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03 Dec 10 - 09:14 AM (#3045530) Subject: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Dave Hanson This has surely got to be the ' scotch pie ' ie. a mutton pie, absolutely disgusting, it's a practical joke that the Scots play on tourists. We were once given them in a packed lunch whilst on a fishing holiday on the River Nith, we threw them on the river bank and even the rats wouldn't eat them. Dave H |
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03 Dec 10 - 09:18 AM (#3045534) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: John MacKenzie I must admit that, cold they aren't much fun. However, a well made and warmed Mutton Pie, is food for the gods. Ye shud hae bunged it in yer oxter tae warm up a wee bittie first, mebbes! |
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03 Dec 10 - 09:37 AM (#3045545) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,Amergin I never could stand humble pie.... |
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03 Dec 10 - 09:41 AM (#3045550) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: MGM·Lion American Pie ~ I was one of those who couldn't stand Don McLean's famous but interminable song after about the 5th verse. "So goodbye..." ~M~ |
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03 Dec 10 - 09:55 AM (#3045556) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: VirginiaTam This one Ssshhhhh Don't tell SINSULL |
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03 Dec 10 - 09:55 AM (#3045557) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: JennyO Pie in the sky.... |
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03 Dec 10 - 10:28 AM (#3045581) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Rapparee "...This is moose turd pie! But it's just the way I like it!" |
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03 Dec 10 - 10:56 AM (#3045605) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: EBarnacle But good! |
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03 Dec 10 - 11:20 AM (#3045616) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Ed T Shaving cream pie, the ones they throw at politicians. I suspect poopie pie would rate so, though not lacking in texture. Pork rind pie wouild likely be bad for your veins. (here isa crust) pork rind pie How about sardine pie sardine pie How would spam pie rate (this one is even upside down)http://www.plaidponyvintage.com/recipes/recipe-pages/recipe-spampie.html Toe nail pie http://www.flickr.com/photos/zonkout/617588930/ Booger pie http://debbidoesdinnerhealthy.blogspot.com/2010/11/booger-pie.html Dog Food Pot Pie Quebec has a sugar pie, it may one of the most honest pies...that is what many of them are anyway. |
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03 Dec 10 - 11:45 AM (#3045628) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Beer Most of us all made "Mud Pie". Never cared to eat it though. ad. |
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03 Dec 10 - 12:22 PM (#3045644) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Bobert The world's worst pie is "mince-meat pie", hands down... Nasty!!! |
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03 Dec 10 - 12:25 PM (#3045648) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: olddude Anything my mom makes, you need a chain saw to cut through the crust .. sorry ma ... truth is truth |
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03 Dec 10 - 01:14 PM (#3045681) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: gnu Bobert... proper mincemeat pie, made with venison (Virginia White Tailed Deer), served piping hot with vanilla ice cream is a treat. |
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03 Dec 10 - 02:29 PM (#3045719) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Rapparee Bobert, I've got a recipe (carried over the Oregon Trail to California from Pike County, Missouri -- really!) for venison mincement that would change your mind in a minute. How about vinegar pie? There's a ton of recipes for it, including one by Emeril. |
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03 Dec 10 - 02:37 PM (#3045729) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: gnu Vinegar pie... sounds like a ruse to me. I shant even google it. |
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03 Dec 10 - 03:05 PM (#3045743) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Arthur_itus Snail pie with salt pork and walnuts |
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03 Dec 10 - 03:24 PM (#3045758) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: catspaw49 To MtheGM:Oh Michael, I am so sorry for you......To live in this world and not understand the deep meanings of "American Pie".............***sigh***...........T'is a sad thing, a very sad thing....................Allow me to help you through this troubling morass and put you back on the track of all righteousness. Once again Mudcat comes to your rescue. CLICK HERE and absorb the real meaning of this great pie! Spaw (LMAO) |
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03 Dec 10 - 05:04 PM (#3045820) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: gnu Spaw... whatever did you type into the filter to get that? And, thanks alison for an amazing explantion. So many facts I did not know. |
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03 Dec 10 - 05:12 PM (#3045821) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: WalkaboutsVerse Live by the pie, die by the pie?! |
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03 Dec 10 - 05:32 PM (#3045837) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: EBarnacle 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. |
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03 Dec 10 - 06:21 PM (#3045861) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Acorn4 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. |
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03 Dec 10 - 06:44 PM (#3045876) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Rapparee Tortiere. (Although, when it's well made....) |
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03 Dec 10 - 06:54 PM (#3045882) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: John MacKenzie 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?" |
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03 Dec 10 - 07:06 PM (#3045886) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Bill D I suppose plastic ones (number 7) The good ones were already gone in number 4. |
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03 Dec 10 - 07:22 PM (#3045894) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: gnu 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. |
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03 Dec 10 - 09:46 PM (#3045969) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Rapparee There's a restaurant out this way that makes oatmeal pie. Damned good -- sort of like a pecan pie. |
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03 Dec 10 - 11:40 PM (#3046004) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Beer 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. ad. |
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04 Dec 10 - 01:09 AM (#3046028) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: LadyJean 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. |
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04 Dec 10 - 06:50 AM (#3046116) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,Alan Whittle 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. |
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04 Dec 10 - 07:12 AM (#3046129) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: JHW Never have much luck with magpies (or any pie in the sky) |
