Local pies
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northernhord
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tarannau said:
Supermarkets are fuckers for pale immitations of local food
liampreston
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Butter pies, FTW, every time. Had one for my lunch this afternoon, t'was good.
northernhord
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liampreston said:
The butter pies near you are the dogz bollox innit
pembrokestephen
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Fuck knows. Being Wales, probably some kind of processed thing made with trans-fats, seaweed, and unspeakable ovine parts.northernhoard said:Butter pies and Lancashire hotpot, whats yours?
The only traditional dishes I've encountered round here are cawl - a strange lamb'n'leek stew - laverbread, bara brith (yum), and Welsh Cakes, almost invariably made with Ye Olde Traditional Margarine and therefore vile.
As a veggie, the cawl is out, and I haven't tried laverbread yet.
northernhord
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aqua said:a good meat n potato pie from the bakers killer B goes tofor me, then a butter pie please
I am partial to a cornish pasty too, though from only one shop in Portreath
I slipped badly from my vegetarianism a couple years ago, I was bladdered in a little cornish town (cant remember the name) and I wobbled out of the pub and straight into a bakers and bought a shin beef and stilton pasty, what a mighty naughty feast indeedy
pembrokestephen
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...From The Region That Brought You...tarannau said:
yes, TRIPE!
i can see & smell ashworths pie factory from the window i'm sat next to...og ogilby said:I had an Ashworths butter pie for my dinner with beanz on it.
My fookin arse is rank this aft but thats nowt new.
http://www.ashworths.co.uk/products.html
they are altogether in the second division of pies: there's 4 pie shops nearby which make their own who are substantially better...
and a hearty 'lol' at tarannau for eating a morrisons pie and thinking it's representative.
it's like judging all beer on the flavour of carling....pembrokestephen
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Nothing wrong with Morden town centre*, that's honest-to-goodness 1960s architecture at its finest, that is.Belushi said:
*nothing that a small thermonuclear device wouldn't solve, anyway
aqua said:tarranau - how can you say you have an opinion if the only butter pie you've had was from Morrisons?
strange man, claim to be an authorative voice on food and then buy a pie from a poor supermarket chain
Er no. I've sampled pies around the Bolton area on a number of occasions. I'll give credit where it's due - even the pies in Greenhalghs (which I understand is considered barely better than Greggs locally) were a cut above the average cheaparse bakery pie here. I particularly enjoyed meat and potato pies, with a chicken pies boasting real chunks of poultry goodness - I doff my hat to the Boltonites' skills there. But butter pies were just a bit meh - a dull thing of sliced potato and a generous dribble of butter. I got bored halfway through, the sheer inconvience of having to eat the molten hot thing with a fork wearing out rapidly for such an humdrum combination of flavours. I quickly switched to more exciting pastry options.
And besides, do you really expect anyone to be surprised by butter pies. It hardly takes a leap of imagination to work out how some potatoes, onion and blob of butter taste - it's hardly a flavour sensation.
Get with the programme. Butter pies are the emperor's new clothes of the pie world - a humble potato pie forced to wear lipstick and pretend to be more exciting than it really is. It's the sartorial equivalent of a potato pie wearing a novelty tie and pretenting to be different.
Cheese in a butter pie. What an awful bastardisation - the burghers of Bolton must be weeping in mills at the sight of their local favoured pastry being so corrupted.
So it's actually now a cheese and onion pie. Or a cheese, onion and potato pie. But given the minimal butter content, how the bleeding Charlie Dickens could you even you attempt to call it a butter pie with so many ingredients and with such a low BBV (butter by volume content). Watchdog and Lynne Faulds-Wood would have a field day.
It's a sham and disgrace; a propoganda triumph not seen since millions of russians were led to believe that Joseph (Stalin) had a magic technicolour dreamcoat. The good people of Lancashire deserve better.
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So it's actually now a cheese and onion pie. Or a cheese, onion and potato pie. But given the minimal butter content, how the bleeding Charlie Dickens could you even you attempt to call it a butter pie with so many ingredients and with such a low BBV (butter by volume content). Watchdog and Lynne Faulds-Wood would have a field day.
It's a sham and disgrace; a propoganda triumph not seen since millions of russians were led to believe that Joseph (Stalin) had a magic technicolour dreamcoat. The good people of Lancashire deserve better.
(((((Lancastrians)))))
northernhord
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the cheese and onion pie is completely different to your butter pie, usually cheese and onion pies just have cheese and onion inside but i have eaten ones that have spudz in too
moonsi til
worked it out now!
...I have never tried a butter pie...or had heard of them till reading the lovely pie posts on here....my first thought of a butter pie is ....'eurgh' I just can't visulise myself eating it.....but I LOVE cornish pasties and plan to at some point for the pending festie season make a few with the fab recipe that Miss Fran posted up. I love the shape of the cornish pasty too....gotta be veggie though...
My other aim for the summer is to try one of those Pieminster ones....they seem to get rave reviews...
My other aim for the summer is to try one of those Pieminster ones....they seem to get rave reviews...
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