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  • Oi! Binners! What have you started…!
  • Alex
    Full Member

    I have nothing to add other than STW pie/not pie threads never fail to make me laugh out loud. Having read a few, I now regularly embarrass my wife and kids by brandishing the menu and haranguing a member of staff to wheel the chef out. At which point I challenge that individual to answer the all important question ‘is this a PROPER pie or a stew with a hat?’

    mogrim
    Full Member

    If you went into the George and stated that their Cow Pie isn’t actually a pie at all, I doubt you’d make it out alive. It is the Mecca for aficionado’s of the crust. And that is heresy!

    Stand it on its edge and it’s stew with a hat.

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    You’d probably end up in a pie.

    Binski, The Pack Horse in Affetside used to be a bastion of pie. Not been for a while, but it used to be ace. You need to check it out and report back.

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    dustytrails
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    As this picture of the legendary Cow Pie at the George Hotel in Keswick clearly shows, its pie, chips and gravy that are the essential ingredients. The other bits are just added as a sort of garnish, to add a splash of colour. And you wouldn’t eat them as that will fill valuable tummy space that could instead be filled with more pie

    Broccoli again…Must be a northern thing….Peas…could get away with peas at a push!!

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    As this picture of the legendary Cow Pie at the George Hotel in Keswick clearly shows

    …there’s nae pastry roon the edges.
    Which is perfectly OK in my book.
    Looks like a fine pie to me.

    This is clearly a portion of pie cut from a larger dish. My question to Binners would be this.

    If you get a portion of that particular pie cut out of the middle of the large dish, with no “finished edges” is it still a pie?

    Stoner
    Free Member

    Casseroles with pastry lids are legitimate pies.

    This xenophobic pie-ism shames the forum. It’s always the same angry mob of self-interested, ante-diluvian knuckle-draggers who can’t bear the thought that all those meals they’ve endured, chewing through acres of dry, plasterboard-encased stews has been for nought.

    You’ve lost the battle. You’ve lost the war. Concede defeat, you will be only a footnote in the culinary history of the nation, outdated and destined for obscurity along with the Babycham advocates and Findus Pancake stalwarts.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Casseroles with pastry lids are legitimate pies.

    Finally, a voice of reason in a world of madness.

    Welcome to the resistance Comrade Stoner.

    ….and for the record A good New Year / Funeral Steak pie ( Puff Pastry Lid only) should be accompanied as a minimum with Mashed potatoes, Peas, Butter beans and carrots.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    Casseroles with pastry lids are legitimate pies.

    *Stands up*

    I agree.

    *Hides behind Stoner*

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    Makes note.

    Stoner. Three dots and a crossing out.

    Stoner
    Free Member

    I carry scars of this fight going back years.

    I salute my own indefatigability in the face of the hysterical nazism of the pie-chuckers. Fight on.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Makes note.

    *also makes note regarding Harry the Varmint 😉

    binners
    Full Member

    *adds names to zee list*

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Don’t tell them your name Stoner

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Casseroles with pastry lids are legitimate pies.

    It’s not often you’re right, but you’re wrong this time.

    binners
    Full Member

    Actually… thinking about it…. are you lot southerners?

    Asking a southerners opinion on these matters is liking asking an eskimo’s opinion on the best sun cream

    You lot regard these as pies…

    And they have a puff pastry top, which we all know is verbotten in a proper pie. puff pastry indeed? Pfft!

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Actually… thinking about it…. are you lot southerners?

    I think you’ll find that YOU are the southerner in this particular debate. By a good couple of hundred miles. 😀

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Good gods man, you’re not even English? Get in the (North) sea and take your deep-fried Mars bars and Irn Bru with you.

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    I think you’ll find that YOU are the southerner in this particular debate. By a good couple of hundred miles.

    Says the deep fried gastronaut.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Good god man, you’re not even English?

    Indeed, I am truly blessed. It must be a terrible affliction.

    Get in the (North) sea and take your deep-fried Mars bars Pies and Irn Bru with you.

