[Closed] Oi! Binners! What have you started...!

[url= http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/03/09/martial-law-declared-uk-casserole-pastry-lid-passed-pie/ ]It's spreading! Where will the madness end?[/url]

Someone earlier ruined the idea of pie. They mentioned serving pie with 'butter beans'! Butter beans for crissakes!

Butter beans have their place - but that place is nowhere near an honest pie.

'Tis better to have a pie with a proper (shortcrust pastry) lid than a pie with a soggy bottom.

The look of wonder and delight on my hubby's face when the chippy in Hawes brought out his meat pie, chips, gravy and baked beans*, to see that it was home made and not just a 'Hollands' style, will stay in my memory for many years.

* it should be peas with a pie lad not beans.

to see that it was home made and not just a 'Hollands' style

Careful, you were one step away from Artisan there and you know what that means...

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Known as arseless pies in this house.

If it's a supermarket meat pie, that's probably inaccurate.

I'm about to have steak pie, chips, peas and gravy.

A proper pie! Encased in pastry 🙂

Happy British pie week you lot!

I wonder if you could combine that into a pie in it's own right, like DrP/J(?) did with his breakfast pie? Pastry case, your meatiness, chips on top, mushy peas on that, drown the lot in gravy and then whack the lid on.

Steak pie, chips, peas and gravy pie!

Make it happen.

Can someone make that happen please?

EDIT: Spooky same-words-endorsement-post.

It is almost as if giving you a set of stepladders has established some sort of telepathic link.

...and you can stop doing that or you will crack a rib.

*puts down sexladders*

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sexladders

Presumably that's what you need to get it up?

Something else has just occurred to me.

I think you'll find that YOU are the southerner in this particular debate.

I believe we need to apply an Inverse Square Law here.

Your authority to pass judgement on pies is inversely proportional to the square of the number of miles you are from Wigan. So if you're in the Shetland Islands you can sod right off, and if you're in Cornwall then come back with a pastie.

It's kinda related to ?.r^2, the formula for calculating the area of a pie crust.

Pi r [b]not[/b] squared.
Pi r round.
Steak Bake r squared

Too bloody confusing all this to-ing and fro-ing with "what is & what isn't/doesn't" constitute a Pie, even geographical location and ladders have entered the conversation.

I had Thai Pie

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Chicken & gravy pie with peppered & buttered sprouts the bit missing was the wife's.

Oh & 23 miles from Wigan

That's a confusing pie. I want to mock it, but not as much as I want to try it.

Your wife's bits are missing from the pie?

Here's a sucker punch from north of the border, Tunnocks (of the famous Caramel Wafers, Teacakes etc.) also do steak pies, beautiful meat fully encased in shortcrust pastry but only available from the Tunnocks shop on the Main St. in Uddingston. You cannot even begin to imagine how good they are. Haha.

Harry_the_Spider - Member
More people with reserved seats on The Sun Ship.

• Customer Service “Advisors” that have to read from a script.
• “Facilitators”, whatever they are.
• Anyone who says “Colleague Announcement” or “Partner Announcement” over a public address system.
• Companies with a recorded message that states “Your business is important to us, please hold”. If it was that important you would have enough people to answer the phone.

Off you go. Pack your Factor 50

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Seems a bit harsh to include Macauley Culkin on the passenger list for the sunbound space missile. Whilst his crimes are indeed many and varied, I'm pretty sure he isn't guilty of any of the misdemeanours listed and I've yet to see him express any concrete opinions on the whole pie question..

bearnecessities - Member

That's a confusing pie. I want to mock it, but not as much as I want to try it.

No it was just badly described by me!
Its a Chicken & gravy pie. The sprouts are just added in the space where my wife's portion was, not her bits Cougar 😮

Simple steak and Guinness pie for me tonight, and by pie I obviously mean entirely encased in short crust pastry.
I had it with chips, for dipping in the extra gravy. Chips that were delivered as potatoes this morning, not tipped out of a bag from the freezer.

