Poll: What is pie?

[Dwarfman]

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There are many different kinds of pies both Savoury and Sweet; Pastry and Dish. To say one pie is a good manly pie and the other is a fruity womanly pie is both meaningless and retarded. As a qualified chef who has worked in the hospitality industry for the better part of 13 years, this is my professional opinion of your poll.

PS If you are trying to visually sell the concept that a meat pie is better than an apple pie please use a real pie and not some frozen job courtesy Mrs Mac or 4 and Twenty caper. Steak and Kidney (diced big so I can see the steak and kidney) cooked up with mirepoix (That's a culinary term for onion, celery, leek and carrot roughly diced) in stout and a beef stock made with beef bones simmered and skimmed for 8 hours. Forty minutes in the oven in a blind baked pie case with the flakiest muther fucking puff pastry as the top. Do not serve with ketchup. Ketchup is for the weak. IF it's a good flavoursome pie the sauce is already inside the pie. All you have to do is take a bite. Once you have done this then you can come back and talk to me about manly/good pies.

There is this concept called humour. It doesn't seem as if you have heard of it.

After working 13 hours in a hot kitchen with fuck all sleep cause the neighbours kept you awake again, no no I haven't heard of this thing called humour. Hopefully once I've had something substantial to eat and maybe a beer or two I'll be in a more chipper mood. Still humour or no you could have found better pictures for your pies man, especially the meat pie!

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the meat and fruit pies - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Lemon Meringues, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with Steak and Kidneys; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the meat and fruit pies which I believe will forever forbid the two foods living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the meaty goodness. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the meat pie is to have the superior position the fruit pie should be denied everything.

 

[Monster_user]

Still humour or no you could have found better pictures for your pies man, especially the meat pie!

That looks like the photo from Wikipedia. For those of us not used to eating Meat Pies, the Meat Pie in the photo is far from appetizing.

Actually, it looks like a pot pie with ketchup on top, which is bound to taste nasty.

 

[saintdane05]

Must... resist... Sweeney Todd reference... power... FAILING!!

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[Supertegwyn]

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There are many different kinds of pies both Savoury and Sweet; Pastry and Dish. To say one pie is a good manly pie and the other is a fruity womanly pie is both meaningless and retarded. As a qualified chef who has worked in the hospitality industry for the better part of 13 years, this is my professional opinion of your poll.

PS If you are trying to visually sell the concept that a meat pie is better than an apple pie please use a real pie and not some frozen job courtesy Mrs Mac or 4 and Twenty caper. Steak and Kidney (diced big so I can see the steak and kidney) cooked up with mirepoix (That's a culinary term for onion, celery, leek and carrot roughly diced) in stout and a beef stock made with beef bones simmered and skimmed for 8 hours. Forty minutes in the oven in a blind baked pie case with the flakiest muther fucking puff pastry as the top. Do not serve with ketchup. Ketchup is for the weak. IF it's a good flavoursome pie the sauce is already inside the pie. All you have to do is take a bite. Once you have done this then you can come back and talk to me about manly/good pies.

There is this concept called humour. It doesn't seem as if you have heard of it.

After working 13 hours in a hot kitchen with fuck all sleep cause the neighbours kept you awake again, no no I haven't heard of this thing called humour. Hopefully once I've had something substantial to eat and maybe a beer or two I'll be in a more chipper mood. Still humour or no you could have found better pictures for your pies man, especially the meat pie!

Damn, 13 hours sounds hard.

The pictures aren't the best, but I just picked the top ones on google images (sue me)

 

[Supertegwyn]

Spoiler: Pie is justice.

"Wherever injustice shows it's ugly face, the pie-man will be there. For I AM the Pieman."
"And wherever pieman is the Cupcake kid will not be far behind."

edit: On an unrelated note, can you guys see my avatar? Because I can't. For me it just shows up as a broken image. It's within the pixel range. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I can see your avatar.

It has the joker in the middle.

 

[Glass Joe]

Other: Pie is something that you should never eat because, oh my god, it is so unhealthy. Only fat people eat meat pies. That is my opinion.

 

[zidine100]

you know its bad that my first thought was 3.14 even though thats pi

anyway i refer to both, i mean come on you can not deny the manliness of apple pie. If you can, well i think you and i have a problem here, the problem is PIE!

i think i took that one a wee bit too far there.

 

[OriginalError]

...a pie is a Pizza. I voted other for lack of the real definition of pie.

 

[kortin]

No such thing as bad pie, but, if given the choice between a meat pie and a fruit pie (or rather, sweet pie), I would always choose the latter over the former.

Other: Pie is something that you should never eat because, oh my god, it is so unhealthy. Only fat people eat meat pies. That is my opinion.

Only a loser cares about such idiocies such as "healthiness".

 

[Frission]

You meat pies are all pie racist!

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Fruit pies forever!

Well actually both are good.

Must... resist... Sweeney Todd reference... power... FAILING!!

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Oh god, Mrs Lovett. You're pies got even worse. Forget what I said about meat pies.

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[Pebblig]

Both of course! Is this question being asked because in America they don't really have savoury pies? Which always confused me as a good savoury pie or pasty makes my day.

Why try and choose between the two?: "Cheese and Onion Pie for dinner", "Apple Pie for dessert" =D

 

[ms_sunlight]

Steak and kidney pie.

Yum!

Seriously, a culture that only makes sweet pies is a culture that is missing the finest expression of the pie experience.

 

[Alssadar]

Although I'm favorable of both types of pie, my mind imagines a fruit pie before a meat pie (Therefore, I picked fruit). They both fit any situation, as deliciousness inside of a pastry dough that is completely covered.

 

[juyunseen]

When I think of pie, fudge pie is what comes to mind.
And chocolate meringue.

so I think of chocolate pies

 

[Voulan]

There are meat pies, the one and only, and then there are sweet/fruit tarts and slices. That's how I've always seen it.

But then I live in New Zealand, the home of delicious meat pies, bro. They're sweet as.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Pie is something wrapped in pastry...

Although real pies have 4 and twenty blackbirds in them... somehow still alive after being baked!

Also, Pork Pies... Steak and Guinness... Steak and Kidney, Pasties (cornish of course) Chicken and Mushroom, Chicken and Vegetable... and all of the less popular, but equally awesome flavours of meat and gravy filled pies...!

 

[SpAc3man]

A pie has meat, sometimes cheese. A pie is an icon of New Zealand. A pie is a $2 Big Ben/Irvines from the school tuck shop/local dairy. A pie is every Kiwi's one true food love. A pie is a thing of beauty.

And as always...

Spoiler: BRING BACK GEORGIE PIE!

 

[Voulan]

There are meat pies, the one and only, and then there are sweet/fruit tarts and slices. That's how I've always seen it.

But then I live in New Zealand, the home of delicious meat pies, bro. They're sweet as.

Doesn't that sentence need another word? Sweet as....lemons????

Either you're not familiar with Kiwi slang, or you're trying to say that pies should have fruit in them, in which case shame on you!

 

[Aesir23]

Overall, I prefer fruit pies. The deliciousness knows no bounds.

Reading this thread has given me a huge craving for Banana Cream Pie.