1. Piglet Pie company Beef Brisket pie I had at Brighton was the most delicious thing I've eaten at a football ground. And that includes hospitality at Vicarage Road.
    Get them in now!
     
  2. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    Pies are one of the things I miss most about the UK. Steak and kidney, plain pork pie smothered in English mustard, mince pies, bramley apple pie....damn now I'm hungry.
     
  3. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    I agree. The fact that they didn't come in a tin foil tray made them easier to eat while juggling with a pint too. And, temperature wise, they were perfect - you need asbestos lips to bite into the pies served at most football grounds
     
  4. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    The British Council in Vilnius had this book in its collection. One Xmas after the flotsam and jetsam that made up the ex-pat teaching community were complaining about the food they missed I made a pork pie (pork, lard, trotters, pigs' ears & tails were readily available although the "mace" had to be imported) from scratch. It was a revelation to have this huge "traditionally decorated" pie (made in a 30cm cake tin) the consumption of which actually cleanly divided the ex-pat community along national lines: the Jocks, Taffs (and me) loved it (so much so I've never willingly eaten another shop bought pork pie again) whereas the English complained that "...it didn't taste like the shop bought ones..." - go figure.
     
  5. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    I've just had a look at their, presumably under construction, webs(h)ite - were your pies on sticks?
     
  6. Unfortunately no. In a paper bag.
     
  7. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    Which is another thing in their favour - no tin foil tray or plastic outer wrapper, just eco-friendly paper packaging. I feel a letter to Duxbury coming on...
     
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  8. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Was it one of you who has a "tweet" on their site?
     
  9. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    I don't tweet, but if I did, I'd certainly tweet the praises of Piglet Pies.
     
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  10. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    Try starting up an Anglo-Filipino pie company.
     
  11. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    I would guess lard is a vital ingredient, that's not available here, but I'm definitely going to look into making my own after reading BWood's account.

    Edit, neither are kidneys
     
  12. Likewise.
     
  13. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I want a ******* pie now.
     
  14. another_mrlizard

    another_mrlizard Squad Player

    Interestingly*, I was told by the person in front of me, that the pies were something a bit special.

    I should have taken more notice, but I waited and had a doner wrap while walking home instead, which was okay.





    (*Not interesting at all, even to me)
     
  15. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Equally "interestingly", when I commented to my sister as we entered the ground on Saturday that I could smell pies, she told me that Brighton's pies are renowned for being very good (such are the wild conversations we have at football matches these days). I took the view that "very good" was relative to the usual dross served at football grounds and had no regrets that I had already eaten and wouldn't be sampling one. But it seems I was wrong. The question is, are they better than Wigan's?
     
  16. another_mrlizard

    another_mrlizard Squad Player

    I would hazard a guess that Wigan sells Holland's pies (as do Burnley, Bury and Accrington), which are not even close to being as good as Pieminster. Those are de rigueur for visits to Manchester.

    Interestingly................I've just remembered, it wasn't the pies I was told about, it was the burgers.
     
  17. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Does anybody have the telephone number of a "good" literary agent? I think I've discovered the football version of "Bridget Jones's Diary".
     
  18. another_mrlizard

    another_mrlizard Squad Player

    Now, about my pants.....
     
  19. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    v v v v v v v v v v v bad.
     
  20. Aberystwyth_Hornet

    Aberystwyth_Hornet Squad Player

    I think this thread left a mark on my subconscious because I.was craving a steak and kidney pie tonight
     
  21. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    #me2 except it's going to be steak & kidney pudding for supper tomorrow...
     
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  22. BigRossLittleRoss

    BigRossLittleRoss First Team

    How much did the pye cost ?

    £3.14 ?
     
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  23. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Pie is superior to pudding.
     
  24. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    The levels of wrongness in your statement are just astonishing.
     
  25. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Sweet or savoury? If sweet, what about crumble?
     
  26. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Aha.
    There's pudding which is generally foodstuff wrapped in a suet based pastry and there's pudding which is the generally sweet meal served after a savoury main course.

    Crumble is pudding in the 2nd sense of the word, it's definitely not a pie. Rhubarb apple and blackberry crumble is the best crumble. Mummymeister's crumble is the best crumble in the world ever.

    Here's a question. Is a pie still a pie if its cooked in a container and the pastry is only on the top?
     
  27. SteveTerry

    SteveTerry Academy Graduate

    I opted for the lamb and mint which was also glorious !! I think they had seven or 8 choices and they were all decent from what I could see

    Piglet pies all round please
     
  28. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    Yes.
     
  29. Tart.
     
  30. Leighton Buzzer

    Leighton Buzzer Reservist

    Greengage crumble is lush.
     
  31. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    It may well be; but the apple pie wouldn't have been when Mummyforza was alive, and even less so when Nanaforza was around. Ditto the crumble. Sadly, all a long time ago.
     
  32. In France, the greengage is known as the Reine Claude.
     
  33. Sort of OK

    Sort of OK Reservist

    Valid question, personally always feel cheated if the filling is just topped rather than fully encased, would also make trickier in stadium match day eating without cutlery and a resting spot.

    I wonder what defines a pie as a pie? Quite a fan of both shepherds pie and fish pie, neither of which have any pastry at all. Crumble could reasonably be considered the dessert version of these but I've never heard it referred to as a pie, hot pot is usually stew covered with sliced potato rather than mash but I've also never heard it called a pie.
     
  34. SkylaRose

    SkylaRose Administrator Staff Member

    A pie is standard literal for anything oven baked between two peices of pastery with a meat or potato filling.

    Imho, a pie should be ready made and eat out of the box but i dont like pork pies. Pukka Pies? Staple of a good pie.
     

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