I'm Southern, but I think I've got this right.

Currently in Qatar (no pies for a hundreds of miles) - thank you boys for reminding me of home! And a thread full of smiles and laughs..

I've yet to see him express any concrete opinions on the whole pie question..

funkrodent - no offence but it's attitudes like yours that encourage the dim witted to continue along their path of crimes against bakery products.

There is no "whole pie question".

Pastry lid AND case = Pie.

Anything else = inferior foodstuffs.

Mmmm. Whole Pie...

Oh and for the record - binners picture of the " pie with the sides missing" is I believe a section which has been hewn from larger pie which WILL of course have had a pastry case...... Because it's a pie.

Seems a bit harsh to include Macauley Culkin on the passenger list for the sunbound space missile.

He asked Father Christmas for a "Gravel Bike". He got a one way trip into the heart of our nearest star.

Can we add people who use the term Life Hack to the guest list on the SunShip™? They can sit next to those who are confused about the meaning of pie.

Looks like Binners has written in to Viz

[url= http://viz.co.uk/monks-and-pies/ ]Link[/url]

It occurs to me that all the lid-only haters are protesting too much.
They secretly yearn to sample the wider pie experiences the world has to offer but they feel restricted by their macho northern culture.

Guys - it's OK to be Pie-curious. 🙂 No one is judging you.

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I am Pie-Curious.

I'd eat it, but don't ask me to call it pie.

I am Pie-Curious.

I'd eat it, but don't ask me to call it pie.

However being the wrong side of 50 and dragged up in Shropshire I can honestly say that the Toupee Pie is a newish imposter (never saw the like back then).

I remember the first time I witnessed one of these and the feeling of total disappointment, betrayal! I'd been lied to, duped into thinking I was going to get a proper pie. (where's my ****in pastry!!)

I blame the health conscious brigade trying to healthy-up the pie by removing 70% of the pastry.

But why bother when you're gonna have it with proper chips (or buttery mash)gravy and token veg (peas, carrots whatever but not broccoli - has no place beside a pie)

We all know that the best kind of pie is a Steak Pie?

... and the best kind of steak for a pie is Scotch Beef?

Wonder what the people who promote Scotch Beef think of the whole pie issue?.....

[url= http://www.scotchbeefandlamb.com/the-perfect-steak-pie-for-new-years-day/ ]http://www.scotchbeefandlamb.com/the-perfect-steak-pie-for-new-years-day/[/url]

This is what I think of when I think Steak pie.
I've eaten a variation of this every New Years Day of my life and also at every funeral I've ever been to .
It's a Scottish thing. Our version occasionally contains beef link sausages. Yum.

perchypanther - Member

We all know that the best kind of pie is a Steak Pie?

... and the best kind of steak for a pie is Scotch Beef?

Wonder what the people who promote Scotch Beef think of the whole pie issue?.....

Common Pie-makers mistake forgetting to put the bottom pastry in the dish (probably rushing because the photographer needed to go home for a proper pie)

Or may be this is a north of the Border thing (and not wanting to stereo-type) saving a few pennies by leaving out the lower casing of pastry!!

Just for you PP....

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😆

I am a broadminded chap but there have to be limits.

Toupee Pie

Surely, a Toupie?

Just for you PP....

Nice one Fidel...

*sniff* It's getting a bit dusty in here....

Might shed a tear and moisten the freestyle puff pastry lid of my pie 🙂

So what do shepherds eat?

And what is this?

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Pastry case, but lid replaced by hot pot? But there's no pot, so what is it? What would Betty sell it as in the Rovers?

We have two butchers in Dunblane, both make excellent pies.

However, they swing both ways. Small pies = pastry surround. Large pies = pastry lid.

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And what is this?

Not pie.

But it's not pot either is it?

But it's not pot either is it?

Don't care. Not pie.

It's a Meat Pot "Pie" ^^^^