We asked 100 dads: what are you hoping to receive for Father’s Day?
Here’s what they said.
Don’t forget, you can still order excellent gifts for pie loving dads from The What Pie Shop. Although if you are in the UK you might want to get a wriggle on, as they are manufactured in the USA, and delivery can take a week or so.
May I recommend a T-shirt with an extremely lovely pie on it, and the legend “Make Pies Not War”, “Happiness is a Warm Pie”, “In Crust We Trust” or “Give Pies A Chance”. Or a mug along similar lines. There are even “Happiness is a Warm Pie” boxer shorts. Man we spoil you.
Oxfam have closed their Big Noise music download service. So links on older pie reviews will no longer work. Sorry. Whatpie will attempt to redirect those hitherto easily accessed musical accompaniments at some point.
For now, new pie profiles will carry links to suitable (or, more likely, just pun-tastic) sonic offerings via www.last.fm.
You can carry on voting if you like, but there’s just no fighting it. Short crust has won the great “What topping would you choose as a topping on your pie if you could choose any kind of topping (from this list of three types of topping)” poll, enabling the humble flower-based favourite to sneer and go ”in your face” at both puff pastry and mash.
It’s the times we live in: regulate this, scrap that, quantitative easing, yada yada blurgh. But what people are really asking, from the Today Programme to that nice Barry O’Bama, is this: what is the best way of topping a pie? Puff pastry, all succulent and fluffy? Short crust, honest, stout, dependable and fearless. Or mash, with its dreamlike dollops of comfort and joy?
Sicilian Spinach Pasty, F. Lli Pistorio SNC, Catania, Sicily
A Sicilian take on the international language of pasties, containing spinach, tomatoes, olives and some other things I can’t translate from the baker’s helpful list of ingredients . . .
Guinness is always nice in a pie. And this one is a big old Desperate Dan style take-one-whole-cow-and-squash-into-crust behemoth, with a pleasantly ripe boozy tang and no chewy beef shenanigans.
As you can see, this steak pie from the menu of the Wetherspoon’s pub chain looks more like a nissan hut than an object of culinary delight. It tastes like one too. Plasterboard crust and dried up sludge. Mmmm.
Don’t forget, you can still buy lovely heartmelting pie cards for Valentine’s Day. Actually, you might want to check when post from the US is likely to arrive, because frankly you’ve left it a bit late. But anyway, pies, romance, etc.
