Where were you born and raised?
With what distinct (sub/)culture (if any) do you identify?
What do you understand the term ‘pie’ to mean? - If I offered you pie (without going into any further detail), what would you expect to receive?
Where were you born and raised?
With what distinct (sub/)culture (if any) do you identify?
What do you understand the term ‘pie’ to mean? - If I offered you pie (without going into any further detail), what would you expect to receive?
I was born and raised in Dallas,Texas.
I don’t identify with any sub cultures.
If you offered me a pie, I would assume it would be in the form of a dessert made from fruits or whipped cream.
English
Sub Culture: Yorkshire
A pie to me is a savoury dish consisting of pastry surrounding a filling. The filling would be meat, meat & potato, cheese & onion or something like that.
best served with chips, gravy and beans/mushy peas
A good pie should cause arteries to shut just by looking at it.
I was born in Plattsburgh, NY, raised there roughly 1/4 of the time, and raised in Roanoke, VA (where I now live) the remaining 3/4. I get along equally well with the more, erm, localized residents of the north and south U.S., but I don’t precisely identify with either. If you offer me a pie, I’ll judge by your accent (accurate about 60% of the time) whether you’re offering dessert or a pizza. If I ask you for a pie, I will be referring to dessert.
Born and raised in the DC suburbs, but a southerner by descent.
If you offer me pie, I’m expecting a sweet dessert. Hopefully with pecans.
I hadn’t even thought of pizza pie until **Roland ** mentioned it. I’m not a big fan of meat pies, but that’s just because it’s not a traditional part of my cuisine. The ones I’ve had were quite good.
South/Southwest Shore Nova Scotia. No idea what sub-culture I am, I think labels are overrated anyways.
I’d expect, or at least hope for, apple pie. Perhaps pumpkin. Though mincemeat and rhubarb are quite popular too. So, one of those.
England, Hampshire.
If you offered me “pie” I would think you mean dessert, but if you offered me “a pie” I would probably think meat. That might just be me, though.
I grew up in Haifa, Israel and in New York City.
A pie to me is a sweet desert, consisting of a crust and a filling, and although it can be open-topped, the crust must cover the sides of the pan (otherwise it’s just a base). The filling is usualy apple, pumpkin, peach or pecan, but I’m always open to new ideas. A pie is basically the largest member of the tart family.
A pie with meat in it is British food and as such should be treated with suspicion.
Born in Lakewood (L.A. County), lived in San Diego 'til I was 15, then lived in Lancaster (CA) 'til my mid-20s. “Pie”, to me, means a sweet dessert. “Pot pie” means a savoury dish consisting of pastry surrounding a filling; usually chicken or turkey, but often beef. If I’m in a pub, you’d need to say the kind of pie: shepherd’s pie, steak’n’kindey pie…
England
Sub-culture: people from England
Pie: Anything made with a pastry surround, containing a filling. Can be savoury (chicken & bacon) etc. or sweet (apple, apricot, whatever). Pastry, however, is the defining part.
Another Hampshire boy checking in (whereabouts you from old chap? I’m a Winchester lad mesself), although currently exiled in london.
To me a pie is a meat thing eg snake and pygmy pie, chicken and mushroom, balti etc. (The balti pies at Villa Park are the food of the gods), meat and potato etc.
We do have sweet pies eg apple, but the meat kind is what would spring immediately to mind.
I like pies. Indeed I may be the man who ate all the pies.
From Malaysia. KL-Boy.
(Thats in South-East Asia, for those of y’all not familiar with it)
However, if you’re polling by location, I’d just like to point out that I’m pretty damn Americanized for an Asian. (heh… notice the use of ‘z’ instead of ‘s’)
Pie to me means sweet dessert. Apple was my first thought.
Born in Yorkshire England raised in Australia since a babe.
If you offered me a pie I would expect a meat pie of some description.
If you offered me pie and something I would expect a meat pie of some sort with mash, chips, vege (whatever the something was.
If you offered me pie I would expect a dessert pie - apple etc.
You fat bastard!
A fair cop.
Like this suspicious food? Looks wholesome enough to me
a pie -> probably a meat pie
[name of fruit] pie -> sweet pudding, a pastry shell containing the named fruit
BTW owlstretch I’ve always known the snake and pygmy dish as pudding, was my mum just trying to confuse us?
I was born and raised in small-town Alaska. My parents are both mid-westerners (Minnesota and Kansas), so I guess that would be my basic culture/subculture.
Anyhoo, if you asked me, “Would you like some pie?” I would expect you meant the dessert kind.
So, Mangetout, why are you asking, and what kind of pie were you thinking of?
the pudding variety (also known as a baby’s head) comes in a suet pastry. The crisp pastry variety is pie
Oops forgot to say.
Small Clanger: Born and raised England, subculture, er, suburban South East London(?)
Born in India, raised in the States.
I feel 97 % American.
If you offered me pie I would probably have to turn it down because I don’t really like sweet pies, which is what I think of. But I would LOVE to try a nice meat pie.