Infernal chicken pot pie!

Chagen

Stop falling apart every time I try to consume your tasty innards!

glennmagusharvey

Ahh, pot pies.

I used to make an activity out of consuming their innards without breaking the crust.

JHM

Chaos is the point! I love disintegrating pot pie!

Crimson

Are you people eating a pot pie with your hands or something? The disintegrating crusts aren't a problem if you eat it with a spoon.

Chagen

I was eating it with a spoon...

Waltzy

This thread makes me soooo hungry

D8

Dammit now I wanna cook like everything in the house

ClockworkUniverse

So do it.

TheConductor

In Scotland, you get steak pies in tins.

Wicked223

>2011

>eating chicken pot pie

IanExMachina

Ah so a pot pie is kind of like a pasty.

glennmagusharvey

Pot pies are some of the best things ever.

^ I dunno what a pasty is, but think of a typical pie--apple pie, pumpkin pie, etc., and then replace the contents with meat and veggies suspended in a thick fluid, of salty flavor of course rather than the usual sweetness of a pie.

Much better than it reads.

TheConductor

Over here, most pies are savory. Though apple and cherry (and I'm sure others) exist. 

IanExMachina

^^

As the Conductor says most pies over here are savoury, sweet pies are still eaten but are a lot less common so the when thinking of pies over here most people are likely to think of a savoury one.

So it just sounds like a pie from that, but apparently according to the internet a pot pie is like a normal pie but all the pastry is flaky pastry rather than just the top.

Which is similar to a pasty which is a savoury pastry wrapped meal with potatoes, gravy and meat and maybe other vegetables in it.

glennmagusharvey

Well, here if you go to the store and find, in the frozen foods section, a "chicken pot pie" or a "beef pot pie", you'll get a savoury/salty flavored pie that's basically a thick meat stew in a half-soggy pie crust.  And it's delicious.

However, I've occasionally gotten what is identified as "pot pie" in dining halls while at university (or college, or institute since that's what it technically was called, or your preferred term for an institution of higher education), and sometimes it came in the following form: thick meat stew with two puffy pastries (which didn't contain anything themselves) on top.

IanExMachina

Is all the pastry flaky on those frozen pies?

If not then they are just a normal pie, says the internet.

The second one sounds like stew with strange dumplings or yorkshire puddings.

Did the things on top look roughly like this:

glennmagusharvey

No, the frozen pies have non-flaky crust/pastry.

The dining hall ones had flaky pastry on top, unlike the ones in your picture.

IanExMachina

Hmm then those frozen ones are just normal pies in the UK then.

(Also possibly in the US according to Wikipedia).

Never heard of those things on the stew then

Radd

This is in contrast to the Australian meat pie and many British regional variants on pie recipes, which may have a top of flaky pastry, but whose body is made from heavier, more mechanically stable shortcrust, hot water crust or similar pastry.