Hello ES & L , pedantic – perhaps another word when you finish reading this .
Maybe I should have written "as in" the Pie Man.
I was saving my typing finger. (Notice in the singular)
Simple Simon is also a childrens game, a crap song and whatever else.
That fact he met a Pie man entitles me to use "ergo" to make the assertion (which I did),that, meat Pies by forming part of this extremely old rhyme, are British Tradition and not as you deduced that he was a Pie man.
Further, I have been using the English language for almost 60 years now, and your Post script is a load of bollocks – learn to read and understand it .
I did not use "it's" in the possessive, it would be quiet clear to an ill-educated penguin to see that "it's" is used as an abbreviation for "it is", and therefore, the apostrophe is used correctly.
I and most others on Mudcat tolerate typing and other grammar mistakes - shit happens . You should learn to do the same.