Miami, June 2002. Cuban hairy pie.

Have you any idea how long it takes to catch a couple o' dozen blackbirds?

I have a big net and a very good stun gun.

liver and onion pie martin knowles closley followed by their pork pies and lamb curry

According to Mr Gigha, Kendalls in Pateley Bridge is worth a visit .....

http://paganum.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/the-pork-pie-challenge-who-makes-the-best-pork-pies/

Pork Pie and Mushy Pea sounds like a work of genius to me ....

Been a expert in pies and having a done a long research on the best pie shops in the town i can confirm that it is a tie between Martin Knowles in Elwick road and Robert Moores of King Owsey

Doesn't anyone here make their own pies? They beat the bought ones by parsecs.

Where's Parsecs?

Next to the Carotid.

I have been trying to convince Chinese bakers for over two years that pies would be a great seller. Then they present me with something out of a steamer, which incidentally aren't too bad and they think it's a pie. No, it's meat in steamed pastry which is white and soft. It should be brown and crispy.

But I would donate a bollock for pie and peas. The nearest I know is in Kuala Lumpur...

I used to like Barmers pies as a kid (not sure if thats how it was spelt).

A Spender Bollock Pie?

Very hairy, I suspect.

True, but you'd only get one.

Did you know soy sauce contains human hair??

Sleep tight.

Yep the spelling's the same now as it was then: i - t , just like in computers an' stuff.

Our lass makes ellish pies, even making her own pastry rather than using processed stuff. Beef in stout, fish and leek, sausagemeat and apricot....I'll just wipe the slaver off the keyboard.

By the way, does anyone think stargazy pies are a practical joke by the Cornish that people take seriously? I mean, a whole fish in a pie with the heads and tails sticking out? Maybe whoever invented it was really lazy and/or pissed and couldn't be bothered to chop the fish up.

Do you think stargazy pies actually exist!?

howay man Mr Head man

Antidisestblishmentarianism: how do you spell it.....IT. First heard around 1953 in infants school.

It was "Constantinople" in my school 'cos we were all world-aware intellectuals, not drab political historians. :smileysarebackbutwhatthefook:

I'm coming round yours for tea

Certainly stargazy pies really exist. Has no-one read 'The Mousehole Cat', by Antonia Barber?

Here's Tom the fisherman, setting off for work: "Tomorrow night, Mowzer, my handsome, we shall eat morgy-broth, baked hake, ling, fairmaids, soused scad and star-gazy pie."

Balmers!!! The only pie worth talking about.

Holch's pies, in Harrogate used to be lovely, and the smell was divine, if you were walking past the shop when they were baking them.
But generally, I make me own, like Mrs Nottingham.

ps Is Holch's still there, Talbot? Or anyone?

Ah yes, The Mousehole Cat, of course, who's never read that!*
So the stargazy pie was invented in 1991 then?

* (quickly looks up Antonia Barber in Google...)

When I lived in Paris I introduced a whole load of people to pies but I was only making a rod for my own back: "Kem on, make us ze ozer pie zen!".

Really, Richard, you know nothing. No wonder Parisians have to speak to you in pidgin english.

The Mousehole Cat is based on an old Cornish legend, and so stargazy pie was invented long ago.

From the fountain of all knowledge...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bawcock%27s_Eve



http://londonfood.typepad.com/stuff/200 ... triou.html

London???

No it wasn't! The BBC invented it!!

We went to Mousehole but turned round and went back to Penzance, which is a very nice place I must say