BS: Worlds worst pie

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 08:49 AM

Hee, hee!!

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 07:03 AM

and where would you weigh a pie?













Somewhere over the rainbow ......................................


I'll get my coat....

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 08 Dec 10 - 05:17 AM

When I was a child up until my early teens I hated sweet mincemeat pies. The filling was far too spicy for me and any candy peel used to make me gag. Back then that was the worst pie for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 08:12 PM

Bee-dubya-ell
A good one:)

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 07:42 PM

There are pies, and there are pies. I think it's illogical to talk about pies meant as main dishes and pies meant as desserts as if they were of the same ilk. They aren't. The only thing a chicken pot pie and an apple pie have in common is that they both have crusts. Comparing them is like comparing a chocolate cake and a loaf of pumpernickel, or a glazed donut and bagel. They have similar outward appearances, but that's all.

Having said that, I don't get the point of meat pies. They're nothing but stew with a crust. Why bother? Just make the friggin' stew and spend the time you'd waste making the crust playing guitar.

As for dessert pies, some may be better than others, but even the worst is still better than any cake (with the possible exception of German chocolate or carrot cake).

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 03:31 PM

People go through significant effort to dehydrate grapes, through mechanical or sun drying processes and I applaud their zeal for the job.

IMO, it is just wrong, and not too efficient, to put them through the reverse process to hydrate them again, in a pie, or other baked product. Much is lost through such foolhardy exploits.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 03:25 PM

"Raisin pie. I love raisins, I love pie crust. Together--yuck"

Exactly my feelings on that pie-species topic.

Raisins have their rightful place, but not in a pie, not in rice pudding, nor on top of cookies. In those combinations they are "Yuck"

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 03:05 PM

Malice in Dunderland . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 02:34 PM

Malice! Who the fuck is malice?

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 01:55 PM

I'm not sure that counts, IvanB. I think there has to be some degree of malice aforethought.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 11:36 AM

Raisin pie. I love raisins, I love pie crust. Together--yuck.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: IvanB
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 11:31 AM

Back in the days of my youth, there were three couples of us who would get together to play euchre, then have refreshments after. Around Thanksgiving one of the other wives offered to bring dessert when we were meeting at our place. She made a pumpkin pie. We bit into it and tried not to make any faces, etc., until her husband remarked "This is God-awful. What'd you do to it?" Seems she thought all you had to do is pour a can of pumpkin into a pie shell and bake it. Luckily we had something around to substitute.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 10:04 PM

By the way, gnu; remember, from that other thread, when you said: "I love hair pie, but it has been years since I've had a bite."

For the luvagod, man, don't BITE on THAT !!

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: gnu
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:26 PM

I had a steak and kidney pie once. Tasted liked urine to me. I have had hair pie that... nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 05:11 PM

I was buried at "Toby Spout at the outfall of Square Wood Reservoir" according to the leaflet on the "Denby and Cumberworth circular trail".

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 03:47 PM

"Denby Dale pie of 1887... buried with ceremony".
Do you have the coordinates of where it was buried? It may be better with age?

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 03:39 PM

Surely it must be the Denby Dale pie of 1887, cooked for Queen Victoria's Jubilee. It was declared uneatable and buried with ceremony.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 03:12 PM

Worst pie throwing video:

Pie throwing

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Art Thieme
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 03:10 PM

He told me he ate 'em for the fiber.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 03:08 PM

He musta bin pie eyed

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Art Thieme
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 03:06 PM

The absolute worst pie had to be the one my uncle was eating when he died!!!!!!!

The cow sat on him...

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 02:41 PM

"I saw a Cafe in Grantown on Spey serving deep fried piza."
You mean you haven't tried the deep fried Mars Bar yet?
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 02:13 PM

Vesta Curries

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 01:21 PM

I often wondered about Mrs Wagner's pies in the Paul Simon song America. Anybody know what they're like.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 12:03 PM

Just remembered a couple of something alleged to be chicken pot pies that I bought in Chicago years ago in bachelor days. The very worst excuse for food that I have ever seen packaged and marketed. I might have known they were just too cheap to be credible. A smear of greasy gravy, a couple of shriveled peas, a couple of rubbery cubes of carrot, and a shred of stringy chicken meat, between pieces of cardboard.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Maryrrf
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 11:56 AM

I can't stand the taste of kidney - but I have eaten a fried Mars bar and although it sounds disgusting it was sublime. Coated in some kind of crumbs, deep fried and the chocolate melts and gets a slightly 'burned' flavor, then sprinkled with powdered sugar (as if more sugar was needed). I just tried it the one time - wouldn't want to make a habit of it because I can't imagine how many calories it has.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:26 AM

I saw a Cafe in Grantown on Spey serving deep fried piza.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: acegardener
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 07:10 AM

I always thought those scotch pies were a piss take after I ordered one in a chippy near Maryhill years ago. It was dropped in the chip fryer to warm it up. In later years I used to hear references to the Glasgow delicacy of deap fried mars bars. Never seen one but after remembering the greasy mutton pie, I don't disbelieve it.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 06:41 AM

I made mud pies when I was 4 or 5 stones for potatoes, grass and dandelion leaves for cabbage but luckily I didn't force my cousin of the same age to eat it every time.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 06:34 AM

I adore steak and kidney, and especially I like kidneys, just fried, or devilled.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 06:29 AM

Sweeney Todd's Crusty Specials tak a bit of beating
"anything with a 'soggy bottom'."
Don't be personal!
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 04:21 AM

Steak and kidney pie is also not one of my favourites, just my opinion but to me kidney tastes fucking vile, just the slightest taste brings on the gag reflex.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 03:15 AM

And of course anything with a 'soggy bottom'.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 06 Dec 10 - 03:14 AM

A friend years ago told be about 'Stumpy pie' which was made for her when she was a girl living in Devon. It is pig's trotter with the jelly it makes, all served up in a pie. Sounds horrible to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 12:25 PM

You can find vinegar pie in the cookbooks of recipes from chuckwagons and other times when ingredients might be scarce. We had a grape arbor and my mother canned grapes, grapes jelly, grape jam, and grape juice for the winter. Grape pie made from canned grapes included the seeds....