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04 Dec 10 - 04:02 PM (#3046403) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,Alan Whittle 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. |
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05 Dec 10 - 05:49 AM (#3046763) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Slag Wow Spaw, no wonder meth is illegal! |
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05 Dec 10 - 10:23 AM (#3046839) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Maryrrf 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...? |
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05 Dec 10 - 12:25 PM (#3046914) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Rapparee 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.... |
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06 Dec 10 - 03:14 AM (#3047246) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,Patsy 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. |
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06 Dec 10 - 03:15 AM (#3047247) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,Patsy And of course anything with a 'soggy bottom'. |
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06 Dec 10 - 04:21 AM (#3047257) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Dave Hanson 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 |
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06 Dec 10 - 06:29 AM (#3047301) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Jim Carroll Sweeney Todd's Crusty Specials tak a bit of beating "anything with a 'soggy bottom'." Don't be personal! Jim Carroll |
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06 Dec 10 - 06:34 AM (#3047305) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: John MacKenzie I adore steak and kidney, and especially I like kidneys, just fried, or devilled. |
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06 Dec 10 - 06:41 AM (#3047310) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,Patsy 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. |
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06 Dec 10 - 07:10 AM (#3047329) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: acegardener 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. |
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06 Dec 10 - 07:26 AM (#3047343) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Dave Hanson I saw a Cafe in Grantown on Spey serving deep fried piza. Dave H |
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06 Dec 10 - 11:56 AM (#3047507) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Maryrrf 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. |
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06 Dec 10 - 12:03 PM (#3047514) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: frogprince 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. |
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06 Dec 10 - 01:21 PM (#3047566) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,Alan Whittle I often wondered about Mrs Wagner's pies in the Paul Simon song America. Anybody know what they're like. |
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06 Dec 10 - 02:13 PM (#3047598) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: John MacKenzie Vesta Curries |
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06 Dec 10 - 02:41 PM (#3047613) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Jim Carroll "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 |
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06 Dec 10 - 03:06 PM (#3047627) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Art Thieme The absolute worst pie had to be the one my uncle was eating when he died!!!!!!! The cow sat on him... Art |
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06 Dec 10 - 03:08 PM (#3047628) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: John MacKenzie He musta bin pie eyed |
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06 Dec 10 - 03:10 PM (#3047630) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Art Thieme He told me he ate 'em for the fiber. Art |
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06 Dec 10 - 03:12 PM (#3047634) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Ed T Worst pie throwing video: Pie throwing |
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06 Dec 10 - 03:39 PM (#3047653) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Surely it must be the Denby Dale pie of 1887, cooked for Queen Victoria's Jubilee. It was declared uneatable and buried with ceremony. |
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06 Dec 10 - 03:47 PM (#3047660) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Ed T "Denby Dale pie of 1887... buried with ceremony". Do you have the coordinates of where it was buried? It may be better with age? |
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06 Dec 10 - 05:11 PM (#3047708) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler I was buried at "Toby Spout at the outfall of Square Wood Reservoir" according to the leaflet on the "Denby and Cumberworth circular trail". |
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06 Dec 10 - 05:26 PM (#3047717) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: gnu I had a steak and kidney pie once. Tasted liked urine to me. I have had hair pie that... nevermind. |
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06 Dec 10 - 10:04 PM (#3047861) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: frogprince 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 !! |
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07 Dec 10 - 11:31 AM (#3048133) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: IvanB 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. |
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07 Dec 10 - 11:36 AM (#3048135) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,999 Raisin pie. I love raisins, I love pie crust. Together--yuck. |
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07 Dec 10 - 01:55 PM (#3048210) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,Alan Whittle I'm not sure that counts, IvanB. I think there has to be some degree of malice aforethought. |
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07 Dec 10 - 02:34 PM (#3048233) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: John MacKenzie Malice! Who the fuck is malice? |
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07 Dec 10 - 03:05 PM (#3048243) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,999 Malice in Dunderland . . . . |
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07 Dec 10 - 03:25 PM (#3048263) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Ed T "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" |
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07 Dec 10 - 03:31 PM (#3048270) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Ed T 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. |
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07 Dec 10 - 07:42 PM (#3048441) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Bee-dubya-ell 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). |
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07 Dec 10 - 08:12 PM (#3048459) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Ed T Bee-dubya-ell A good one:) |
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08 Dec 10 - 05:17 AM (#3048620) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,Patsy 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. |
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08 Dec 10 - 07:03 AM (#3048676) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: Mr Red and where would you weigh a pie? Somewhere over the rainbow ...................................... I'll get my coat.... |
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08 Dec 10 - 08:49 AM (#3048752) Subject: RE: BS: Worlds worst pie From: GUEST,Patsy Hee, hee!! |