And we Americans have…quiche, a nice savory egg pie.
Somehow I don’t think we invented quiche lorraine, though. But we still like it.
As if this poor thread hadn’t been hijacked to death already, I feel I must ask – is it just me, or, does quiche lorraine sound like the most filthy innuendo?
runs off to make his name at “face.pajamas.com”
When did the Netherlands annex Scandinavia?
They used to eat Bedfordshire Clangers in Cornwall?
Wow mascaroni … I live in Bedfordshire and I’ve never heard of Bedfordshire Clangers. They look delish! I reckon they stole the idea from Cornwall tho’ 
Julie
To claim that Americans do not make good use of organ meats is patently false.
We do, but we call it dog food. Yum!
Try one from here…
It could solve the transatlantic fruit or meat in pie debate though… a Pilgrim Father took a Bedfordshire Clanger down to Plymouth, a Cornishman tried to snatch it, only got the meat part, and called it a Cornish pasty, while the Pilgrim was left with the (as American as) Apple Pie.
This is how conspiracy theories start…
Only after I make the Egg Roll.
Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip your waitress.
My father always eats pickled herring. He’s Scandinavian. I don’t know if he’s actually had herring raw and unpickled, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
He’s also tried lutefisk. He said it likes chewing on rubber bands–only rubber bands taste better.
And Americans eat vegetarian fruit pies rather than meat pies, therefore . . .
Hitler was a fruit?!
More than that, he was a vegetarian fruit.
And we ate him.
At least, I think that’s the point Muffin is making here.
Ohhhh, I like it 
And thanks for the link … I may well give it a try!
Julie
Ok, this is just a small list of British, meat and offal pie-eating inventors and their inventions.
Aeroplane - John Stringfellow
Anemometer - Robert Hooke
Age of the Earth - Arthur Holmes
Battery - Humphrey Davey
Disc Brakes - Frederick William Lanchester
Tin Can - Peter Durand
Carbonated Water - Joseph Priestly
Cat Eyes - Percy Shaw
Portland Cement - Joseph Aspdin
Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
Corkscrews - H.S. Heeley
Crossword Puzzles - Arthur Wynne
Depth Charges Diving Equipment/Scuba Gear - John Smeaton, William James, Henry Fleuss
EKG (Underlying Principles) - Various
Electric Motor - Michael Faraday
Electromagnet - William Sturgeon
Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
Gas Mask -John Tyndall and others
Dew-point Hygrometer - John Frederic Daniell
Holography - Dennis Gábor
Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown
Jet Engines - Sir Frank Whittle
Kelvin Scale - Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Metal Lathe - Henry Maudslay invented the first in 1797.
Latex - Henry Wickham
Lawn Mower - Edwin Beard Budding
Lightbulbs - Humphry Davy, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, James Bowman Lindsay
Locomotive - Richard Trevithick
Power Loom - Edmund Cartwright
Little Nipper Mousetrap - James Henry Atkinson
Pencil - Someone in the Lake District
Penny Farthing - James Starley
Periodic Table - John Newlands
Periscope - Sir Howard Grubb
Propellor - IK Brunel
Puckle Gun - John Puckle
Radar Locating of Aircraft - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
Radio (Underlying Principles) - James Clerk Maxwell
Refridgerator - William Cullen
Rubber Bands - Stephen Perry
Rubber Masticator - Thomas Hancock
Safety Lamp - Humphrey Davey
Safety Razor - Henson
Sandwich - Earl of Sandwich
Screwdriver - 15th century
Seed Drill - Jethro Tull
Seismometer - James Forbes
Seismograph - John Milne, Sir James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Gray
Sewing Machines - Thomas Saint
Shrapnel - Henry Shrapnel
Steam Engine - Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt
Steel Production - Sir Henry Bessemer
Submarine - William Bourne,
Spinning Jenny - James Hargreaves
Spinning Frame - Richard Arkwright
Spinning Mule - Samuel Crompton
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell
Television - John Logie Baird
Telescope - Various
Thermos - Sir James Dewar
Toilet Paper - British Perforated Paper Company
Torpedo - Robert Whitehead 1866
Umbrella (steel-ribbed) - Samuel Fox
Universal Joint - Robert Hooke (also Iris Diaphragm, Balance Spring)
Vacuum Cleaner - Hubert Cecil Booth
Venn Diagram - John Venn
Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett
Wacky Inventions - Arthur Paul Pedrick
Waterproof Fabric - Charles Macintosh
World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee
Just goes to show that steak and kidney’s good for the old noggin.
And then there is the sub-list of Scottish inventors, led by the 9th Earl of Dundonald, who poured his estate’s resources into developing production processes for coal tar for ship’s hull preservation, and salt for consumption.
A by-product of the coal tar production process was coal gas, which he burned off. Unfortunately, he never thought to use the coal gas for street lighting, but others did, and made their fortunes from it.
A by-product of salt production process was soda, for which he had no use. Unfortunately, others did, and made their fortunes as soda revolutionized the glass industry.
The 9th Earl lost everything.