Comments on: Vegatble pie

By: johnesh

johnesh — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:32:57 +0000

The best one I ever saw was at Lennie’s in Old Street tube station which once advertised a “Spherd’s Pie”. They have also had other fantastic howlers down the years such as “Chicken Kebap”, “Tandory Chicken” and “Lasagnie”. To be fair I think the guy is Turkish but to me that’s all the more reason to keep an English dictionary close at hand for those difficult-to-spell words.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:28:32 +0000

This reminds me of a sign I saw outside a butcher shop for a “Y Boan Stake”.

By: MKTB FFS

MKTB FFS — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:30:20 +0000

This perennial Pieminister propaganda is testing my patience.

Should the seam or a Cornish Pasty be down the side or middle? Has to be down the side, for me Rob. The Cornish Pasty was famously invented for tin miners (or some such set of proletarian urchins) and consisted of savoury at one end of the pasty and sweet at the other end. I truly can’t think of a better invention than a two course meal encased with pastry.

By: Paddy

Paddy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:21:28 +0000

You’re quite correct JD; a pasty is emphatically not a pie.

The difference, of course, is that a pasty is more akin to a simple pastry ‘wrap’ surrounding the filling and then sealed at one edge, whereas a pie is more commonly arranged in a circular or oval format with depth - both physically and emotionally - and the pastry then (most commonly) providing a shell (though not always a complete shell).

I could talk about pies all day, but I’ve said my piece. Although if anyone wants to open up the pie debate further, I’ll be straight back on the (pastry) case.

By: JD (The Engine Room)

JD (The Engine Room) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:29:07 +0000

Yes, but at least the board-writer managed to avoid ‘potatoe’.

On a different note, I’m always wary of anything containing unspecified ‘meat’.

And is a Cornish pasty actually a pie? Surely it’s a pasty… The clue is in the name.