Mmmm, Pies.

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What's your favourite pie? That's it.

― Jonnie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sweet = Apple with a good pastry liberally covered in sugar, some blackberries in there too are nice.

Savoury = Mince and Onion, plenty of rich gravy

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, now I'm very hungry.

― chris, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lemon Meringue. Yum.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

PORK!

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Savory (hot): steak and kidney
Savory (cold): Grovesnor pie (i think that's the name, the one with the eggs in - looks very cool)
Sweet: Lemon Meringue

― michael, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Meat and Potato, BUTTER PIES (apparently only sold in Warton Spar), pork pies and Mississippi Mud Pies.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A pie containing nothing but butter? That's my kind of pie.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Steak and Kidney = num num, but it's better in pudding form w/melt in mouth suet pastry.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pies in pubs = mostly disappointing. a Campaign for Real Pies organisation needs to be formed so people can eat proper pies in pubs and not just bowls of stew with a puff pastry thing floating on the top

― michael, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Too bloody right. A pie is entirely encased in pastry not a dollop of stew/casserole in an earthenware pot with a bit of puffy stuff on top.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

butter pies also available from the bakers at victoria station manchester. Very Num.

― misterjones, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is this just common to the ur... oh god whats their name, Bernard something chain of pubs? (includes the Silver Cross, the Rising Sun..) As I cannot believe pubs In General would consider that travesty to be a pie those bastards. Some mixed soggy from frozen veg in the bottom of a dish with some puffy crap over the top is a DISGRACE.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chicken 'n' Mushroom - never lets me down. Best served with chips and mushy peas. Brand-wise it has to be Hollands.

― bappsy, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not much of a one for things enclosed in pastry so I choose fish pie which isn't really a pie as such. Oh and pecan pie mmmmm. I don't like fruit pies. Or meat pies. How terribly un-English of me.

― Emma, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not just T&J Bernards, I'm afraid. The puff-lidded pot is becoming an ever present threat in the pub pie dining experience.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

noodle pie was a disgusting student favourite of mine. these days i make a rather tasty lentil pie, and i just ate a VEGGIE PORKLESS PIE from Holland and Barrett. it was greasy and disgusting. DUR!! actually my pie repertoire is rather limited, i must experiment more...

― katie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As a frequent consumer of Katie's lentil pies I can confirm they are very tasty indeed.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Holland's Cheese and Onion. Perfection. ONly available from Northern Chippies, it seems, but even Delia Smith knows how good they are and stocks them at Norwich City.

― Nathan Barley, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cajun Meat Pies, yo. They're like those fried Hostess pies, except filled with spicy meat and onions.

There's also a local maker of filled pies called Hubig's and they make a wide variety of bomb fried goo-filled pies--chocolate, pineapple, blackberry, peach, etc etc. They're really really good.

― adam, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Apple, gorgeous apple. This thread is distracting as I'm attempting some hairbrained detox scheme over the next couple of weeks, mainly to prove to myself I am not an alcoholic. But - oh - refined sugar, white flour, lard ....

― Anna, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Have you never seen Pie Pie(tm)? A pie, the filling of which is more, smaller pies! It's a must. Recently they tried Pie Pie Pie(tm), but that was not so successful.

This idea courtesy of Sugar Buzz

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Godammnit. I've already had my lunch and now this thread is making me extremely hungry for pie. Will my belly ever be free of jelly?

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the pie full of pies idea has made me very happy indeed :) A META- PIE!!!

― katie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder if the number of pies that can fit inside a pie is related to pi?

― Jonnie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think making a pie pie is highly U+K

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I will dig out the ads for pie pie in Sugar Buzz and scan them in, as I can't find any on interweb.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

in a similar manner here's a pizza with pizza and mushroom topping:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/pies/pizza-119388.jpg

― michael, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A close relative of the pecan pie is the chess pie. Why is it called a chess pie? When asking my mother-in-law (who spent something on the order of 20 years living in Memphis), she looked at me and said in a heavy, put-on accent, "'Cuz it chess pie." ("Because it's just pie.") This alone has made it one of my favorites.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My granny's (gawd rest her soul) corned beef and potato pie was THE BEST PIE EVER. also this whole pie pie thing has me sniggering in the corner of the office, bad carsmile...

