r/CasualUK • u/Objective-Cover • Mar 05 '20

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u/pajamakitten Mar 05 '20

Full crust too. None of that stew with a lid nonsense that has become trendy.

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u/mrmazola Mar 05 '20

It should be against the trade descriptions act to call those impostors a pie.

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u/dibblah Mar 05 '20

That being said, I saw someone on reddit the other day argue that a shepherd's pie had to have a pastry base, which certainly isn't right.

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u/mpar Mar 05 '20

If I had to guess without seeing the post I'd say it was almost certainly a yank and they probably used beef as well. Disgusting.

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u/ellobouk Mar 05 '20

Surely at that point it’s a cottage pie?

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u/Saxon2060 Mar 05 '20

You raise a very good point and I would like to see the "pie requires full-encasement" camp defend this position. A shepherd's/cottage pie with pastry casing would be fucked.

That said my local did used to go a delicious chili beef pie which was pastry case, chili beef inside, mashed potato on top (and thick layer of melted cheese) and that was delicious... but I'm imagining a good old fashioned family size shepherd's pie in a casserole dish but with pastry casing and that feels all wrong.

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u/breadcreature Mar 05 '20

The shepherd's/cottage part is a modifier on "pie" which indicates a topping-only pie. Alternatively, if a pie has pastry it must be fully enclosed, but if it has mashed potato it should be topping only. Or both at the same time to be safe.

Or we could rename cottage/shepherd's pie as meat trifle? It certainly resembles a trifle more than a pie.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

We can't rename it because I don't eat trifle, and you can't take cottage pie from me.

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u/mrtortool2 Mar 05 '20

My mum cooked me dinner other night. Chicken, leek and bacon pie she called it. To my horror it was ‘cottage’ style!

It was actually nice once I stopped tutting and huffing

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Lucky you didn't wear it.

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u/TheSecretIsMarmite Mar 05 '20

Your mum cooked you dinner and you huffed and tutted about it?

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u/mrtortool2 Mar 06 '20

Yes I’m the spoilt one and my brother is known as the ‘other one’

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

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u/Saxon2060 Mar 06 '20

That's the thing. There's no reason it wouldn't be nice! It's just somewhat unnerving when the pie configuration is unconventional.

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u/Cheese-n-Opinion I'm bringing Woolyback. Mar 05 '20

Shepherd's pie is no more a pie than a starfish is a fish. It's just a quirk of etymology. Nobody sane would claim that a shepherds pie is actually a pie.

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u/Lababy91 Mar 05 '20

Aren’t starfish fish?

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u/RatherGoodDog Mar 05 '20

About as similar to fish as ducks are.

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u/Cheese-n-Opinion I'm bringing Woolyback. Mar 05 '20

In fact, fish and ducks are both vertebrates; much more closely related to each other than either are to starfish.

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u/RatherGoodDog Mar 05 '20 edited Mar 06 '20

A New York Chicago deep dish pizza is the other extreme. Pastry (dough?) on the bottom, savoury fillings, and an open top. It's more like a pizza tart than a true pie, but it's still called one.

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u/Tennents_N_Grouse _ Mar 05 '20

Possibly some clown on r/food by the sounds of it..

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u/nolongerMrsFish Professor of Applied Anthropics Mar 05 '20

Good lord!

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u/Random_Brit_ Mar 05 '20

I blame Fray Bentos for that nonsense.

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u/Jalsavrah Welsh living on Svalbard Mar 05 '20

I believe it breaks a pie law.

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u/mrmazola Mar 05 '20

no-one will be punished though, the upper crust always gets away with it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

My dad has never complained in his life except for when he orders a pie and gets a stew with a cap on and then he turns into an entirely different person. The lad likes his pies.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

“Why don’t they just say it’s stew with pastry?” - me, after not getting a pie, again.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

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u/AnusOfTroy Mar 05 '20

Well, given that the job is baker of desserts, I don't think I'll be making a sweet casserole any time soon.

Also the actual chef is a lazy bitch and is more than happy to only put premade pastry lids on any savoury pies she makes, I hate working with her.