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Maryrrf
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 10:23 AM

I googled "Vinegar" pie and it probably isn't half bad - it was pointed out that the vinegar does the same basic thing that lemon juice would to - add some acidity to the basic sugar taste. But it's one of those recipes that was developed for when you were broke and really wanted something sweet and didn't have much to work with (one lady said her great grandmother who emigrated to the prairies and lived in a sod house in Kansas used to make it in the winter when they had used up all the dried fruit). Why would anyone want to do that nowadays when most of us have, at any given time, access to much better ingredients. It's in the same category with Tomato Soup Cake and Ritz Cracker Pie . I've had both and while they are edible, and the Ritz Cracker Pie does kinda sorta taste like apple pie, why would you substitute processed crackers for apples...?

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Slag
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 05:49 AM

Wow Spaw, no wonder meth is illegal!

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 04:02 PM

Talking of crap pies, has anyone ever fell foul of an Ivor Dewdney pie down in Exeter?

I used to like the loook of them - because they were big pies. However the taste never failed to disappoint.

I believe the poet Philip Larkin used to love Ivor Dewdney's creations and beg friends who were visiting Exeter to get him one. A certain masochism involved there I think. No wonder he was miserable.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: JHW
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 07:12 AM

Never have much luck with magpies (or any pie in the sky)

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 06:50 AM

Well it was part of being young, and I look back with great fondness on all the really crap pies I've eaten.

Lyons Individual Fruit Pies - the fruit filling always tasted the same, whatever the supposed flavour - 100% sugar!

Walls Steak and Kidney in attactive cellophane packet with a blue and red badge. It was before microwaves - they used to be lodged for weeks in a little stove/display that sat on the pub counter. The filling was so hot - the taste was something approaching an oxo cube dropped in nitric acid. Each pie had at least one lump of gristle that you could have mended the sole of your tuf town shoes with.

Pukka Pies mentioned before. these were an exciting addition to 1960's cuisine - there were exotic flavours like Chicken and mushroom - with meat that was recognisably and unarguably chicken. Unfortunately the pastry - particularly of the base did bear an uncanny resemblance to thick damp cardboard.

In 1965, My Uncle George from Brecksville, Ohio came and paid us his one and only visit. Wherever he went - he kept requesting Pizza Pie. In Lincolnshire at the time - Pizza was completely unknown. So people just thought it was his exotic pronunciation and they kept bringing him a piece of pie.
He went home a disappointed man. It wasn't til years later, we got together as a family and fathomed out the source of his frustration.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: LadyJean
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 01:09 AM

We in the local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism did an event, many years ago, with a Scottish theme. We planned on serving haggis, but were thwarted by state laws that prohibited the sale of several indgrediants, most notably sheep's lungs. So the lady in charge of the feast used I know not what creature's innards in a pie, almost nobody wanted to eat, certainly not me.

Scottish meat pies as served at the Highland Games are sublime. Of course, over here, they use lamb. My taste buds do bud ups for weeks before the games, knowing they're going to get a meat pie with a dab of worcestershire sauce on top.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Beer
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 11:40 PM

Sounds like f...ing porridge to me Rapparre. I can't look at that stuff anymore although it probably saved my live as the main meal.
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Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 09:46 PM

There's a restaurant out this way that makes oatmeal pie. Damned good -- sort of like a pecan pie.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 07:22 PM

Giok... hahahahahahaa.

EBarnacle.... "As a song, it's not great." Really? Gee. I bet the royalties would surprise you then. You should get your stuff on the radio every day. Big money I hear.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 07:06 PM

I suppose plastic ones (number 7)

The good ones were already gone in number 4.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 06:54 PM

Drunk man goes into a fairground, on his way home from the pub. He decides to have a go on the coconut shy, where more by good luck than good judgement, he won a prize, and this prize was a tortoise [turtle in US]
The following evening he turned up at the fairground again, drunk as usual, had another go on the coconut shy, and won a prize again.
The showman asked him what prize he would like this time, and he said.
"Can I have another one of those crusty meat pies like last night, please?"

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 06:44 PM

Tortiere.

(Although, when it's well made....)

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: Acorn4
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 06:21 PM

Leicester produces "Pukka Pies", sometimes referred to be locals as "Puke-ah Pies" - the pastry is like eating a wet book, although they have improved somewhat lately.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 05:32 PM

As a song, it's not great. As a piece of artistic reference, tying a lot of the culture of the previous 15 years together, it's fantastic. It certainly appealed to all sorts of people who had lived through that era..including yours truly. In that era and in others before and since, mostly since, there have been more than a few songs which made their mark by referring to other songs and events.

Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Dec 10 - 05:12 PM

Live by the pie, die by the pie?!