― CarsmileSteve, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Googling butter pies seems to make them a North West only delicacy! Well I am shocked! I thought perhaps even those Yorkshire folk might have them too but not sa the interweb. Butter pie seems to be a favourite of Oldham supporters. It is a pie with potato and butter and is NUM.

I am very full so am safe from the DANGER NOW of this thread (thank god it was not started in the morning) - pie pie is a bad idea as the layers of pastry involved would not make a tasty treat - the joy of the pie is biting through the yummy pie outside and getting to the stuff inside - a pie pie would not provide the same high. Oh my.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I see what you mean about the pie pie problem, but could we not have something between the pies? Frexample, instead of just having pie bie, we could have an apple and apple pie pie.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now I am really starting to feel ill.

― Emma, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah now I don't think a sweet pie pie would work at all, I can only think of say a meat and potato pie pie working, first layer of outer pastry, then with a juicy meaty bit, then another pie instead with more potato. Sweet pie pastry is more crumbly and has sugar coating which wouldn't work on a pie pie, no way.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hm, not sure if I agree with the crumbliness, and the sugar coating would act as reinforcement surely? I think I might try this anyway, maybe pre backing the inner pie first to provide structure.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh my lord people the obvious answer here is KEY LIME PIE.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I bet Mr Kipling is following this thread with interest. If you see the Bramley Apple Pie Pie in your shops soon you'll know that he's been an exceedingly cheeky sod.

― Jonnie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what is a 'key lime'? this has always confused me

― michael, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Anti-answer to this question is the McDonald's Molten Apple Pie. Not a pie in any sense of the word and foul to boot.

― Pete, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely it should be the urgent and key lime pie Tracer?

― Jonnie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Which is why Pete ate 2 at the last Sussed).

― Emma, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cor a shepherd's pie pie (tasty shepherds pie wrapped in delightful pastry) might well be a winner.

― Tim, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Traditional Scotch pie of course. Mmmmm.....grease.

― Ally C, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That Tim Hopkins is a (creative) culinary genius.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Furhtermore, I wish I was enough of a technical genius to have "Look- A-Py-Py" by the Meters playing when people opened this thread.

― Tim, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

heh heh. key limes are from the Florida KEYS, are about half the size of yr normal limes, and often yellow... very few "key lime pies" are actually made from these, tho.....

mcDonald's apple pie = rub; BK pie = bus

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(And why Emma, not liking pastry - cooked loads of salmon pies last week for dinner.)

That was the first time I had ever eaten a McDonald AP - nevah again. Fish Pie Pie as well. How about a pie pasty?

― Pete, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd looked them up already, but cheers. it described the pie as both 'like lemon meringue pie' and 'a custard pie' - but which is it? these are completely different!

― michael, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They're very easy to make, mjemmeson. Leap before you look. You don't even have to cook it.

― Tracer hand, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

now i am totally baffled
both lemon meringue pies and custard pies require cooking. further Googling required

― michael, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't the interweb great?

― Jonnie, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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Exmouth Market - big pies, small pies , ones as big as your head.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't say I've EVAH been to a pie and mash shop. This quite disappoints me. Whereabouts is the one in Peckham? Although I never go to Peckham either and going just for pie and mash is odd. But I could join the library too. And go to Primark! Hey, Peckham is opening a whole new world of class!!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's more or less on the corner of Peckham High St and Peckham Hill St. I love Peckham.

― Tim, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sweet: The Preakness Pie, esentially a pecan pie with chocolate bits. Savoury: Oyster (pronounced er-ster) pie. My wife the Austrian considers pie proof of the utter lack of sophistication of Anglo-American palates.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what does she think about kein-Zinn Zinn Fleisch Süßpeise Strudel Strudel, tho, Colin?

― mark s, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, the Viennese don't the pie pie thing, although they will slice up a perfectly good meat strudel and put it in the soup. Actually, that's a good thing.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Magnum, PI, pie
http://www.vorbis.demon.co.uk/magnumpie.jpg

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DO YOU SEE!?!?!

― katie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had totally forgotten about rhubarb until Geeta mentioned it, and now I crave for the taste again. Strawberry rhubarb = godlike. Custard pie = minor deity-like.