    Look! Pastry all the way round and everything. 🙂

    Alex
    Full Member

    To be fair to Mark (Stoner), he’s consistent is his defence of the indefensible. Amusing, vaguely logical and as I said consistent. Wrong tho, so very, very wrong….

    Pigface
    Free Member

    Binners be careful or you will cause a split in the Varmint ranks, the Pukka may not be the best pie but it has a filling encased with pastry.

    For you fools who think a pie is a bowl with a toupee answer this simple question, could you pick your monstrosity up and eat it while walking along?

    dustytrails
    Full Member

    Oxford dictionary “

    A baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry

    Cambridge dictionary “

    pie meaning, definition, what is pie: a type of food made with meat, vegetables, or fruit covered in pastry and baked

    Obvs regional variation!!!

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    could you pick your monstrosity up and eat it while walking along?

    A reliable indicator of quality , that!

    Pigface
    Free Member

    I expect you think plastic is a delicacy up there 😆

    Ro5ey
    Free Member

    The wife ask my lad what he wanted for his 5th birth meal a few months back.

    “Meat pie please Mum” came his immediate reply.

    It was truly a tear in the eye proud moment….. 🙂

    And it’s little times like that, you know you’re might actually be doing a decent job as a parent.

    ThePinkster
    Full Member

    I don’t know if I dare ask this, but….

    …….what about Steak & Kidney Pudding?

    binners
    Full Member

    I presume you’re talking about babies yeads? A pudding is a thing of exquisite beauty, especially when served with chips peas and gravy, and certainly more qualified to be included in the pie family than anything served in a little dish in Wetherspoons with a token piece of puff pastry on its head

    ThePinkster
    Full Member

    So even though it’s a pudding it’s a pie?

    Glad we’ve got that one sorted out. 😉

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    I don’t know if I dare ask this, but….

    …….what about Steak & Kidney Pudding?
    I was contemplating the same question but chickened out (meaty pun not intended). I’m sure it must count as it’s meat enclosed in suet crust PASTRY.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    I must be deeply emotional at the moment but this threads making me giggle like a Girl, a Girl in “Selfie upload to BooFace I need a Hug” mode.

    So thanks for the gigglefestickle.

    😀

    Do these count, I so desperately do not want to be jettisoned into space and succumb to the inevitable “splat” as we plop into molten pie filling..

    mogrim
    Full Member

    Actually… thinking about it…. are you lot southerners?

    Asking a southerners opinion on these matters is liking asking an eskimo’s opinion on the best sun cream

    Even in the grim, dreary, northern wastelands a ray of enlightenment may occasionally shine.

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    Pies are like pornography – no fixed definition, but you can usually tell.

    Coyote
    Free Member

    Hey bikebouy, they look more like flan or tart based products.

    Would you like vegetarian or non vegetarian meal on your flight?

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    It’s quite simple:

    Pastry lid = Pie

    No pastry lid = Not a pie. Could be a tart, flan or a badger, but it’s not a pie.

    These, are not pies.

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    I presume you’re talking about babies yeads? A pudding is a thing of exquisite beauty, especially when served with chips peas and gravy, and certainly more qualified to be included in the pie family than anything served in a little dish in Wetherspoons with a token piece of puff pastry on its head

    In all fairness to T’spoons, they do a very reasonable steak pudding, chips, pies & gravy (in a little jug). All washed down with a pint of bitter for about 60p*. Smashing.

    *A blatant lie, but still dirt cheap.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Luke Piewalker’s brave struggle against the evil Em-pie-re 🙂

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Could be a tart, flan or a badger

    Don’t mention *badgers. Harry the Spider will want to whack it with a coal shovel.

    * …or enormous hedgehogs.

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    It was more of a trench warfare type slashing action. Very effective.

    binners
    Full Member

    Those things up there have ‘fillings’ that sound like they belong on a panini that you’d buy at a cafe bar in Chorlton, and could in no way be defined as pies. No pie worthy of the name would feature pumpkin seeds

    Once my revolution is complete the persons responsible will be dragged from their homes in early morning raids and paraded through the streets to answer for their crimes

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Once my revolution is complete the persons responsible will be dragged from their homes in early morning raids and paraded through the streets to answer for their crimes

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