scrubbedexpat098

Ello my septic pals, hope all is well. There was a program on here in Oz last night which covered an audience opening up a pie shop in the states. He was saying you lot hadn't heard of pies and had to be educated in the art of eating them without cutlery. Is this actually true or are my aussie
countrymen bullshitting and trying to make out we're a totally unique race???

Mmmmm pies

kimilseung

Pies are odd here. Some even say that pizza is a pie. Generally a pie is sweet. Savory pies seem to be needed to be called "pot pies" often they are top crust only anyway. Aussie pies are a brand here, and to an extent, proper pies are associated with Australia. There is an Aussie pie shop near me.

Hotscot

I miss a good savoury pie here in California.

scrubbedexpat098

Blimp, I thought it was just the aussies doing their 'we're special' thing. I'd have thought the British influence from years back would've cemented the pie into your culture, but this isn't the first time I've been wrong haha

kimilseung

If I even say "mate" people think I am doing an impression of an Aussie.

Bob

I think it might be regional.

There are quite a few pie type shops in and around my area, from the Brit type stores to the Brazilian ones.

They're a bit different though.

Pulaski

No meat pies here.

Americans seen to have collective paranoia about offal, and there is considerable suspicion that loomeat that isn't obviously "meat" i.e. clear chunks might contain "parts". The only pies I recall seeing frozen or in cafeterias is the "chicken pot pie", which includes vegetables and a creamy sauce.

Mrs P made a great steak and ale pie a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't find any kidneys to put in it, but it doesn't matter because Mrs P wouldn't have put them in the pie; she's a born USC herself, and won't touch "parts".

I would just about kill for a pork pie.

scrubbedexpat098

The pork pie is the king of pies, today anyway I'll probably change my mind tomorrow. I love a bit of offal specially liver and kidney, tripe is a step too far for me, by the look of it anyway.

Pulaski

Are you my other doppelganger? ...... My first is Jeremy Clarkson.

scrubbedexpat091

Any butcher shops around? Up here you can generally order in various parts from a butcher shop, although they are becoming hard to find although the Asian supermarkets have just about every part you could ever want.

scrubbedexpat091

Might depend on what region in the US one is from? Not all regions had much if any British influence.

I am from So. California and it's all Spanish influence there, not sure if the British ever had any real significant influence on the place.

Yorkieabroad

We have a restaurant called a House of pies here, but it's not pies like I know from back home..they are all incredibly sweet, and none of them actually have a crust on top...normally just lashings of "cream". They also sell "pie irons" in the outdoor type shops, but these are more for cooking a toastie over a campfire than what we know as a pie.

We have an Aussie family not far away who take the "we're special" bit to the extreme. The eldest son (16-ish) keeps banging on about how Aussies are the only ones that can cook pies, even though he's only ever been to Oz, NZ, Mexico and the U.S. It's not dissimilar to the Brit attitude that no one else can do fish n chips properly. Except he's wrong, and we're not

Pulaski

Yes, we got an angus rib roast from a butcher for Christmas, but I'd have to get busy in the kitchen myself because Mrs P wouldn't make a pie with kidneys in it.

Stormer999

Pies invented by Egypt and adopted by Greeks and carried to Britain by the Romans
Steak and Cheese Kiwi style.......excellent......no horse...

Yorkieabroad

not to mention quite a few parts that you would never want !