It's British Pie Week!This week the UK is celebrating a British classic which fills many people with joy - the pie!Around 75% of the British population eat a pie at least once a month, and the pie-making industry is worth £1.2 billion a year in the UK alone.Historians think the pie's origin can be traced back to ancient Egypt, where a recipe for chicken pie was discovered carved into a tablet around 2,000 BC.From there the Ancient Greeks picked up a recipe for pastry, then the Romans joined in and started wrapping meat in pastry.
Pork pies are good.
Shepard's pie was my favourite.Now it's fruit crumble.
Why are they called shepherds pie when the main ingredient is beef? And there's no pastry as Mags pointed out. Has to be pastry.
Try eating that at the football... while holding your bovril.
Bovril at the football Used to get beef tea out of the vending machine after swimming too.Maybe I'm not cut out to be vegetarian.......
Mmmmm... cow juice...
They're not really pies though pabs are they? Not like Mrs Miggins pies from her pie shoppe or 'Cut Me Own Throat Dibblers' Pies with personalities.
Shepherd's pie is traditionally made with leftover lamb. Cottage pie is beef.
hot cow juice. Mmmmmmmmmm
beef tea?!?!
Yeah... milk, two sugars...
Yep. That was the 70's. Get out the pool full of plasters and enough chlorine to turn your eyes red. Have a towel fight with Darren Mattinglys gang while holding onto your duffle bag for dear life so they don't steal all your clothes and once you're dressed in your brown flares brown jumper and monkey boots treat yourself to some monster munch and a cup of hot beef tea.
(Nice avatar change btw. Stay cool!)
Spinach pie! (if you still eat eggs). One of my favorites when I was a kid. I'd like to try pork pie someday.I learned recently that the "pastry" of original meat pies was just flour and water.. not meant to be eaten. Rather it was the cooking vessel and the transport container all in one. I like foods wrapped in pastry that are easily portable.
Before I stopped eating dead animals
'Nother veggie here