Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 06:59 AM

Attention Tiger sessioneers:- Wednesdays GAME PIE has been procured from A.Littles of Hedon. Be there or be square!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:35 AM

I'll get pie with a little help...

I think the 'stand there like a pork pie' is half a saying. The full one is in reference to someone with nothing to do -

"Stood there like a pork pie at a Jewish wedding."

D.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: English Jon
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:49 AM

You've been had folks. This isn't about whether or not one person wants to reamin at a session - IT'S A SHAMELESS ATTEMPT TO GET US ALL TO COME!!!!!

The lure of the pie.....mmmmmm

Cheers,
Jon

Bill Topping and sons of Doncaster...by royal appointment.

The only decent thing about this benighted town, IMHO.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 10:06 AM

Oh Dear poor English Jon
The highlight of the session is apparently an old gadgy who plays flamingos.
Check this thread
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=100821&messages=4
or BS: the true path

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 10:13 AM

Oh dear oh dear how wrong can you be its an instrumental session so if everyones got a gob full of growler noone sings ,simple innit!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 10:27 AM

Now that my beloved has shown me how our DVD camera works, I could lovingly film wednesdays pies at The Tiger and stick em up on youtube. Fancy that?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 12:22 PM

Eeuuuuoowwwwwwwww!!

Flutes and pie crumbs...


Eeeeeeeeeeeuuuuooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Anglogeezer
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 03:17 PM

A Pork Pie at the TIGER in living colour?!?!
Go for it Paco!!
There'll surely be an OSCAR in it for best wildlife documentry!!
Jake

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 04:29 AM

Its a bugger when one cant eat a pie in the privacy of the pub snug

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 03:30 PM

If you had to choose the ultimate pork pie for a session - where would you get it?

Keith Poynter of Heanor in Derbyshire was the best pork pie and sausage maker I ever knew. But he's retired.

Theres a shop in Bakewell opposite the newsagent that's quite good. Not in Keith's class, but pretty decent.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Soldier boy
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 09:10 PM

Butchers are already sharpening their knives and drooling in antisipation over the way this thread is changing.
Best Pork Pie Contest anyone?
Sorry, being flippant, let's try and stick to the original opening thread.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 09:34 PM

All I'm saying if you're taking a pie into a session - risking censure from those who don't like to disturb the aura of culture and the sepulchral tone of traditional folksong - have a good pie!

My preference is always for one with little chunks of meat - rather than a smooth textured filling. Also a good thick shiny brown crust that has a gravy type seasoning and some evidence of the oven is nice - perhaps a little blackened burnt bit on the top.

There is no point in risking the ire of the crowd, and then having an unsatifactory pie experience.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Betsy
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 03:13 AM

Surely "Simple Simon" the Pie man , is British tradition.
Ergo, meat Pies are British Tradition.
So whether it's Pork or another kind of meat - the Pie is King, although,we must not forget to praise it's cousin - the Pasty.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 03:18 AM

My DVD camera is all primed up and ready to go, (Penny did it, I can't) so stand by for a short film of tonights pies on youtube tomorrow. I will attempt to do a link to it from this thread.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST,ES&L
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 04:55 AM

Betsy
Simple Simon *met* a pieman (going to the fair)
Ergo, Simon was not the pieman.
ES&L

post scriptum: "it" in the possessive does *not* take an apostophe.

Pedantry, alive and kicking.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST,New bould
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 10:52 AM

He does come from South Bank son - not Linthorpe!

Having said that there is nothing in the tale to say that Simon was not also a pieman.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Soldier boy
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 11:02 AM

Point taken weelittle drummer.
Your description of your preferred pie fits my taste precisely but give me lots of jelly as well.
Oh gawd me juices are salivating at the prospect - I'm just gonna have to dash out and get meself one of them juicy buggers from Jones the butcher!!

By the way weelittle drummer I also play a drum (a snare drum) with a morris band. Are we related?

Here's a good tip for you my fellow little drummer.

To prevent drumsticks from slipping out of your hands and skewering the audience on a hot sweaty day simply rub some pork pie jelly onto your hands and the miraculous adhesive properties of the jelly prevents said calamity from ever occuring .

Marvellous things pork pies!!
Lots of uses!!

Bugger!! I've started on Jones's Pork pie and me finger's got stuck on the full stop ......button.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Betsy
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 11:02 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST,ES&L
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 12:12 PM

Betsy my dear,
Using the language for almost 60 years, eh?
Sorry but you DID use "it" in the possessive - it should have been "quiet" (sic) obvious to an ill-educated penguin that I was referring to later in the same line ".....praise it's cousin....".

Oh, and "children" in the possessive (line 4) takes an apostophe...
....and "postscript" is one word
....and.....

Best wishes
ES&L

p.s. maybe I need to use one of those "smiley" things when I post next time; detecting tongue-in-cheek posts is apparently not the forte of some :-)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 01:23 PM

girls girls girls :-)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 01:47 PM

In truth I can take or leave the jelly.

