Now c’mon … we English are too busy inventing luscious pies to put our minds to much else … 
Lamb and Apricot Pie anyone?
Julie
We remember. It just isn’t the steak part that makes us rech.
Just like everything, the Brits may invent it, but it takes the Americans to perfect it. For example: The English language, proper spelling (who needs a u in every other word), decent pie…
(I kid because I love)
hmm, could work actually, I’ve never eaten a single pie, and I’m not inventive 
I’ve never eaten a single pie, either … I always eat them in pairs.
Julie
I challenge just about everything in the thread title.
- Including the Scots as English*, we have invented:
Gravity**
Calculus
The English Language
The Long Bow (au revoir, mes amis!)
Railways
Computers
Evolution**
Penicillin
Telephones
Tarmac
Vortex vacuum cleaners
Policemen
Chicken Tikka Masala
- It’s very nice that you Americans have such a variety of pies for dessert.
However we English were eating meat pies when Shakespeare*** strolled the boards (and throwing them too, if the production was rubbish!).
A visit to my local fish + chip shop in my small town (near Melton Mowbray) revealed the following pies:
Beef + onion
Steak and kidney
Chicken and mushroom
Melton Mowbray Pork
Imagine what would have happened if I had gone to a supermarket…
*we can do this because the Americans cannot tell the difference :eek:
**I am prepared to accept this is a stretch
***insert ‘American knowledge of history joke’ here
Maybe I should bring some pie to England.
You know, when I come back.
:: ducks brickbats ::
I think I’d really like a kidney pie, steak or not. I like organ meat.
And as for the OP, Edison must have been tripping. That statment makes no logical sense.
And I challenge the assumption that these are pies. Pies have a tasty, sweet filling of some kind. Pies do not have onions or organs in them!
Challenge away. Pies have existed (onions organs and all) since before there was a USA.
Is this aversion to kidneys a widespread American phenomenon? You really are missing out, because calf’s kidneys in a mustard sauce are a dish fit for kings. Does this attitude spread to all offal? I take it that you’re not really big on liver either then. And presumably not terribly keen when it comes to andouillette, sweatbreads, brains, tongue, tripe, faggots or tete de veau a la vinaigrette.
You have much to learn.
Are you sure?
You call our fine Georgia pecans scrummy? As a fine Southron gentleman, I take umbrage, sir, umbrage, I say. Why, our pecans are simply scrumptious!
Oh.
Just be careful never to typo, my good man. (Those British and their extra letters in words…)
Zorro you are a true gourmet! I love offal, liver, haggis etc. but andouillette is evil and isn’t tete de veau lambs face? I draw the line at that…oh and tripe, lets not forget tripe.
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You know, HITLER liked onion and organ pie! That’s right! Are you Brits some kinda Hitler Pie Lovers? Hmm?
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Bell may have been born in Scotland, but he did his inventing of the telephone after he moved to America and away from meat pies. Telling, no? And we claim him anyway because of that fact.
American inventions:
Airplane
LAN systems
the internet
cell phones
telephones
telegraphs
lightbulbs
television (sorry about that)
bifocals
fire companies
fire insurance
phonographs
the Gulf Stream (if you guys can invent evolution and gravity…)
Notice that American inventions begin overtaking British ones in terms of how revolutionary and groundbreaking the farther our culture moves from meat pies and towards fruit pies.
The evidence is clear. Meat pies inhibit inventiveness.
Someone’s going to bring up Snow and the lightbulb pretty soon. And you’re all whacked, haggis is superior to all those culinary creations.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is haggis not a traditional Scottish dish of sheep’s bladder stuffed with other various sheep organs?
In which case, I would like to say: ew
Thats correct and damn nice it is too.
What exactly do you think they make hamburgers out of anyway?
I’ve never understood why people are willing to eat the sheeps flesh but balk at the idea of eating any of the other organs. It’s all good eating!
Hitler, as any fule kno, was a vegetarian.