We just discovered last Friday that PBS is showing “Great British Baking Show” again. We’ve been bingeing series 5 ever since. Last night we caught up with the pie episode.
@artemisastarte: No, we have none of those pies. We have something called chicken pot pie and I think I may have eaten something called lobster pie once. But all the other pies you mention? If you went to a British-themed pub restaurant or something, maybe you could order one. But they have not been naturalized, as it were.
Dumplings, we have. Many kinds. We have pierogis, empanadas, samosas, ravioli, various other small-scale meat packages. Steak and kidney pie, no. You still see mince pies sometimes at Thanksgiving but the whole point is that mincemeat isn’t meat, right?
@sabrina-phynn: I consulted Mrs. P, who grew up in the Boston area, and she says there is a sort of exemption for seafood. Crabmeat pie, lobster pie, etc. Do you know of other New England meat pies?
@plaidadder: New England has chicken and beef pot pies as well as seafood pies. But then again, consider the source: derived from those pesky Mayflower interlopers. (of which my mother was one) But not exactly like those one might find in the UK.
Oh wait. I know what happened to the meat pie. It became The Casserole.
Everyone on this post playing like they’ve never heard of Hot Pockets
Are we not counting quiche because it’s not called “pie”?
I will fight Paul Hollywood in defense of American Pie.
Everyone on this post playing like they’ve never heard of Hot Pockets
Quiche is basically egg with bits in it so I’m calling it custard.
I mean that’s a lie obviously; but we don’t call it pie either, it’s always quiche. No one bakes a “pie Lorraine.”
Also, I have never eaten a Hot Pocket. In my junk food consuming youth they didn’t have them. We made do with Twinkies and Chef Boyardee.
wtf is a “hot pocket”?
oh, and “pumpkin” pie is even better made with butternut squash instead.
I like all the kinds of pies. The Renaissance Faire has meat pies like the British ones. There was also a huge hipster craze for making hand pies over here on the west coast a little while ago, but American sweet pies are still WAY more common. I’ve never seen a lobster pie, but that sounds divine..
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