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07/03/2012 12:45 | By Neil Davey, contributor, MSN Food
Top 10 British pies (and where to try them)

To celebrate British Pie Week, we've rounded-up some of the UK's most amazing pies...

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Across the UK, there's currently a huge celebration of American food culture. We like a good burger and a hotdog as much as the next man but isn't it time the Brits struck back and celebrated the pie? Others agree, and so 4-10 March is British Pie Week. To celebrate, we've compiled a round-up of some of the best pies available in the UK and where to go to sample them. Mmmm...

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Terry (Reddenning)
15/03/2012 02:26
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If you are going to write an article on pies you would have thought that the minimum qualification would have been the ability to distinguish a pie from something which looks like the disgorged contents of the waste disposal unit!  A disassembled pie no more constitutes a pie than a pile of steel plates and rivets constitutes a ship. Whoever wrote this load of deluded tripe and whoever dreamed up a deconstructed pie (obviously in some trendy food boutique) needs to be sent on an intensive pie recognition course at the University of Wigan, preferably the ten year course until they can tell a Bedfordshire Clanger from a culinary one.  In the meantime MSN please appoint a new pie correspondent, preferably someone, or anyone, who was born and raised north of the Trent could fill the bill.
john mclaren (kiwijock)
08/03/2012 08:18
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it would seem that the contributer has been afflicted with that well known mental disease

THE WATFORD GAP

jp a
08/03/2012 02:30
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to put Greggs pies in the list of the "top 10 British pies" is insulting.

a (bluewolfe)
08/03/2012 11:42
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Top 10 ( BRITISH ) pies .......!
Britain consists of N.I.,Wales,England and Scotland....Why no mention of the Scotch pie with its amazing pastry case or the ASHET pie or the Forfar Bridie.....MSN you dont have a fekkin clue ya bunch of numpties.....!

Windows Live User (Major Bloodnok)
09/03/2012 12:16
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Fray Bentos is Argentinian. Argentina encourages that they do not buy British, so Fray Bentos can stick its pies
mark nolan (Music Lover 200911)
09/03/2012 11:24
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Its like with fish and chips in London - not a clue. BNo wonder tourists wonder what all the fuss is about when they have fish and chips in London. Having lived in London for 10 years and coming from a fishing town I can say that the "fish and chips" that are served in London to tourists is a sad, badly filleted, bony, fatty embarrassment
roy t (roy209)
09/03/2012 17:59
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No one has mentioned Hollands in the north west.

Simply the best pies or steamed steak puddings you will ever eat.

If you are in greater Manchester you know this already

Mr Cold Digger (Mr Cold Digger)
08/03/2012 11:14
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A slide show of pies.

 

I shouldn't have looked at this nearly 3 hours before lunchtime.

Arturo hurley (ArturotheRed)
08/03/2012 10:42
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My dad made the best pies I ever tasted Scouse Pies in fact. He made the pastry the night before and had his own recipe for the filling. Good beef steak was the main ingredient with a whole host of vegetables. The pastry melted in your mouth and the juicy gravy ran down your lips. Fantastic after a hard days work. But that was in the 1980s. Sadly he passed on. I wish I had the recipe for the pies now though. Would open a  shop right by liverpools football ground and sell em. Ha
veronica martin (veronica xx)
08/03/2012 10:08
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The best pies are always homemade ones.

 

It is so difficult to buy a pie that has the correct type of pastry for the filling, that has enough filling without a layer of air all around it or a pie that does not have a soggy base.

 

Yuk .

 

I make my own.

Roger Benham (Chvant)
09/03/2012 18:08
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No mention for Wigan pies?  The capital of pie eating in the world doesn't get a mention?  Then again, no one north of London seems to have either, beyond Greggs.
terry grass (Big Tez)
08/03/2012 13:53
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What a Load of Rubbish .

They have not even got Holland's pies on the list .When Delia has them sent from Accrington to Norwich they should be top of the list,she knows a good pie when she sees one.

The people who have put this list together have never eaten a pie in their lives.

Southerners wouldn't know a good pie if it hit them in the face.

Marti (stricken_one)
08/03/2012 01:48
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First, who made me "stricken one? ??? not me!!!! However, good this list may be it is clear the writer has hardly travelled out side london! We have in Brampton Cambs, a small butchers shop "Measures" by name that produces some of the finest Steak and Ale and other fresh cooked delights at a price the average person can afford, These pies have indeed one prizes in regional competitions. So msn if you are writing about the finest pies in the country stop playing at it and produce a PROPER list
J .
09/03/2012 19:55
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This is rubbish a deconstructed pie? looks like a Sunday roast!

Get a northern Growler....  (usually made from dead dogs and other bits the southerners would not touch)  and now your talking!!

A Hollands peat and potato pie is a good start, (you can get them now in the freezers at Tesco) but you have to go to Bury market to get the best!!!

stephen spence
08/03/2012 12:32
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This pie list should be re-named the ten best pies in the south of england!
chris farrimond
09/03/2012 09:59
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How is it possible that such a place in London.. and another place in London get mentions but Wigan, the home of pies, doesn't get a mention. Greenalghs, Galloways, and Pooles, rule the pie world!
Nathan Linney (linney75)
08/03/2012 03:03
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I, comment in total disbelief !!  Who on earth, thinks for a single minute, that a cold piece, of thick, hard, cold pastry, is the 'Best, British, Pie'?  As for you poor, 'Sorry' 'Misguided' individuals that have nothing else to waste, or squander there money on in the capital, might I suggest an alternative,?  Get a life, move out of the capital, and find real life in the backstreets, of the 'Northwest'.  And NO 'Ginsters' Straight from the cold isle will not do!! 
PETER PIPER (ISPEAKASIFIND)
09/03/2012 11:06
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What about Pie Minister in Bristol? There's also a pie shop on the road from Margam to Port Talbot which makes beautiful pies (sorry, can't remember the name)

How did Gregg's get on this list? They're generally quite tasty pies, but certainly not Top 10 or even Top 50.

keith john worley (scrumpyking)
08/03/2012 08:30
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No matter what part of the country you are from enjoy your favourite pie.
Trish Monaghan (Bubs660)
08/03/2012 03:46
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Greggs????? What the ****!!!!!!!!!! Their pies and sausage rolls are just dreadful. They have hardly any filling and what is inside is so full of pepper it renders it inedible. A long way from what they were when it was Thurstons. The last 3 items I bought from there went in the bin as that was all they were fit for. If that's the best of the British pies then we may as well give up
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