If it doesn’t come entirely encased in pastry, then it isn’t a pie, it’s a bloody casserole with a hat!
Pubs that serve “pies” and then give you slop with a square of pastry that clearly wasn’t even in contact with the slop before it hit the plate should be turned into Costa coffee shops for their crimes.
(Shepherd’s pie and cottage pie are so named for historical honorary reasons, and may continue to be so.)
Americans call things the wrong name all the time. Some of them have even been known to refer to pizzas as pizza pies, so clearly they are not to be trusted with respect to pie identification.
If it doesn’t come entirely encased in pastry, then it isn’t a pie, it’s a bloody casserole with a hat!
Pubs that serve “pies” and then give you slop with a square of pastry that clearly wasn’t even in contact with the slop before it hit the plate should be turned into Costa coffee shops for their crimes.
(Shepherd’s pie and cottage pie are so named for historical honorary reasons, and may continue to be so.)
What about pumpkin pie?
No, that’s a tart. Sorry.
I’d be pretty upset if you served me a slice of pumpkin pie and it tasted tart!
I’d be pretty upset if a custard tart tasted tart, too, but that’s what it’s called.
:p
I’ve never heard anyone mention a pumpkin tart in my life, and I have a portion at Thanksgiving every year.
Seems strange to contemplate that “everyone” has been calling it the wrong name this entire time.
🤷♀️
Americans call things the wrong name all the time. Some of them have even been known to refer to pizzas as pizza pies, so clearly they are not to be trusted with respect to pie identification.
100% agree. Pot pies are not pies.
True, but it’s just semantics. You know what you’re getting whatever the word is.