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It may be, but folks tend not to call it that.
by Broken_Hippo 10y ago
It may be, but folks tend not to call it that.
- gaius 10y agoThat's fascinating. I would expect Americans to call a beef version of a shepherd's pie a cowboy pie. Like, what do they think the word shepherd means in this context?
- chrisseaton 10y agoYeah, as a British person I never thought I'd have to be indignant about my national cuisine being so misunderstood.
- chongli 10y agoCowboy pie sounds too much like cow pie for my liking. That probably has something to do with it never becoming a term.
- chrisseaton 10y agoWhat would be wrong with cow pie? I would have thought beef pie would be very popular in the US?
- detaro 10y agoa "cow pie" is cow droppings - manure.
- