Scotch pies

[Diane CBPFC]

Scotch pies are really nummy. I used to only get one when I went to the Highland Games but now I can pick some up in a place called Whitecourt. I am eating one right now. How can that be you wonder when she`s on a diet - well they only have 290 calories so if I just have green salad with one that is a low cal lunch.

Scotch pies. Discuss.

[Vulture]

Diane, I've never heard of a 'scotch pie'; I love scotch eggs...... are they anything similar?

[Roger Kettle]

Diane, as far as I know, a Scotch pie is the only foodstuff on Earth that contains grey meat. I have never enquired further.

[The Peepmaster]

I love Scotch pies. Sorry to hear they make you nummy, Diane.

[Joan]

Are you talking about mutton pies, Diane? Sounds like Roger's description. My Mum used to buy them from Corson's bakers in Castle Douglas for my Dad's lunch on Saturdays.

[Diane CBPFC]

I could read the lable on the box Joan - but would you mind waiting until I have enjoyed the whole box first - I'm too scared to look.

[Fyodor]

Best to stop eating after your arteries explode. Tasty though.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

For maximum enjoyment, however, they are best digested accompanied by a paper cup full of radioactive Bovril, whilst standing on the windswept terraces of Gayfield (sic) Park, Arbroath, having your extremities frozen off during a mind-numbing nil-nil Division Three encounter. Heaven!

[Diane CBPFC]

They go nice with a bit of green salad too TTIII

I did look Joan - they are made out of beef - they must grind it two or three times and add the grey food colouring.

[The Peepmaster]

Artificial food colouring makes me violetly ill.

[Bilthehut]

It can make you turn puce as well.

[Malc]

Scotch pies were traditionally mutton, and just about all meat is grey at the point of supply, unless you get it fresh.
Mince (ground beef that is) is grey after a few hours of sitting in the butcher's and a lot of meat at the deli or butcher shop looks pink because of red fluoro light installed under the display counter.

I used to love the trad Scotch pies, with the raised rim and the hole in the centre. We used to cook them upside down to let all the fat run out of that hole. When I go back to my mum's in April I will have about one a day on average.

[Diamond Lil]

Malc, the raised rims of long ago are now filled to the top with the "meat" mixture, a layer of baked beans and topped off with mashed potato.....or macaroni cheese for the veggies, chicken curry, braised "stew" and carrots etc etc.  What a plethora of pies to choose from now when you visit in April

[Malc]

Lil, we used to fill the rims ourselves, but only after we'd let the fat out. So if the rims are pre-filled, how do you de-grease the pie?
It's not natural, I tell 'ee

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Malky, it's the de-greasing that's not natural. You're killing it! A Scotch pie is nothing without burning hot fat dribbling down your chin onto your football shirt upon the first bite.