I wonder if it means meat pie? Like, steak or chicken pot pie. Or Shepards pie.
Or maybe just regular fruit pie and french fries. Which I’d take either or both of right now. Both good things, and you could have them together, I think. Mmmm pie.
Just in case you think it’s the American form of pie (which appears to me to be a collective noun, opposed to our use as “a pie” singular or multiple “pies”), the pie in question isn’t sweet - it’s likely to be beef in gravy, chicken and mushroom, or even steak and kidney. Served with chips and often lots of ketchup. From a fish and chip shop, usually.
Um, the kidney part. It’s not bad enough that organ meat makes many Americans queasy, but associating it with PIE (again, the American concept of pie) is just too much.
Geico’s mistake is in not translating the script to make it suitable for American consumption. I mean, don’t they want the thoughts expressed to be appealing?
Maybe they’re after the viral marketing angle. Y’know, of which this thread could be considered a result.
As for Steak & Kidney Pie, I grew up in the care of a family of brits, so I was introduced to things like that. Steak & Kidney pie is actually quite nice if you can get past the bit about kidney being an organ, and the slightly tofu-like texture. Given the choice though I’d prefer just plain steak pie.
Shepherd’s pie is great though. I make a pretty decent one myself.
Not shepherd’s pie, as that isn’t a pie made with pastry - it’s ground lamb in gravy with mashed potato on top of it. Pie & chips has to have sides to it so you can carry it around.
I’ve never seen the Geico commercials here, by the way. I did hear tell that the gecko is actually Australian, which makes sense as pie & chips is way more popular in Oz than it is over here. Damned good pies there, too, with nary a kidney in site.
We have meat pies too in America-chicken pot pie, frito pie (trailer trash cuisine!), and what have you. It’s just that pie usually means something like apple, or cocoanut cream.
That’s what I meant. We never use the collective noun “pie” to describe sweet things. We say “a pie” or “pies” and usually mean savoury ones - a classic humourous statement to make about a skinny person is “he should eat a pie”.
Caveman, that’s exactly what the Weebl cartoon is referring to.
Oh yeah. Then I remember wtf weebl and bob look like. Funny, I never think about the cartoons … just the brilliant dialogue (though, granted, with some hypnotic rocking motion…).
