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Has a bit of a connoisseur of pies I like to think I know the difference between a pie and pastie and you would think the judges at the Pie Awards would as well? I am sure the PASTIE that won the Pie of the Year the ‘Beef Skirt & Vegetable Pastie’ made by the family-run butchers A.F Huddleston could well be a top pastie but no one is telling me it is a pie.
The controversial decision has led to talk of a boycott of next year awards with twitter going into melt down from the pie community. I bought a pasty this morning asking the woman behind the counter for a pasty and she handed me a pasty not a pie. Matthew O’Callaghan, chairman of the British Pie Awards and Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association, “I know many will be surprised to see a pasty winning the British Pie Awards, but the definition of a pie is a filling totally encased in pastry – pies come in all shapes including round pies, square pies, and pasties.”
Mr O’Callaghan probably still believes the world is flat and the moon is made of cheese if he thinks his organisation could past off a pie as a pastie or the other way around. Just as annoying is people coming out of the woodwork claiming a pasty is a pie.
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A pie has a lid, and bottom and you bake it in a pasty lined pie dish with the filling of choice and totally encased in pastry … we have a pie. A pastie is a turnover ‘folded pastry case with a crimped lid’ and NOT a pie. The pie is about the depth, top to bottom full with gravy.
Have you ever seen a flat pie? No, they are slices and look like a pastie. The pastie people can’t even decide how to spell pastie is it ‘pasty’ or ‘pastie’. What next! A sausage roll winning Pie of the Year because someone decides to put tops on the end of a sausage roll or a shepherd pie win.
Pie of the Year should be win by a pie and nothing else. Everyone knows what a pie looks like even those deluded to think a pastie is a pie.
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