Talk:Corned beef pie

Article Issues

Among the issues are:

• Needs citations/references Done 31 August 2010
• Recipe needs to be transwikied to cookbook (if they want it there) Done 9 November 2008
• As noted below, a rewrite is pretty much in order Attempted 31 August 2010

Geoff (talk) 15:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Geoff ^{Who, me?} 16:26, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Merge

The Corned beef pie lays in a pastry shell, but the content is nothing like these weird Pot pie things. I can't see why a US ethnic/minority food should be the defining article on a braod class of unrealted foods. Alex Law 05:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

It`s a what?????!!111

I`m a Brit, born and raised there, obviously south of Watford, though temporarily ex pat...and I have never heard of a corn beef pie...now if it`s a pasty....pasties are Cornish rather than English, and popular --- as is iced tea --- in central and southern parts of Mexico. The `point to this rambling rant is a wanted to cry "shananaghan`s"!!!!111 British = common to the UK, something the Cornish may or may not make =! British. No more than an ``English muffin`` isn`t a Scottish griddle scone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.143.59.25 (talk) 21:47, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

I found two Commonwealth references, but none from the UK, so far. I'll leave the Brit pie category unchanged for now, though I'm inclined toward the views expressed above. Geoff ^{Who, me?} 16:29, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

It's a CORNED beef pie (see above). Corned beef is also known as 'Bully Beef' and bears no relation to American deli type 'corned beef'. I've been served up variants (with either a pastry top or with potato - sliced or mashed) by elderly British housewives, all of whom claimed that the dish was a luxury item during World War II. That would make sense - North American (not exclusively 'US') corned/bully beef was usually available to purchase in wartime Britain, either as part of the weekly meat ration or unrationed under the 'coupon/points' system. Pastry flour was available without purchase restriction (although edible fats for pastry making were much harder to come by), vegetables were intermittently subject to rationing although potatoes could normally be purchased wihout difficulty.

'Fresh' meat arrived frozen into the UK from all parts of the British Empire as well as Britain's extensive commercial interests in South America. Supplies continued throughout the entire course of the war, even at the height of the U-Boat blockade. In addition, processed, canned meat (as US and Canadian corned/bully beef and American Spam) was imported into wartime Britain. Meat formed only a small part of the average Briton's wartime diet (which bulked with healthy vegetables, cereals, pulses and therefore maximised agricultural land use). Processed, canned meats were freely available to purchase, (restricted but unrationed) as luxury items. It's a fiction that American Spam kept Britain from starving.2A01:4B00:AE0E:6200:DC7D:D977:5E79:92BB (talk) 22:49, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

This page needs a complete re-write as it makes no sense (Swampy61 (talk) 05:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC))

== Is it a pie or a pastie???

Seems the pastie made from corned beef is popular in the North of England. Can be bought in Greggs there. Just not in the south.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=54887907203 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.253.63 (talk) 14:27, 8 December 2009 (UTC)