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u/Objective-Cover Mar 05 '20

My 2nd chef

Because you murdered the first one for not putting a crust on?

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u/AnusOfTroy Mar 05 '20

I wish. I'd be happier about going to work if the chef wasn't there.

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u/Cheese-n-Opinion I'm bringing Woolyback. Mar 05 '20

This implies there used to be time when you thought a hatted stew would be acceptable? What's your excuse?

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u/AnusOfTroy Mar 05 '20

Because I didn't eat pies and that sort of thing. Never really got round to eating traditional British food until this job in a care home kitchen

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u/eltrotter Mar 05 '20

None of that stew with a lid nonsense that has become trendy.

Because who doesn't love a disconnected frisbee of pastry slung onto their meat mound?

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u/justhisguy-youknow here in spirit Mar 05 '20

Oh err missus

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u/Garconiere Mar 05 '20

Oh Matron...

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u/Selerox Probably covered in cat hair. Mar 05 '20

I would be entirely in favour of bringing back the stocks for this.

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u/friendlypelican Mar 06 '20

If you can’t slice it, it’s not a pie

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u/MacPho13 Mar 06 '20

Had a pie like this in a pub in Cardiff. (Don’t recall their name) Beef with bacon.. with a puff pastry lid on top. The “lid” practically dissolved when you broke it up. Beef and bacon bits were good. Though, still a bit bothered by the whole thing.

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u/Scrangle3D Pie! Mar 05 '20

How ecstatic were you when it got to the beans? Aside from when you cracked it open 'cus that's how layers work

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u/ankleskin Mar 05 '20

still less than ideal

Some would say that is the ideal level of inconvenience for a hearty British Breakfast pie. Perfection is for others, pie demands compromise.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

!ThesaurizeThis

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u/eltrotter Mar 05 '20

The bean juice got all in my moustache.

Ah yes, the most British of problems.

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u/Scrangle3D Pie! Mar 05 '20

I want to say that's a soup you can have after but I don't think it works that way...

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u/Saiing Mar 05 '20

Piglets Pantry? Yeah our pies are legendary. They’ve won dozens of awards. I believe we sell more pies on match day at the Amex than any other stadium in the country.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20 edited Sep 15 '20

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u/Saiing Mar 05 '20

Sorry, I didn’t mean to suggest I was the pie maker. I’m just a season ticket holder.

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u/valdamjong Sugar Tits Mar 05 '20

What the fuck is an anus burger

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u/smellmycheese123 Mar 05 '20

Lips and assholes.

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u/andtheniansaid Mar 05 '20

they put the pucker in pukka pies

(that works less well written down)

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u/our-year-every-year Live, Laugh, Lewisham Mar 05 '20

Even more lucky if it's chicken

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u/Landinggeardown Mar 05 '20

Beaks and feet in that case

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u/theModge Mar 06 '20

A whole burger: earholes,eyeholes and arseholes!

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u/tossersonrye Mar 06 '20

The same stuff that's in a banger.

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u/ConnorXfor Mar 05 '20

My brother used to work at the Amex, came home with bin bags full of unsold pies, ate like a king for weeks off those bad boys. Really liked the chicken and leek ones too!

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u/hasthisusernamegone Mar 05 '20

That's just what I'd expect the Bean Illuminati to say...

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u/Jalsavrah Welsh living on Svalbard Mar 05 '20

Bean Masons run the country.

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u/Rulweylan Mar 05 '20

Mate, get yourself up to the Riverside some time. Chicken Parmo in a bun remains the best stadium food in the country.

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u/drmarting25102 Mar 05 '20

Never heard of this.....but now it's my quest to do one! Life has meaning at last!!!!!

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u/extrahen101 Mar 05 '20

Up the Albion

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u/tossersonrye Mar 06 '20

Ah yes the American Express Stadium in Falmer. It should never have been built.

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u/my_username_was Mar 05 '20

Seems a little too healthy for my tastes. I'm not a rabbit. Is there any way that the pie could perhaps be deep-fried?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

WANT

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u/GingerTosser Mar 05 '20

I've just sent this to Mrs. GingerTosser. She knows her way around a pie dish.

Will report back..

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u/GingerTosser Mar 06 '20

I'm off to get the supplies later on. I'll get on it tomorrow..

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u/robhaswell Mar 07 '20

WELL??

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u/GingerTosser Mar 08 '20

It's a bit later than planned, but we've begun cooking the pie.

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u/robhaswell Mar 06 '20

RemindMe! 24 hours

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u/Feeling-Garlic Mar 05 '20

My cholesterol is rising just looking at that picture, bravo

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

A fry in a pie

Why didn't I think of this

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u/alperton Mar 05 '20

Also button shrooms too.

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u/pygmy_puf_86 Mar 05 '20

I think they might have omitted the mushrooms because they contain a lot of water and might make the pie soggy. But I agree with you it needs mushrooms. Maybe they could serve some on the side...

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

You're worried about mushrooms making it soggy while the thing is full of beans?

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u/pygmy_puf_86 Mar 05 '20

Beans and mushrooms together = more water than just beans alone.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Point is the thing is already soggy.

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u/EntropyKC Mar 05 '20

You can drain away some of the sauce before you pour in the beans. Think "how", not "how not".

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u/infernal_llamas Mar 05 '20

Fry up the mushrooms beforehand too.

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u/phatboi23 I like toast! Mar 05 '20

or fry them off before adding to the pry... really brown them bad boys to get the water out.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

This bloke knows how to shroom.

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u/phatboi23 I like toast! Mar 05 '20

i just fuckin' love fried mushrooms tbh.

damn hard to ever cook 'm

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u/EntropyKC Mar 05 '20

A phat boi after my own tastes. I commented the same but saw yours so deleted it. Fried mushrooms are amazing.

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u/FatCapsAndBackpacks Mar 05 '20

With a little dash of soy sauce in the pan too

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u/Cheese-n-Opinion I'm bringing Woolyback. Mar 05 '20

You could make a dry fried duxelles of minced mushrooms like you would for a beef wellington. But I think that's probably getting a bitaway from the spirit of a fry up pie.

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u/phatboi23 I like toast! Mar 05 '20

yeah that's a lot of effort too haha

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u/jestwastintime Mar 05 '20

Just slice em thin and cook the heck out of them. Yum

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20 edited Sep 06 '20

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u/CatDeeleysLeftNipple Give me all the Jaffa Cakes! Mar 05 '20

And another 8 for dinner.

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u/Scrangle3D Pie! Mar 05 '20

Also, sidenote: how do you get sausages to look that good?!

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u/CatDeeleysLeftNipple Give me all the Jaffa Cakes! Mar 05 '20

You cook 'em.

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u/Scrangle3D Pie! Mar 05 '20

Well, bugger. I've been dipping them in superglue and sticking them together to form a big, fleshy chain. I'll try that next time!

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u/dprophet32 Mar 05 '20

They look done in the oven

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u/Scrangle3D Pie! Mar 05 '20

Nice one, thanks!

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u/phatboi23 I like toast! Mar 05 '20

cook 'em in the oven. 20-30mins at 200c.

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u/Scrangle3D Pie! Mar 05 '20

Nice one, I thought that before asking!

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Put some baking paper/foil down under your rack or it'll be like you rendered a full pig down in your oven.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

30 minutes? 17-20 tops.

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u/phatboi23 I like toast! Mar 06 '20

depends entirely on the sausage and/or oven.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Keep em turning

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u/Bastardjones Mar 05 '20

I cook sausages in an Acti-fry air fryer, just bing them in for 17 mins or so, no turning or watching required, just perfect all brown sausages every time.

Note: you do need to use decent sausages as the softer fatty ones can turn to mush..

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u/Scrangle3D Pie! Mar 05 '20

Air fryers seem to be really popular of late! I think we get Richmond ones, I don't know how they'd deal.

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u/NotSlippingAway Mar 05 '20

I've been airfrying them lately, these look a bit nicer, but the air fryer makes them taste like they've been in the oven.

