# Important UK Government e-petition - let's make a difference this Christmas, folks **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2014, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108 "2014-12-02T09:42:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malden\_Capell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malden_capell/32/5274_2.png) [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/1 "2014-12-02T09:42:44Z")
[Linky](https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/64629) “Make wrongly describing a casserole with a pastry lid as a pie a criminal offence.” I can get behind this 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/2 "2014-12-02T10:05:55Z")
Since 1997 they have created something like 3000 new crimes so I am fairly certain it already is an offence. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/3 "2014-12-02T10:05:56Z")
Too long we have suffered under this cruel tyranny. Honest pies for honest people, say I. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/4 "2014-12-02T10:10:06Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Since 1997 they have created something like 3000 new crimes so I am fairly certain it already is an offence. It’d probably fall under false advertising. And it’s evil. Pure evil. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/5 "2014-12-02T10:30:54Z")
Yes, why can’t they make a proper pie with full pastry casing? Then at least they’d be earning an honest crust. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/6 "2014-12-02T13:30:00Z")
I am in favour of this measure. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/7 "2014-12-02T19:36:08Z")
I think the idea is capital. Or at least it _should_ be. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/8 "2014-12-02T20:51:47Z")
I am completely with you on this. Not sure if the SDMB will get it though, because ‘pie’ and ‘casserole’ don’t mean the same across the pond ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/9 "2014-12-02T21:36:38Z")
Bloody Wigan supporters seem to get wound up about every little thing > **[Urban Dictionary: pie-eater](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pie-eater)** > > Person from Wigan. Nothing to do with the large number of pies eaten in Wigan but to do with a miner's strike in the 1920's when all the pits in WIgan and Leigh went on strike. The Wiganers went back and broke the strike, the "Leythers" continued to... ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/10 "2014-12-03T00:35:52Z")
That’s not a pie. [This](https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B021FB3140391EBE!2038&authkey=!AGlB7TWnkhJfLp8&v=3&ithint=photo%2cjpg) is a pie. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-uk-government-e-petition-lets-make-a-difference-this-christmas-folks/706108/11 "2014-12-03T01:49:31Z")
Who ate all the pies? Who ate all the pies? …well, I guess it wasn’t you, if you were going to one of these so-called “pubs.” Yer still a fat bastard, though. Probably did eat all the bleedin’ pies. Were I in the land of Eng, I’d be right on this, though–we’ve got similar conniving “pubs” who pull this nonsense here in the States. Crust is the best part–you can’t go around depriving us of it!