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Pub classic steak and ale has been voted the nation’s No.1 pie, according to research by Jus-Rol.
The number of people baked into a pie in Shakespeare’s play Titus Andronicus, where Queen Tamora’s sons are baked into one and served to her. Price in pounds for a pie at Chelsea FC – the most expensive in the Premier League.
The odds offered in 2017 that Sutton goalie Wayne Shaw would eat a pie on camera. The stunt during a match landed him with a fine. stone. Weight of the Victorian keeper William “Fatty” Foulke – the heaviest-ever professional player – who gave rise to the game’s chant: “Who ate all the pies?” seconds. The time builder Ian Gerrard took to scoff a meat and potato pie to scoop the title at the recent World Pie Eating Championships held at Harry’s Bar in Wallgate, Wigan.
% of us prefer chips with our pie to mash, research by Pukka Pies found. % of us eat at least one pie a month.
Age of Rolling Stones rocker
Keith Richards, who always has shepherd’s pie before going on stage.
BRITS love a tasty baked treat – and tomorrow British Pie Week kicks off, giving us more reason than ever to tuck in.
The annual event celebrates our favourite savoury and sweet dishes. But just how much do you know about them? Here JAMES MOORE munches the numbers about our pastry obsession to serve up some brilliant bite-sized figures… % of us think they’re the ultimate comfort food, according to a survey by Nisa. Calories in Jamie Oliver’s recent recipe for a cauliflower cheese pizza pie. pounds a slice for the world’s most expensive meat pie, left, sold at the Fence Gate Inn in Lancashire in 2005, stuffed with prime Japanese wagyu beef fillet. Year the word ‘pye’ was first recorded in English. The first known recipe for an apple pie came in 1381.
The year a ban on mince pies, introduced by killjoy Oliver Cromwell in 1644, was lifted.
Year that Desperate
Dan, of cow pie eating fame, first appeared in the
Dandy comic, right.
Number of
Greggs outlets across Britain, famous for its Steak Bakes. Year Tony’s Pie and Mash eatery was established in East London, a favourite of football legend David Beckham.
The number of pies the average adult will consume over their lifetime. years ago – when experts say that the ancient Egyptians were eating pies filled with dates and figs.
Number of pies judged since the British Pie Awards started in 2009. This year’s event will be held this week in Melton Mowbray, Leics, known as the UK’s pork pie capital. lb. Weight of the world’s largest meat pie, made in Warwickshire in 1998. pounds are spent in Britain on mince pies every Christmas. pounds is splashed out on pork pies across the country annually, according to statistics from Kantar.
pounds. Our total spend on pies as a nation per year. Yum.