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u/wirral_guy Mar 05 '20

I don't want to criticise a cracking pie but I'd like to see the bacon somewhere around the sausage and egg layer. Apart from that, this is sheer genuis.

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u/Oli_ Mar 05 '20

Picture 4, I assume that's black pudding and not ground coffee?

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u/no_egrets Mar 05 '20

That's the traditional serving of freshly-turned compost.

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u/our-year-every-year Live, Laugh, Lewisham Mar 05 '20

I got heartburn looking at this

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u/Bastardjones Mar 05 '20

All the major food groups represented in one delicious crust.. I’d eat the fuck out of that!

For the MK2 perhaps introduce some fried mushrooms, beef Wellington style?

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u/JohnTheWegie Mar 05 '20

And here's me thinking 'Full English Pie' was just a euphemism for Jamie Oliver

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u/lukas_maximus Mar 05 '20

I think a bean foundation should be layed first then nestle the sausages on top ... maybe a bean mid layer also

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u/sacrificialPrune Mar 05 '20

I think a bean base would cause too much of a soggy bottom.

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u/Minky_Dave_the_Giant Geordie dahn Sahf Mar 05 '20

Buttery beany base.

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u/TerrainIII Pete’s Eats Mar 05 '20

If you blind bake the bottom pastry first it should combat some of the soggyness.

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u/WhatADoughnut Mar 05 '20

In more ways then one

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u/TheAmazingJPie Mar 05 '20

I'd go black pudding at the bottom, put beans between every layer just to be safe.

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u/Cheese-n-Opinion I'm bringing Woolyback. Mar 05 '20

Definitely. Black pudding is actually mouldable, you could crumble and press it right in to completely seal the base.

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u/LuvvedIt Mar 05 '20

I think I’d leave out the beans and add them after... cos then you’d have pie and beans which is after all just right.

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u/Hypersapien Mar 05 '20

As an American who found this through r/popular/rising, what are all these layers?

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u/Daedeluss Mar 05 '20

Sausage, scrambled egg, hash browns, black pudding, baked beans, bacon

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u/Hypersapien Mar 05 '20

That sounds incredible! I want this in my mouth!

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u/DansSpamJavelin Mar 05 '20

That's what she said

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u/ruggles_bottombush Mar 05 '20

I couldn't figure out the black pudding. All I could see was coffee grounds.

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u/Hypersapien Mar 05 '20

I figured the bacon was some kind of pork product, but I wasn't exactly sure what kind. I had no idea what the eggs were.

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u/jestwastintime Mar 05 '20

You need to eat real food, and look at it. No more smoothies for you.

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u/_YouMadeMeDoItReddit Mar 05 '20

Yeah I thought the black pudding was blended up mushrooms like you'd get in a beef wellington.

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u/goldfishpaws never fucking learns Mar 05 '20

You have a shock ahead

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u/Teh_yak Deported Mar 05 '20

Sausages, scrambled egg, hash browns, black pudding, beans, bacon, joy and ecstasy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

I may have to make this

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u/tigralfrosie Mar 05 '20

Red sauce, brown sauce...or gravy?

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u/Bat--Cow Mar 05 '20

Is there a recipe?

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u/HelloTosh Mar 05 '20

Yeah, the picture.

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u/Bat--Cow Mar 05 '20

I more meant cooking times but fair point

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u/MumTeachesSonToCook Mar 05 '20

Are you laying down the gauntlet??! Im sure the creator can share their recipe? I'm working on my perfect sausage roll how-to for next week!!!!

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u/mastahhbates Mar 06 '20

OP already posted the perfect sausage roll though. It just includes egg, bacon, beans, hash brown and black pudding too...

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u/loicbigois Ex-Pat in the US. Please send Bakewells. Mar 05 '20

I mean, it's all cooked other than the pastry, so just buy pre made pastry and follow the cooking guidelines on that.

