meat pies

[Dennis R. Preston]

>When I've been to "the place where things should not be eaten"
>(except in retaurants with foreign-trained cooks), the Hostess fruit
>pie-(UGH!)like things are called "rolls" and may contain something
>like meat (e.g., "sausage roll"). (I say "something like meat"
>beucase sausages in that country often contain about 53.76% sawdust,
>doubtless a good source of fiber and propbably a National Health
>Service plan to keep fat down in the populace.) The pies are indeed
>like big fruit pies (but a good deal lardier than anything I've ever
>encoutered in any other food culture [sic]). I've never seen a
>Shepherd's pie (or Toad-in-the-hole) which was not a casserole-like.


dInIs (who often remembers meals but not what country he was in)




>Natalie said James Wilcox said:
>>  that meat pies were regular pies (as in apple pies or whatever)
>>but contained ground meat along with things like potatoes and onions.
>>I asked him if they were like shepherd's pie, and he said sort of but
>>not exactly -- that he thought of shepherd's pie as more of a casserole-
>>type dish.
>
>
>My understanding of meat pies was that they were like pasties or those
>Hostess fruit pies in that they are small enough to hold in your hand and
>eat like a sandwich--but maybe I've misunderstood what I've read about
>them.  (Shepherd's pie can be very pie-like or casserole-like.)
>
>Lynne
>
>
>M Lynne Murphy
>Lecturer in Linguistics
>School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
>University of Sussex
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