Here you go, Joe

Pork Pies

I suspect the hat is so called because its shape resembles said comestible.

Be wary of them when you are over here though. I have learned in the last 4 years that the best pork pies come from Yorkshire and are eaten with mushy peas and mint sauce. Melton Mowbrey provide a poor copy and the most of the supermarket offering are just unspeakable mutations.

To defend my native Lancashire though I must say that they have never even heard of that rare delicacy, the meat pie. And the things they label potato and meat pies are a travesty compared to the food of the Gods sold by Colin Titley in Swinton :-)

Cheers

DtG