Be Excellent To Each Other

When I go to a strange restaurant I usually get a steak pie* with tatties, preferably mashed ones. It's a safe option & it's my favourite meal.
*Obviously if they don't have steak pie I go for something else, but it's my first choice.

However, I've noticed the disturbing trend of selling stew with a hat as steak pie is becoming more & more popular. Sometimes the stew's lovely, but the pastry is always rubbish

Can this still be called a pie or are they filthy liars?

In my book, it's not a pie unless the pastry encases the entire contents. A porcelain bowl is not pastry.

I whole-heartedly endorse Malibu's pie-puritanism.

I definitely prefer a full casing, like. Hatted stews are oddly annoying and unsatisfying to eat. Even if they're massive and filling.

I, too, wish to subscribe to this school of thought.

Stu with a hat on is a hairy pie?

Sounds like they're fobbing you off with a hot pot to me. A great dish but not a pie by any mark.

Also: Open sandwiches? I'll have my other half of the bread please.

I concur with the consensus, certainly.

Indeed, what a world we would live in if every chef type agreed.

However a dish of tasty meat sealed with a pastry lid does make a half-decent alternative as you still get the lovely moist puff pastry underside. It's those charlatans that cook the stew & pastry separately that rile me.

Hark at Mr Original Thought there.

Couldn't agree more. A pie should be able to be picked up and eaten.

What if it's a pot pie?

Who voted pie?!

I vote to ban whoever that was.

The only OriginalThought^TM I could've had in this situation was 'pies make excellent hockey sticks', so I kept it to myself.

This is the sort of out of the pot thinking we need if this country is going to get out of this recession, you know.

I did. Because there is more than one type of pie. A pie with a lid only is a pot pie as it tends to come in a pot.

I've always read your posts in the voice of Eric Cartman - this has confirmed it for me.

Read the first post again. Stew with a hat, not lid.

Lid implies that it's sealed & cooked together, whereas in actuality the pastry is cooked separately hence it's a hat sat on top of some stew.

Shepherd's pie has no pastry at all. Also cottage pie, and usually fish pie.

Oh, yes, that can GTFF. That, in my mind, is now a pastry garnish; a decoration not meant for consumption. Not a pie.

Mash and meat products, they are all shit too.

Yeah, it's a hotpot, not a pie.

I'll probably get ripped to bits for saying this too but pastry = shit. I really, really don't like it. I also don't like butter which may explain it but pastry is just a mouthful of dry cack.

At least with a pot pie you can take the lid off, hand it to some fat friend and eat the nice innards. I'm a pudding man myself (like suet pudding).

Wullie. I know what you mean but a pot pie can come like that or without a top at all.

Faure's the only Pie worth it.

Pastry isn't dry if it's done well.

I agree!

Can't help with the pie query, sorry. I like pastry though.

Fucking hell, JC.

Then it's being made wrong.

Hold on, I just saw this. Immediate ban.

Then it's greasy and just tastes like butter.

I'm fucking starving now.

JC is the most wrong he's ever been in this thread, and that's saying something.

In which case it's still being made badly.

I LIKE PIES!

I also detest butter. It tickles my throat in a retching kind of way.

You're looking more and more like you should be in the Deep South, guy.

I don't like biscuits either. Well, unless they're ginger snaps dunked in tea or proper yank soft baked cookies.

I'll wipe my cock then next time, Dimrill.

I'll be there in a few days.

You're a better man than I am. Giving your bed up to a tramp for the night is extremely commendable.

so basically you like stew.... just order stew!!

That'll be £2 please
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I want a pie now... but can't get Hollands pies down here... bloody pukka pies..

Mmm. 1) WTF is an open sandwich
2) No, it's not a pie
3) But this is even less of a pie. (Or food, for that matter)

My two "awful food" weaknesses are Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pies and Spam.

I once bought 3 Fray Bentos pies

"Who takes pictures of kebabs?"

Fray Bentos's "we make all the pies" ad campaign was fried gold.