Evenings at folk clubs (as we all know) can be of variable quality. All kinds of odd buggers turn up and want to sing.

However the prospect of a nibble at your pie, as recruited collier bolts from a future of domestic bliss with a Kate Rusby soundalike, or as the cabin boy gets his tool out on the Golden Vanity - well it won't be a completely wasted evening as the prison ship lies waiting in the bay, and you wish the young bugger had kept his hands off Trevelyan's corn.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 04:06 AM

You correctly point out: "it" in the possessive does *not* take an apostophe.

It doesn't take an apostrophe either. :-)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST,ES&L
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 05:02 AM

Excellent, Snuffy - it's (sic) a fair cop - I like the cut of your jib! :-)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST,geoff wright
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:23 AM

Try the sessions at the Royal Hotel @ Dungworth. They are famous for their non-pork pies, home-made, of enormous proportions. Just the job before a hard evening of playing.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 10:00 AM

"I and most others on Mudcat tolerate typing and other grammar mistakes - shit happens . You should learn to do the same."

Betsy, you are so right. Even I make mistakes.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 05:48 PM

What a name Dungworth, what is caking night, sorry to hear about the daffs, have they gone in to your non pork pies

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 19 Apr 07 - 06:07 PM

Ignore the bit about daffs, Having never heard of Dungworth I did a quick google and saw a ref to caking night, and an article about a villages daffs display being vandalised, I assumed that the village was Dungworth,I was wrong the story quoted a resident called Dungworth

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST,Forest of Dean
Date: 22 Feb 17 - 03:57 AM

Sadly it seems pies are back in the news again, a betting scam in UK sport.
Soccer this time not cycling for a chance.

https://uk.yahoo.com/sports/news/pie-eating-sutton-player-faces-double-inquiry-140301811--sow.html

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 Feb 17 - 05:52 AM

Newtongrange Accordion and Fiddle Club (last Monday of the month) includes a locally made hot Scotch mutton pie in the ticket price.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Feb 17 - 05:46 PM

How do two porky pies make love?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Feb 17 - 05:46 PM

With great care.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Feb 17 - 08:54 PM

Is somebody supposed to respond to that, EBarnacle???   ;-)



How 'bout a well-executed groan?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST,Mathew
Date: 22 Feb 17 - 09:07 PM

I apologize for my ignorance but is it specific to pies being an issue or is it food in general?

Banning pork pies seems oddly specific

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Feb 17 - 09:13 PM

Thank you, Joe.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Feb 17 - 03:09 AM

It's groans you want eh? Musical ones even!

Well - where would you weigh a pie?

All together now...............

Some where over the rainbow, weigh a ............................





I'll get my coat - you can keep the mustard - bah!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 Feb 17 - 07:36 AM

Mr Red:
I thought it was:
"If you weigh whales in a wailway station, where would you weigh a pie?"
Same punchline though . . .

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Feb 17 - 03:54 PM

I keep wonder, what's a pork pie? Is it like a U.S. chicken pot pie (chicken, gravy, vegetables but with pork), or maybe a pork pasty?
And what's it got to do with a Pork Pie Hat?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Feb 17 - 05:05 PM

we have English Pork pies here too, Joe, but we have not imported the custom of having them at sessions. They are very yummy, tho I've never had it with pickles/condiments

Pork pie hat -

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Feb 17 - 04:36 AM

Not a fan of pies myself: a couple of pub sessions I go to provide sandwiches and other snacks at half-time: all very welcome, a gift from the pub management.
A 10-year old thread, so wondering if they ever resolved the original dilemma?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Feb 17 - 04:53 AM

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

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 24 Feb 17 - 03:17 PM

you must remember this...a pie is just a pie...

the best pie experience i had in Lancashire was my Aunty Eileen (St Helens/Irish) making potato cakes.

i asked my mum to have a go at making them....but it weren't reet.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: EBarnacle
Date: 25 Feb 17 - 12:37 AM

Try looking up a potato latke recipe. Properly done, they are delectable. Overcooked, they are like hockey pucks.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: JHW
Date: 25 Feb 17 - 07:02 AM

From: John MacKenzie - PM
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 04:18 AM

♫Who ate all the pies?
Who ate all the pies?
You fat bastard
You fat bastard
You ate all the pies♪♫

Tune :- Knees up Mother Brown.
Football culture; don't you just love it?

cf own goal

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: Anglogeezer
Date: 25 Feb 17 - 08:57 AM

Some interesting answers ..... BUT did no-one stop to think it all just a leg-pull??

Sort of PIE IN THE SKY!

J

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: GUEST,Ripov
Date: 25 Feb 17 - 04:06 PM

You mean - somebody might have been telling porkies?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Pork Pies in Sessions
From: EBarnacle
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 12:11 AM

Ol' Porkypine was Pogo's friend.