# Does pie and chips mean something different to Brits?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 24, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-pie-and-chips-mean-something-different-to-brits/345940 "2006-02-24T17:45:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-pie-and-chips-mean-something-different-to-brits/345940/101 "2006-03-01T05:54:07Z")

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> [@Brynda](#):
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> My British MIL makes great fish pie. Every American I have mentioned it to looks slightly nauseated at the thought.

Ever tried stargazy pie? Now there’s an unforgettable experience.

> [@Maureen](#):
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> I know what an American pudding is, **Guin**. An English pudding looks like [this](http://www.prx.org/pieces/530).

So, you don’t know about **steak and kidney pudding** , then?

> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#):
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> I’d like to offer a little advice to all of you Britons. If anyone in the U.S. ever offers you a _Cowpie_ or\* Buffalo Chips\*, you should **emphatically decline**.

Poor [Desperate Dan.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperate_Dan)

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**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-pie-and-chips-mean-something-different-to-brits/345940/102 "2006-03-01T20:03:09Z")

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The lizard has an East End accent (I love the Geiko advert).

To all you confused Septics, the lizard’s incredulity isn’t at the fact that someone might turn down a free meal, its that someone would turn down a free decent _take out_.

He’s referring to the kind of Pie and Chips you’d get from a Fish n’ Chip shop (mmmm, pukka pie and chip shop chips…) not the kind someone might make at home.

If you swop the reference to pie and chips for a reference to maybe free takeout chinese or free pizza it may make more sense.

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> But apparently, at least going by Mr. Regan, the term is still in current use in or around New York. And apparently you can leave out the “pizza” part and still be understood, in certain contexts.

Yup. I regularly order a ten-inch pie. the word pizza is not mentioned.

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