Slightly off topic… Bimsy, I’ll phone the pub right now to order the post BMX pies for next Monday.

Carry on.

Posted 6 years ago

Fidel Gastro?

Thanks for that. Is there a term for a keyboard which is full of tea?

Posted 6 years ago

Teaboard? 🙂

Although, having said that, it might not actually be tea. You’d need to get it checked and verified by the STW food police.

Milk? Sugar? What sort of receptacle was it in ? Were the leaves hand picked on the north facing slopes above 800 feet elevation by certified virgins ?

Posted 6 years ago

Fidel Gastro?

Posted 6 years ago

Fidel Gastro very good 😆

Posted 6 years ago

Phoned the pub and the landlord said without any prompting “Right then, I’ll get the pies in.”

He knows us too well.

Posted 6 years ago

Our reputation goes before us. Crisis averted! 😀

Posted 6 years ago

*phones pub and instructs landlord to serve pies with pastry lids only* 😈

Posted 6 years ago

Vive la Resistance! Mwaaaaahhhaaaahhhaaaa!

Posted 6 years ago

Just to go back a few steps, surely ‘Cottage’, ‘Shepherds’ and ‘Fish’ are worthy of honorary pie status? They have been around as pies for much longer than the casserole with hat phenomenon.

Posted 6 years ago

It’s spreading! Where will the madness end?

Posted 6 years ago

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.

Posted 6 years ago

‘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.

Posted 6 years ago

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…

Posted 6 years ago

Known as arseless pies in this house.

Posted 6 years ago

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

Posted 6 years ago

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

A proper pie! Encased in pastry 🙂

Happy British pie week you lot!

Posted 6 years ago

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.

Posted 6 years ago

Steak pie, chips, peas and gravy pie!

Make it happen.

Posted 6 years ago

Can someone make that happen please?

EDIT: Spooky same-words-endorsement-post.

Posted 6 years ago

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

Posted 6 years ago

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

Posted 6 years ago

*puts down sexladders*

Posted 6 years ago

Posted 6 years ago

sexladders

😯

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

Posted 6 years ago

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.

Posted 6 years ago

Pi r not squared.
Pi r round.
Steak Bake r squared

Posted 6 years ago

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

Posted 6 years ago

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

Oh & 23 miles from Wigan

Posted 6 years ago

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

Posted 6 years ago

Your wife’s bits are missing from the pie?

Posted 6 years ago

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.

Posted 6 years ago

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

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..

Posted 6 years ago

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 😮

Posted 6 years ago

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.

Posted 6 years ago

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..

Posted 6 years ago

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.

Posted 6 years ago

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.

Posted 6 years ago

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.

Posted 6 years ago

Looks like Binners has written in to Viz

Link

Posted 6 years ago