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The Controversial Pie Thread

EastEnder said:
Biscuits goddamnit!!! :mad:

They're called BISCUITS!!!

Damn yanks and their corruption of our glorious language!

:(
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Biscuits are cool and we Brits have a type of biscuit we call a cookie. In the States they have cookies - these are like our cookies only far nicer and they come in massively varied variations. So they do.
 
*Miss Daisy* said:
Ice Cream snob,,,,
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*walks off haughtily with a ben and jerry's tub of icecream*

I must say that the icecream I ate in Italy was absoloutley divine, however they are complelety different and frankly the Italians wouldn't dream of calling what the Americans put in a tub icecream, and rightly so. But it's still lovely. :p
 
happytobe... said:
*walks off haughtily with a ben and jerry's tub of icecream*

I must say that the icecream I ate in Italy was absoloutley divine, however they are complelety different and frankly the Italians wouldn't dream of calling what the Americans put in a tub icecream, and rightly so. But it's still lovely. :p
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:( I've not tasted real italian ice cream, I've not even been out of this country apart from when i went to france straight after a glasto festie with parents when i was 10,,,and that was a bit mad,,
 
...and our biscuit barrels tend to come in one style albeit with various different piccies on the outside while US cookie jars come in numerous sizes, shapes, colours, cats, dogs, houses, witches, Elvis, Presidents, Babies (yuk!) .... and on and on...cars, helecopters, planes, gnomes, and on and on...

Thank the Romans for ice cream and vote Communista!
 
LilMissHissyFit said:
No sounds wonderful, where can I get some :confused: :D
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Well you can usually get it at film rental places or in the supermarkets. I think Waitrose sell it. And at Vue cinema's. Have to just keep your eye out i guess. I haven't had any in ages, it's yum!
 
*Miss Daisy* said:
:( I've not tasted real italian ice cream, I've not even been out of this country apart from when i went to france straight after a glasto festie with parents when i was 10,,,and that was a bit mad,,
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:( do you remember eating any french icecream? That's good too 'cos there is actual fruit in it. I don't often like strawberry icecream but in France and Italy it's lovely.

You should get a really cheap flight to Italy and just eat some icecream. And drink some coffee and eat pizza! And pasta! ooo, I want to go again. My friend has a house there :eek: shared with some other people and I went a couple of years ago.

anyway erm pies.....icecream pie anyone? :rolleyes:
 
Italian icecream is amazing. :cool:

As for pies, a proper pie needs pastry all round it, as others have said. Shepherds pies and cotage pies can call themselves pies if they want seeing as the name seems to have stuck and just saying shepherd or a cottage sounds a bit stupid, but they must realise they are not really pies. They were probably just cooked in the same pie tin originally and the name stuck I'd imagine.
All this talk of pastries and samosas is frankly ridiculous. They're quite obviously nothing to do with pies, otherwise they wouldn't be called 'pastries' and 'samosas', they'd be called 'pies'!! :rolleyes: :mad:
 
Pastry all round - the pie goodness entirely encased in pastry pie fun.

We should call a pie amnesty - and everyone can hand in their pretenders :mad:

There may be variations but without top, bottom and sides it is no pie.
 
Custard Tarts have no tops = Not pie!

What about a bakewell tart? That has a kind of top, albeit it an icing top. Mind you proper bakewells are bakewell puddings, rather than pies or tarts. :p
 
EastEnder said:
A pie is circular, therefore it doesn't have sides, it just has a side.

:p
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You are the only person maintaining circularity of pie thus far. I restate my case that pie may have sides.

It may be square or rectangular in shape.

Or even rhomboid.
 
Orang Utan said:
EastEnder - what about Pukka Pies and the like?
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Pukka Pies are not pukka.

If they're not circular - and I mean precisely circular - they're not pies.

A protractor may be used to verify the genuine pieness of a pie, if unsure.

:cool:
 
Wikipedia said:
Legend has it that Marco Polo introduced to Italy some products from China, including ice cream, the piñata and pasta, especially spaghetti. However, these legends are highly dubious — for instance, there is evidence that pasta was known in Italy since antiquity.
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So maybe none of them are true after all! :D
 
pukka pies are pretty shit, but then again so are hollands, whatever wolfie says... of the chain pie shops, greenhalgh's is probably the best. but they are all pretty poor when compared to the real thing - made small scale in a bakery.

in preston (the home of the pie), you can tell the good pie shops by looking at their front door. if there's a queue coming out of it at 11.30, then you know it's going to be good... even better if most of the people in the queue are over 60. :)

as to what constitutes a pie - while in it's purest form, it should be enclosed entirely in pastry (with a hole to let out steam), i'm willing to accept a crusty suet lid with no enclosure on the bottom part for meat & potato.

as the legendary (now lost) pie butty thread explained, the correct way to serve a pie is in a barm cake/tea cake/bap/whatever they call it round your parts...

mmmm :)
 
trashpony said:
I always feel a bit cheated by a pie that only has a top and no sides. I think it should ideally be enclosed.

A tart is open and only has pastry on the base and sides.
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:) It feels like you've been ripped off,, a big disappointment,, :(


A pie is pastry top, bottom and side/s,,
A tart is,,, see trashys post
 
steak & kidney pie OH MY GOD!!!
i had the best one i've ever tasted in a pub on the royal mile in edinburgh
we were there for 4 nights & i had the same dinner every night (in different pubs)
absolutely DIVINE!!!

i'm quite partial to banoffee when it comes to sweets pies mmm
 
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