Meat and potato pie

Meat and potato pie is a popular variety of pie eaten in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cumbria in Northern England. Of note, this dish is popular in towns such as Barrow-in-Furness,^[1] Blackburn and, notably, Wigan (whose residents are known as the pie-eaters^[2]). A meat and potato pie has a similar filling to a Cornish Pasty and differs from a meat pie in that its content is often minced and usually less than 50% meat. They are typically eaten as take-aways.

It consists of a pastry casing filled with potato, either lamb or beef, and sometimes carrot and/or onion.^[3] They can often be bought in a specialty pie shop, a type of bakery concentrating on pies, or in a chip shop.

The dish has been promoted by cooking duo The Hairy Bikers. One of the two, David Myers, claims that they are his favourite food, choosing Green's Pie Shop in his home town of Barrow-in-Furness, as his favourite pie-makers.^[4]^[1]

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^ ^a ^b ONE OF THE BEST AREAS FOR FRESH FOOD IN UK Goodson, Susan 18/07/08; Accessed 06/01/08
^ Wigan, Lancashire, UK BBC; 15-01-01; Accessed 06-01-08
^ Meat and Potato pie The Independent; 18/11/06; Accessed 06/01/08
^ Hairy bikers for the soul The Scotsman; 01/01/08; Accessed 06/01/08

British pies

Sweet	Apple pie Bakewell tart Banoffee pie Bedfordshire clanger Black bun Custard tart Lemon meringue pie Manchester tart Mince pie Rhubarb pie Treacle tart

Savoury	Bacon and egg pie Bedfordshire clanger Bridie Butter pie Chicken and mushroom pie Corned beef pie Cornish pasty Cottage pie Cumberland pie Curry pie Devizes pie Fish pie Game pie Homity pie Killie pie Meat and potato pie Melton Mowbray pork pie Pork pie Scotch pie Shepherd's Pie Squab pie Stargazy pie Steak pie Steak and kidney pie Woolton pie

Manufacturers	Clark's Pies Dickinson & Morris Fray Bentos Ginsters Higgidy Holland's Pies Mr Kipling Peter's Pork Farms Pukka Pies Shire Foods Square Pie Wall's Wrights Pies

Meat and potato pie

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