# Pie and chips **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658 "2006-03-24T00:12:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/1 "2006-03-24T00:12:57Z")
Very mundane…but I just can’t help being amused every time i see the new Geko commercial… pie and chips? OK they (Americans) might figure out “chips”…but do they realize he’s talking about steak and KIDNEY pie?(he IS English after all) Which would gross out most Americains. If they knew. Hee hee hee ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/2 "2006-03-24T00:50:15Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > OK they (Americans) might figure out “chips”…but do they realize he’s talking about steak and KIDNEY pie?(he IS English after all) Which would gross out most Americains. If they knew. EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW! Kidneys make PEE! And you would EAT them? GROSS!!! :throw-up smiley: Just figured you might like to hear my reaction to that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/3 "2006-03-24T01:02:48Z")
> [@Anne Neville](#): > > EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW! > > Kidneys make PEE! And you would EAT them? GROSS!!! :throw-up smiley: > > Just figured you might like to hear my reaction to that. 🙂 😃😃😃😃😃 I also eat haggis 😃😃😃😃😃 occasionlly. And kindney are rathe taste. No really!!! They take the pee out first. Honest. But of course you post just made mine more to the point…if they thought of what it was you’d just be appalled 😛 And i guess i could throw somthing in there about the fact that cocks make pee but people still eat them 🙂🙂🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/4 "2006-03-24T01:08:57Z")
When come back … There was another thread about this very thing, well about the pie and chips rather than the kidneys. 🙂 [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=360334&highlight=Geiko](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=360334&highlight=Geiko) ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/5 "2006-03-24T01:15:13Z")
OKay, now I’m confused. WTH is a gecko–an _Australian_ species–doing with an English accent and making reference to English foods?? Years ago he had an Australian accent. I swear he did. Now every time that digital mouth opens, he sounding more and more like an extra from Monty Python. Shenanigans! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/6 "2006-03-24T01:22:05Z")
> [@Anne Neville](#): > > Kidneys make PEE! And you would EAT them? Jack the Ripper did. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/7 "2006-03-24T01:25:41Z")
Thanks, by the way. I probably won’t get dinner till late tonight, and you’ve made it easier for me. > [@betenoir](#): > > And kindney are rathe taste. No really!!! They take the pee out first. Honest. I’d probably still taste pee, even if they had taken it out, just from thinking about it. I know I will regret asking this, and I know I’m just offering you another chance to gross me out: Do kidneys taste anything like liver? That’s the only organ meat I’ve ever eaten, and I was so happy in the mid-80s when they figured out that liver was full of cholesterol and wasn’t health food after all. I’m on a 20-year streak of eating no liver, 😃😃😃😃😃 and hope it goes for several more decades. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Jack the Ripper did. And this is any kind of recommendation? He ate British food before it became good (tour guidebooks about Britain for Americans all tell us that British food isn’t as bad as we think any more)- he probably ate all sorts of revolting things. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/8 "2006-03-24T01:26:13Z")
So pie in England is steak and kidney pie? What, you never heard of blueberries? And why would someone each french fries with pie? (I had S&K pie once. My mother was English. Note I said once. I think my father forbade her from ever making it again. It stunk up the house something _awful_.) ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/9 "2006-03-24T02:20:13Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > So pie in England is steak and kidney pie? … No, it can be an apple pie or other sweet fruit pie as well. And the “steak and kideny” bit isn’t compulsory either - it could be chicken and mushroom, or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/10 "2006-03-24T02:20:46Z")
> [@Anne Neville](#): > > he probably ate all sorts of revolting things. I should imagine so. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/11 "2006-03-24T03:00:03Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > So pie in England is steak and kidney pie? What, you never heard of blueberries? And why would someone each french fries with pie? > > (I had S&K pie once. My mother was English. Note I said once. I think my father forbade her from ever making it again. It stunk up the house something _awful_.) Bluebery pie ad frensh fries??? EWWWWW Anyway i think “pie” and chips are better…and screw you for thinking differently…but mean that in a nice way 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/12 "2006-03-24T07:26:37Z")
Oh look yet another thread about steak and kidney pies. Is there some rule on the SDMB that says this subject must be debated at least twice a month? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/13 "2006-03-24T08:21:25Z")
> [@Anne Neville](#): > > ly organ meat I’ve ever eaten, and I was so happy in the mid-80s when they figured out that liver was full of cholesterol and wasn’t health food after all. I’m on a 20-year streak of eating no liver, 😃😃😃😃😃 and hope it goes for several more decades. > ) :eek: What? it’s full of protien. Don’t tell me it’s bad for you. Liver is great! Yay liver. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/14 "2006-03-24T08:22:44Z")
> [@Rayne Man](#): > > . Is there some rule on the SDMB that says this subject must be debated at least twice a month? 😕 Yes. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/15 "2006-03-24T08:25:05Z")
> [@Rayne Man](#): > > Is there some rule on the SDMB that > says this subject must be debated at least twice a month? 😕 And you’re damn lucky if it’s just twice. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/16 "2006-03-24T12:55:35Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > Bluebery pie ad frensh fries??? EWWWWW > > Anyway i think “pie” and chips are better…and screw you for thinking differently…but mean that in a nice way > 🙂 No worries…you can have mine. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/17 "2006-03-24T16:55:31Z")
> [@Rayne Man](#): > > Oh look yet another thread about steak and kidney pies. Is there some rule on the SDMB that says this subject must be debated at least twice a month? 😕 Perhaps we should branch out into eating squrrels - well the American invading squirrels, anyway. 🙂 > [@](#): > > TV chef Jamie Oliver should encourage schoolchildren to eat grey squirrels in an effort to save the endangered red species, a Conservative peer says. > > Lord Inglewood said greys had to be culled to ensure reds - native to the UK - did not die out. > > “I must confess that I have never actually eaten a grey squirrel… but I am prepared to give it a go,” he said. > … > > [BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Jamie 'must back squirrel-eating'](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4835690.stm) > > Most reds are confined to Scotland, Cumbria, Northumbria, the Isle of Wight and islands in Poole Harbour. > > Greys, introduced from North America in the 19th Century, now number about two million. There are some 160,000 reds. > > Lord Inglewood said: "What about celebrity chefs like Jamie Oliver promoting (the grey) for school dinners? > > “Indeed the House authorities could put it on the menu here.” > … > > ‘Nutkin is toast’ > > Lord Inglewood said: “Unless something radical and imaginative is done Squirrel Nutkin and his friends are going to be toast.” > … ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/18 "2006-03-24T17:27:12Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > :eek: What? it’s full of protien. Don’t tell me it’s bad for you. Liver is great! Yay liver. yeah, if you _like_ eating a _filter_ that is… personally, i _hate_ liver ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/19 "2006-03-24T19:33:44Z")
> [@The BBC](#): > > TV chef Jamie Oliver should encourage schoolchildren to eat grey squirrels in an effort to save the endangered red species, a Conservative peer says. Either the Tory fool is a plagiarist or an idiot, because Gordon Ramsey came up with the exact same idea a few months ago on his TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658/20 "2006-03-24T21:36:36Z")
> [@Rayne Man](#): > > Oh look yet another thread about steak and kidney pies. Is there some rule on the SDMB that says this subject must be debated at least twice a month? 😕 Yes. Yes there is. 😃 Hmmmm, I guess you could make a cheeseburger pie (if you like cheeseburger pie) or chicken pot pie. With fries. Or just make hot pocket type mini pies. Steak and cheese are always good. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pie-and-chips/349658.md?page=2)