Do you heat up pork pies?

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I’ve never heated one in my life, but I’m discovering some people bake the ones you buy in the supermarket and then serve them warm / hot, maybe with peas?

if you would be so kind as to let me know where you’re from, I want to know if it’s a geographic thing!!

I have only come across this once at a football match about 30 years ago and it was served with mushy peas . It was delicious but I was cold and hungry 😳.
It was Leeds at home if that's important.

To heat a pork pie is basically very, very wrong indeed, and I will canvas my MP to introduce "Porky's Law", specifically to outlaw such a heinous act.
They should be eaten cold, with salad cream 😀

Ewww!

Definitely a thing here when I was growing up (Yorkshire) to have warm pork pie and peas on bonfire night. Unfortunately couldn’t tell you what it’s actually like OP as I can’t stand pork pies, warm or cold!

No way, they're made to be eaten cold. With pickles.
Not that I've been able to eat one since I read A Kind of Loving 😬
Scotch eggs are quite nice heated up but you do get a lot of fat out of them.

I only used to eat the tiny Melton Mowbray pork pies, but I can say wholeheartedly: absolutely not. What a sensory nightmare that would be. (I hate all pies, always have, and pork pies have unfortunately made that list). I'm from East Yorkshire.

No judgement to anyone who does, of course. I just hate wet and warm food textures 😆

Never. And I live near Melton Mowbray.

Oh god. I was shocked but now thinking sounds strangely appealing and might have to experiment 😬

Canteen at my old work place served up hot scotch eggs. And they would have been heated up - no chance they had just been made. Risotto came ready made in frozen bags!

A heated up pork pie would be an utter atrocity and should be illegal!

I'm no longer a meat eater but when I still was I used to love pork pies - cold, served with pickled onions and salad.

From Lancashire and I have eaten hot pork pie about 60 years ago and yes, it is an abomination.

The hot pies up north that are had with peas aren’t pork pies by and large, they’re ’meat’ pies that are usually beef or beef and potato or some other mix if it’s a fancier place. You could get a pork pies heated up and it’d be okay but it’s not the standard pie for that kind of dish.

I used to think there was nothing more disgusting than a pork pie.

Now I know that there is.

A hot pork pie.

You don't know what you're missing. 😊

I'm from Leeds and one of my rare treats is to get a small pork pie and zap it in the microwave for a minute or so. It's so delicious warmed up!

Absolutely fucking not!

Yorkshire.

You've gone wrong.

You've also gone wrong.

Pork pies sliced very thinly with a liberal spread of piccalilli are a delight.

I love a hot pork pie with mushy peas and mint sauce, but has to good quality from a butchers

why is this a thread?

You can't knock it until you've tried it.

Go on, come on over to the dark side. 🤗

I do because I can't stand the texture of congealed fat. I prefer to heat them so it melts. Pastry also gets claggy when it's cold.

Yes! Decent pork pie from northern butchers (cured meat), heated up, mushy peas, gravy, mint sauce, maybe some pickled cabbage. Food of the gods… we had some brought down for our wedding reception and they went down a storm down south!

Surprised at this thread, didn't realise it was localised but absolutely yes in Leeds at least.

If anyone round here had a bonfire without hot pork pie, mushy peas and mint sauce there would be a riot. We had them when I was young and still do now.

We sometimes host a family bonfire party and I always go to Wilsons or Morrisons pie counter for a bulk order and lots of other people do too, massive queues. They also sell the mushy peas, but I make my own in a big pan borrowed from a friend's workplace.

I sometimes make a pork pie to serve hot, but it's nothing like those little traditional ones. Filling is usually diced pork in a nice sauce with diced potato, onion, herbs and spices, peas etc. Shortcrust pastry with a puff pastry top.

I recall that someone told me that hot pork pies and a mug of Bovril was 'de riguer' at football matches 'up North', although with today's sophisticated attendees a croissant with a polystyrene cup of Earl Grey tea is now the preferred choice in the stands.