/2016 17:00

I've seen pictures of that hotdog/chicken/beans concoction on Facebook many times and it really gives me the boak. I know people have different tastes in foods but seriously, slow cooking hotdogs in beans with chicken is beyond disgusting.

MrsHathaway · 04/02/2016 17:21

Cottage pie with bread and butter, spooned in to make a pretty inelegant double-carb sandwich, is a thing of beauty.

DM used to make shepherd's pie with leftover roast lamb, a tin of baked beans, and the leftover potatoes made into mash. Monday staple. ::drools nostalgically::

WitchWay · 04/02/2016 17:34

Agree with Owllady about no pastry in a cheese & potato pie. Just cheesy mash with fried onion & bacon stirred in when I make it. Grilled with more cheese on top & served with fried tomatoes.

We call it Glop Pie Grin

NotMeNotYouNotAnyone · 04/02/2016 17:54

I love a cheese and potato pie!

I had a macaroni and cheese pie in Scotland Hmm

PitPatKitKat · 04/02/2016 17:59

Baker close to my childhood home used to do lovely pies filled with roast chicken in gravy and topped with mash and skirlie (oatmeal/onion stuffing).

Yum.

remembermewhen · 04/02/2016 18:08

I'm Scottish
There's nothing unusual at all here about a pie in a bun,
Very rarely eat it but a hot steak & gravy pie with ketchup in a floury bap = stuff dreams are made of.

remembermewhen · 04/02/2016 18:15

Skirlie - food of the gods

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