Mince meat.
That's all you need to know ;)

For reference, the bottom of the pie is made with suet pastry, so it it soft and sinks into the liquor. Only the top is short crust.

It has a distinctive flavour - I would recognise a Pie and Mash shop pie blindfold. I think it helps to grow up with it - the lady at the Post Office said she had hers with gravy and ketchup because "I didn't grow up round here". I shuddered.

Off topic:

This reminds me of the time when I was new to Seattle. I was SCANDALIZED at having to pay for parking! About an hour of my pay would be needed to cover my transportation by car. F*** that. So, I got myself a bus schedule.

I read the schedule, found the bus stop nearest my house, and walked there the next morning. The times printed on the schedules are for some selected "time stops" along the route, and my bus stop was not one of these... And since this was my first trip, and to work (at a fairly new job) I wanted to err on the side of caution and get there early if necessary. I waited and waited... I became nervous. I noticed another bus stop nearby, and walked over to see the schedule printed on the pole (same bus number/route). Jackpot! This stop had an earlier time printed. So I waited there and sure enough, the bus rolled right up, and I climbed aboard.

What I didn't realize until later, speaking of "feeling of time invested", was that the bus stop, on the same route, was right across the street. Going in the opposite direction. Away from downtown.

:smack:

Sure! I caught an earlier bus. Moving in the opposite direction. I rode it to it's turnaround point, then back to my original stop, considerably later than if I had just stood pat, then onward toward downtown. Late. It was quite an embarrassing education.

I am such a big fan of authentic regional cuisines. Here's what a culture develops when the lower classes have limited access to herbs, no access to the expensive spices, a lot of fresh veggies are hard to come by off-season except for maybe the root vegetables which you can make last a long time... but there's always game in the field and cows and sheep in the pastures, and nobody really pays much for the kidneys.

They used to be sold by pie-men, who bought the meat fresh from Smithfield and the eels fresh from Billingsgate. Mincing meat of course stretches it further, and you can add bits and pieces to it - meat cuttings are all protein after all.

Buying from a pie-man was the equivalent of fast food :)
My grandparents were too young for the pie-man, but remember the ice-cart and the muffin man.

two peanut butter and honey sandwiches.

god I feel sick now.

One of the two known essential toppings for green-bean casserôle, SG. While beans-n-glop baked en casserôle is edible, unless you have a violent antipathy to cream of mushroom condensed soup, the Tater Tots on top, baking into crispness, really add something essential to the dish.

The other known essential topping is canned Durkee crisp-fried onions, which like the Tots have a deep-fried garnishy goodness that greatly improves the casserole... okay, I'm leaving off the circumflex.

Green Bean Casserole's invention is well documented. It was a recipe specifically devised to use canned goods that practically every kitchen contained about all of the time. Actually, despite growing up in the Canned Food Decade of the Sixties, I never had the stuff as a kid, but learned the recipe aboard a nuclear submarine. :3eye:

I keep trying to make GB casserole only to find The Homeless Guy has eaten all the Durkees. Again! Like hand food.

When I was on vacation last week, a typical breakfast would include:
+ Fresh-squeezed orange juice
+ Strawberry/apple/banana smoothie (large)
+ Banana pancakes with real butter, fresh strawberry jam and syrup
+ Eggs
+ Crispy bacon
+ Bread


It's no wonder I gained a few pounds.

Why would you have jam and syrup? I guess you had it all in the one big bowl? ;)

My Dad loves jam so much (or he used to when we were growing up) he would have it on ice cream - with dessert syrup.
Then again he would have it on chocolate cake and with leftover Yorkshire puddings - Mum would always make extra so he could have one for supper.

Funny, he doesn't have a particularly sweet tooth - I inherited my love of cheese from him. Just loved the jam.

I love jam and cheese on hot scones. It's very yummy.

I just think jam and syrup on sweetened pancakes would have to be just sooooo sweet. I can't imagine being able to stomach it, and i have what I'd consider to be a very sweet tooth.

I'll have you know I have most* of my original organs! ;)

* Less one gallbladder.

But are you a meat pie Pie? Or are you.. a fruit pie?

or a fruit mince pie

on the subject of tim tams, I just opened a packet of 'pink wish' tim tams. They're strawberry filled and 10 cents from every packet goes to the breast cancer foundation. Anyway, I pulled the whole tray out of the packet to put them in a container and discovered to my everlasting shock and horror, that there's only 9 (NINE) in the packet!

Now i'm feeling so ripped off!!!