Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My mom would always make about 6 meat pies for Christmas. It seemed to be a French Canadian tradition with the recipe coming from her mom. Nothing tastes as good as a French meat pie. We started eating them Christmas eve and by the end of the day Christmas they were all gone. Only four young kids and one hungry dad. Gee I miss those days. Len On Jan 27, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > Ecch! My mother used to give us Swanson Chicken Pot Pies, and they > were > basically a soggy crust filled with white gravy that burned the > roof of my > mouth. I'm not sure I ever saw a trace of chicken in one, but they > did have > peas. > Jeffery > > On Jan 27, 2008 3:11 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Marc Rabiner offered: >> >> Subject meat pies! >> >>>> Hi Ted! >> >> Where I'm coming from in my question of mystery meat is the >> stupendous >> film >> >> that's out now I just saw "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet >> Street" >> >> Where meet pies are illustrated and discused and eaten with relish! >> >> A brilliant film from the Broadway Musical the pies were made from >> the >> customers of the Barber shop. >> >> So you had Architect stew. Photographer Potage and so on. >> >> Only they were all pies. >> >> Sure made me hungry for meat pie! >> >> >> >> When I was a kid my mom served us Swanson meat pies I just didn't >> like >> them >> because they had pea's in them. >> >> Her Dad, Joe Evans was a Welshman I suppose. >> >> They all say I take after him. Plan to visit the place one day.<< >> >> Marc, that Sweeney Todd film is enough to turn everybody off from >> meat >> pies >> or eating! :-( >> >> Now if you ever decide to go to Wales give me a reasonable lead >> date and >> I'll have a few "Taffies" waiting to give you the time of yer life >> around >> the old Motherland!!" :-) >> >> Oh and not to worry about eating as my relatives make excellent >> meat pies >> and not from the remains in a Sweeney Todd movie! ;-) >> >> ted >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Jeffery L. Smith > New Orleans, LA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information