Is a cottage pie, a pie?

National pie day today and I have no pies. I could rustle up a cottage pie though. Does it count?

And what do you call it when it’s made with venison?

#firstworldproblems

It is not a pie, but may be referred to as one.

Nope.

I have just tucked into a homemade turkey mince curry cottage pie thing topped with mashed sweet potato and butternut squash

Am I going to burnt at the stake?

……..and so, after a brief period of uneasy peace, the great STW Pie Wars unexpectedly erupted into brutal hostilities.

Again.

Edit: I’m out – Battle fatigue – You win this battle Fidel Gastro but not ze War !

As has been discussed many times on here, its not a pie unless it is completely encased in pastry. Certainly none of this heresy from PP

thisisnotaspoon – Member

And what do you call it when it’s made with venison?

Cottage pie.

I believe I have some authority on the matter, and can safely say that if you wish to call something a pie, a pie it shall be. Nit-picking over the expansiveness of indigestible flour-based casing is a pastime reserved for bitter northerners.

A stew with a lid IS A PIE.

it really isn’t.

So why is lamb special?

You’ve done it now….

Oh yes it is!

It’s the only pie I like, I can’t have it taken away from me!

It’s potatoes on mince. Not a pie.

And what do you call it when it’s made with venison?

A disappointment.

So why is lamb special?

Because they are cute and fluffy.

Apple pie for dessert last night

A whole sharing-size pie eaten between me, a 5 year old and a 4 year old. Good finish to a good dinner!

I believe I have some authority on the matter, and can safely say that if you wish to call something a pie, a pie it shall be. Nit-picking over the expansiveness of indigestible flour-based casing is a pastime reserved for bitter northerners.

Right up the last word I was agreeing.

Stoner – Member

I believe I have some authority on the matter

Yeah! Stoner has a finger in every pie!

All nine pies.

A stew with a lid IS A PIE.

No, it’s a stew with a hat. A terminally disappointing pie analogue for the taste-free, lazy and desperate.

I believe I have some authority on the matter

Unless your surname is Patak, you can FRO.

It’s potatoes on mince. Not a pie.

I agree, but on the other hand, everyone knows exactly what is meant by fish, shepherd’s or cottage pie.

Yeah they know that a fish pie is revolting.

Stoner – Member

I believe I have some authority

And R Kelly believes he can fly, yet neither are true.

What is true is that pies are encased with pastry, and R Kelly garners sexual gratification from urinating on children.

Pick your side Stoner,
PICK YOUR SIDE!!! 👿

ALERT: Spanner in works

Are you going to try to stand by your assertion now, stoner?

A stew with a lid IS A PIE.

No it’s a LIE. A Pie needs pastry on all sides, especially the bottom and sides with the top being the least important.

EDIT: wow a lot of posts in the 10 minutes between reading and posting…

It’s a real pie as long as you put a real cottage in it.

A Pie needs pastry on all sides, especially the bottom and sides with the top being the least important.

Whoooah there, you’re in danger of confusing your pies with your tarts, and you don’t want to do that.

When you go to a pub and order a pie, you should be presented with this…

the legendary cow pie in the George Hotel in Keswick, which I shall be parting in on Saturday night, and the pinnacle of the art form

Anything presented in a ceramic container is quite frankly justification for burning the premises down

^^^ Note the pastry on the sides…..

WAIT A MINUTE! 😯

Its part of an enormous pie which would have been fully pastry-encased. Whats important is the density. Note the solidity, even when unconstrained by pastry. The stuff that you get in ceramic bowls with a lid is effectively soup. And putting some puff pastry over a bowl off soup does not a pie make

Are you going to try to stand by your assertion now, stoner?

Stoner’s Pie Law still stands – if it is called a pie, it is a pie.

Etymologically one might say that what Maccy D’s have done there is made a fruit-based sausage roll. However, they want to call it a pie, so a pie it shall be.

Whats important is the density.

woah there. Are you changing the rules now you know you’re losing the battle?

That’s a pie.

No rules are being changed. When this thing of beauty was cooked, it was cooked fully encased in pastry. This is a portion of said pie.

If you need a ladle to serve it, it can’t be a pie, even with the token addition of a piece of puff pastry

R Kelly – Member

R Kelly’s Law still stands – if it is called R Kelly, it is R Kelly.

Careful what you wish for… 💡

PROPIEGANDA

prop-ie-gan-da

[prop-eye-gan-duh]

noun

1.

information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely by food based dictators to propagate the continued tyranny of pastry based hegemony

2.

the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.

😆

Stop oppressing me Fidel!

binners – Member

If you need a ladle to serve it, it can’t be a pie, even with the token addition of a piece of puff pastry

Absolutely.
Pie-buts exist because you can slap buttered bread above and below a pie.
One cannot achieve this with a soupy, hatted abomination.

#alternativetruth