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Behold the strength of the thickest mustache on the planet!!

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I could go for a strawberry rhubarb pie RIGHT NOW.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RickyT has just pointed out MOST VOCIFEROUSLY that Alang's picture should have been titled "Magnum, Magnum PI, Pie" and since i am currently on the interweb has CHARGED me with the responsibility of letting you all know. i thank you.

― katie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

me = still smurking re: Alang + Ktee.

― Graham, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

where can i find a pie pie. if i make one, how should the two pies be proportioned? should there be several smaller pies with filling in betwixt them all jammed under the uberpie?

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

what you talkin' bout willis?

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

pie pie.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Pie cobbler! It could work.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Surely it would be a piece of pie, covered in thin layer of filling (cherry, for example), then a layer of crust, then a layer of filling, then a layer of crust and so on and so on, so you have geographic strata of pie and crust, or like those Russian dolls.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rolldeepcrew.co.uk/pictures/wiley.jpg
Did sumba say PIES?!?!

― WHO ATE ALL DA PIES? (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

that sounds a bit too big to manage at home.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

You could have a large circular pie with two smaller semi circular pies inside, one savoury (i.e. Chicken Balti) and one sweet (i.e. Apple). Obviously this is a startlingly orginal concept that's never been tried before. Possibly.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

STRAWBERRY RHUBARB BASIL PIE!

I swear to GAWD.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

it has been confirmed by professionals that a pie pie would not work, sorry

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

you could chew up a pie and then put the resulting paste in between two other pies.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha oh no you didn't!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I love pie.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

they'd just have to be really tiny. you could do it if you had a good mold - like for those small dimple-shaped ice cubes - and if your crust was thin enough and filling smooth enough. they'd be like little wantons inside. In fact, you could use wanton wrappers.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

it has been confirmed by professionals that a pie pie would not work, sorry

Which professionals? M.F.K. Fisher (The Art of Eating) gives a recipe for some sort of tart that includes a couple layers of dough within the fruit filling.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, chicken balti pies are horrible! They seem to be putting in an appearance at football grounds of late, and they are just wrong.

Football-stadium steak-and-gravy pies are the best things ever. Especially the ones you get at Broadwood (recently crowned King of Pies). My own home-made steak pie is also good, but football pies are in a class of their own.

I have a notion to try and make a shepherd's pie pie now. If I do, I shall Report Back.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

I love the phrase "wanton wrappers."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

http://celebritybabies.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/untitled_9.JPG
WANTON WRAPPERS FOR OUR REKID LABIAL

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

We asked the lady who cooks the (very fine) meals in the (very fine) Seckforde Arms whether it was possible, she said absolutely not, well, not if you wanted the interior pastry to have any integrity at all, it'd all just go very soggy indeed. and for me, what she says, goes

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

But a shepherd's pie pie might work? I can see how double pastrying could go awry, but surely a pastry-less pie encased in pastry could work?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Wouldn't it work even if you blind baked the interior pie crust before filling it and then putting it inside the outer pie crust?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

it would, that's the problem, which is why you have to deep fry them first.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

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madchen - who knows. someone has to try it!

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Mmm, deep fried pie pies... (can you tell I live in West Central Scotland?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

plus, PLUS, i think if you coat the mini pies with egg first, it'll cut down on absorbency a little. it just might work.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

get to work already ailsa!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

No-one has yet said "When come back, please bring pie pie?" Shame on you all.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/1e5dcdb5/4481/__sr_/2d20.jpg?phhE8yCBIOdBo3wC

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

King Pie is a fine fast food chain in Namibia/S. Africa, folks.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

hi liz

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

Hello! Is that Stacey?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/simpsonsmath/piisthree1.jpg

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

yup yup :) behavin yerself?

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Splendid! I haven't had pie for days :(

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

mmm pie. but not the savoury kind. they're grody

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

of course in order to define piepie one first has to define pie ;)

hold on, is it november already?

glastonbury was AWASH with pie stalls this year, pieminister, square pie in at least two locations, the incredible yorkshire pie and peas (which i missed out on this year). various oggies and pasties as well...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

man, it's so hard to get pie in the US, at least up here in the northeast. when i was in the UK for a week, i couldnt walk down the street without passing 5 pie shops.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

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