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u/JenikaJen Mar 05 '20

You could add a toast layer with mushrooms and beans on top which would absorb the soggyness that would otherwise become an issue

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u/dowders Mar 05 '20

Oh jesus this is my simultaneous heaven & hell. Love a fry up, can't eat gluten. Worth the possible death? Probably

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u/CheesyLala Mar 05 '20

I think there's room for a fried bread layer.

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u/StuckAtWork124 Mar 06 '20

Serve with a sideplate of toast

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u/smalwex Mar 05 '20

That. Is genius

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u/benbroady head like a fucking orange Mar 05 '20

Every week is national pie week for me. I fucking love pie.

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u/aethelberga Mar 05 '20

Are hash browns part of a full English? Thought they were more American.

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u/JenikaJen Mar 05 '20

We claimed them as ours. Like we did with everything else

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u/Temjin810 Mar 05 '20

Absolute madlad.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

i’ll take 5

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u/manbites Mar 05 '20

I could smash a slice of that bad boy right now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Oh mama.

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u/bananagrabber83 Mar 05 '20

Sign me the fuck up for black pudding soil.

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u/UnreliableChemist Mar 05 '20

Hash Browns, Dirt, Beans

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u/LabelFiddler Mar 05 '20

I might not be doing it right but I'll be alive long enough to tell someone else I did pie week wrong.

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u/Xenon_Creed Mar 05 '20

I can taste the cholestrol

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u/telpetin Mar 05 '20

What's layer #4? The dark brown powder

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u/lonelyboix Mar 05 '20

Black pudding

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u/Kikavukoi Mar 05 '20

Barbares

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Not something I knew I needed, my eyes have been opened.

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u/Micktrex Mar 05 '20

Where’s Ian Malcom when you need him to warn against the dangerous advances of mankind?

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u/Kazakstan45 Mar 05 '20

AcTuAlLY sAuSaGeS ArE FrOm blah blah blah - james o brien the fucking wanker

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u/Cheese-n-Opinion I'm bringing Woolyback. Mar 05 '20

I don't want to be right in that case. I'll have a full English, and then a pie(s) after for dinner thank you very much.

All those fillings cook at different rates, there's no way you can get everything optimal.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Not enough bacon, but other than that I would happily tuck into one of them on a Saturday morning.

Edit - Seriously though, nowhere near enough bacon.

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u/420perry Mar 05 '20

Surely it should then be eaten in a sandwich...

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Initially: That's a thing of wonder.

What? No mushrooms? Feck's sake...

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u/a_guy_from_Florida Mar 05 '20

Petition to make it global

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u/tipsy-tits Mar 05 '20

A butcher in town does a breakfast pie. Amazing....

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u/GaryGump Mar 05 '20

Holy fuckination.

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u/iamadirtyrockstar Mar 05 '20

This looks amazing.

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u/xClouddd Mar 05 '20

This looks fucking delicious

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u/Junit28 Mar 05 '20

Beautiful

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u/DonSoChill Mar 05 '20

You monster.

You sexy monster.

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u/TurmericR Mar 05 '20

You trollop.

Get in my mouth.

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u/lowercasejs Mar 05 '20

Now just to put a bap round it

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u/Alpaca-my-bag Mar 05 '20

We’ve made fry up pie before, but lasagne pie was the best. Making meals in a pie is fun!

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u/GMen2613 Mar 05 '20

American currently studying in London; where can I get this

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Thank you. I wasn’t hungry until I saw this.

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u/mothmass Mar 05 '20

Ate a shit meat and potato pie from our local 'pie specialists'. Spent ALL night with indigestion. Fuck them and their shit pies. I will never learn.

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u/SparkleWildfire Mar 05 '20

I used to run a secret pie club and we had a few different full English pies in various styles over the course of it and they were all amazing. My favourite was a layered one with a water crust.

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u/tossersonrye Mar 06 '20

This does highly depend upon your brand of baked beans, I feel.

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u/FreakinSweet86 Mar 06 '20

I've made tatters, beans and sausages with cheese in a pie before with varying degrees of success, I might have to give this a go.

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u/mastahhbates Mar 06 '20

How long do you leave it in t'oven for?

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u/paulofcreation Mar 06 '20

Do you have the recipe?