The Potato Cam!

sweet. You pick out the best cool toys  :-) 

Thanks! I have been on the Pico diet for so long I am thrilled to indulge in some of the real pies

Hey, I'm from the Big Apple!! Thats Not Pie this is: 

That looks like a margherita pizza slice.

Over here a pie would typically be food that is baked in a pastry-lined dish, usually with a pastry top covering it.

Dave where is over here??  Yes, but that stuff is Desert (Fruit tarts, a nice Canoli,  a Rum Baba, and the other stuff) but, this is PIE. 

 If we're going for pizza pie... Chicago Deep Dish.     Picture source: Wikipedia.

For desserts, I like Boston Cream Pie - but is it even a pie?

We don't tend to differentiate like that in the UK. Pie can be fruit, meat, vegetable, pasta etc. If it is wrapped up in pastry then its generally falls under the general classification of pie.  

We don't tend to differentiate like that in the UK. Pie can be fruit, meat, vegetable, pasta etc. If it is wrapped up in pastry then its generally falls under the general classification of pie.  

Ooo... a pie chart with imaginary (hidden) slices.

Baked bean or macaroni pies are available here in Scotland.

And a mince pie would get you a meat pie otherwise known as a Scotch Pie

 dougw the slices look a little burnt. 

The macaroni pies here used to be good until the 'new improved recipe' came along which resulted in a handful of hot greasy runny mess if you tried to eat it out of the paper bag on the way back to the office.

Scotch Pie's I miss. Complete with the vent hole in the centre. 

Do you still get 'sore head' cakes ? Iced sponge cake with the distinctive greaseproof wrapper around the outside like a bandage ? I was trying to do a web search for them a few months back but nothing came up.

We call them pastei. Although the recipes that are common here are different from the  Angelsaxon dishes, the principle is the same.

I never understood why people were so crazy about pies on the islands, until I ate one over there. They are delicious.
This is where I ate my first: Sweeney and Todd, Reading.

The last one was a shepherd’s pie a few months ago at Wilde, Chicago.

Shepherd's pie / cottage pie / mariner's pie is a strange one as it tends to break the rules. I've never seen it in a pastry base nor have I seen it with a pastry lid. The topping is usually mashed potato lightly grilled. It is often made in a pie dish however.

The likes of steak pie / meat and potato pie on the other hand is usually fully enclosed in pastry and thus true to form.

They used to have 'pie nights' at the local pub and I suspect it created a lot of pie / not pie type arguments.