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Pie wank!
Shepherd's pie, that is. Or is it cottage pie?

I can't improve on the writeup of the friend who sent me the link:

Admittedly, the 'recipe' is a horrid approximation of the real thing, but the determination of the commenters to be gratuitously rude for very little reason has to be admired. And the descent to name calling and arguments about the US and UK and (inevitably) the War is tremendous. Football is in there too. There's also a brief display of homphobia and Bush hatred - intermingled - which can be ignored. (And then there are the sweet, plaintive posts from people who want to talk about cooking...)

Tony Blair starts things off:

That's a Cottage pie, shepherd's pie is made with lamb, the clue is in the name, shepherds don't herd cows do they?

Americans get so many things wrong, that doesn't mean you have to go along the wrongness, use the correct phrases and terminology and educate your people.

Stop perpetuating ignorance.

Which gets the reply:

Well then why not make it out of the shepherds themselves dumb***?

Other Tasty Samples:

Tony, I can see your point about subbing apples for bananas. Surely, replacing a pomaceous fruit from a tree with a herbaceous cluster-fruit would change the general structure and consistency. And I see how it correlates: replacing one red-meated, grass-fed ungulate's flesh with another will surely cause the entire flan to collapse, so to speak. You should find three other people that honestly care about whether or not their casseroles have cow or sheep in the mix and unite to form a super-team that roams the world looking for meat pie infractions. It'd be a better use of your time.

Now I assume you are American. You seem to be ignorant of many things.

Even your desserts are offensive.

What does WWII have to do with anything? Last I checked, Americans only got involved because they got attacked. You weren't saving anybody, you were defending your own country.

Heroically, I kept myself from jumping in to cry, "Don't mention the War!"

ETA:

alya1989262 has created a guide to the wank. In the form of a pie chart, of course.

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isntitironic
2008-01-16 07:21 am UTC (link)

My family calls it Cow Pie, on account of it being made of cow (plus saying 'cow pie' is really funny when all the children in a family are under twelve). And we make it like this:

1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 large onion, chopped
1 lb ground beef
1 tsp salt
1 tsp thyme
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 cup undiluted beef stock
1 cup mashed carrots
2 cups mashed potatoes

Preaheat oven to 350F. Grease a 1 1/2 quart casserole.

In a frypan, heat the butter until foamy. Add the onions and cook until transparent, then add the beef and cook until lightly browned. Season with the spices and blend in the stock. Turn into prepared casserole and spoon first carrots and then mashed potatoes over the top to make three layers.

Bake for 30 minutes or until potatoes begin to brown, and serve with tossed salad. Makes 4 servings.

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	isntitironic 2008-01-16 07:27 am UTC (link)
	And come ON, people... HOW was I the first person to post a recipe in this wank? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	shakeandbake 2008-01-16 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	I'm a cooking idiot. "Turn into prepared casserole"? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fearthainn 2008-01-16 05:06 pm UTC (link)
	I think there's a missing word there, and she means "turn into prepared casserole dish". :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shakeandbake 2008-01-16 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Ahhh! Thanks. (See the part where I'm such a cooking idiot that I couldn't even imagine where that sentence was supposed to end.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rhosyn_du 2008-01-18 04:30 am UTC (link)
	I've actually come across many recipes that refer to a casserole dish simply as "a casserole." It confused the hell out of me the first time I ran across it, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	wrongly_amused 2008-01-16 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	:( Now I'm hungry. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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