Your Regional Road Trip Itinerary

Are you a foodie who would travel far and wide for a dish you’ve yet to try? You haven’t seen this kind of road trip before! Check out our regional pie road trip, taking you all the way from the Scottish Highlands to the English Coast – all in the name of pie.

Scotch Pie

Origin: Scotland This traditional, mince filled Scottish pie is a perfect winter warmer. Best served hot, with a side of baked beans. Mucky Mouth Pie

Scouse Origin: Yorkshire Pie The bilberries in this sweet Northern English Origin: Liverpool pie have a tendency to Filled with lamb, potatoes stain the eater’s tongue and vegetables, Scouse and lips blue – giving it its Pie is a stew within a puff unique name. pie. DID YOU KNOW? Every year, Wigan hosts the annual World Pie Eating Parys Championship. The 2012 champ ate his pie in a Pastie record breaking time of 22.53 seconds.

Origin: Anglesey Half sweet and half savoury, this pie was popular among copper miners as Melton a convenient way to have a Mowbray two-course meal while working.

Origin: Leicestershire Fidget Named after the town in Pie Leicestershire, Melton Mowbray pork pies became popular among fox hunters and farm workers in the Origin: Shropshire seventeenth century. Combining gammon, apple and cider, this has been a DID YOU popular pie for the last few KNOW? hundred years. Although Shakespeare may have Ludlow claims to be the pie’s killed off many characters in many ways in his 37 plays. originator, its exact origins But only two of his have never been confirmed. characters have seen their doom by being baked into a pie!

Bacon Badger Plough Pudding

Origin: Buckinghamshire FUN FACT Origin: Norfolk Buckinghamshire’s most The origin of this pie’s Traditionally served in January, famous rolled pie is filled name is said to hark back Plough Pudding contains pork to when “badger” was a with bacon, onion and colloquial term for “trade sausage meat, bacon and onion, potatoes – no badgers dealer”, especially for and is housed in suet pastry. were harmed in the ingredients like flour. making of this pie!

Pie and Pigeon Mash Pie

Origin: London Traditional working-class food, Pie and Mash has been popular in London DID YOU Origin: since the 19th century. KNOW? Often served with In 1644, Oliver Cromwell Popular among European banned pies, which were cuisines throughout history, jellied eels. then associated with pagan an early source suggests customs. The ban was lifted in 1660. cooking this savoury with pork fat or bitter limes. Stargazy Pie Origin: Sussex This sweet combination of Origin: bananas and toffee on top of With roots in Cornish crumbled biscuits has been folklore, Stargazy Pie adopted all around the world. has potatoes, eggs and a white sauce, but is DID YOU best known for KNOW? pilchards poking The Ancient Egyptians are believed to have been through its crust. the first to make pies from a wheat or oat pastry, filled with honey.

Inspired to make your own regional British pies? Get everything you need from your nearest convenience store.

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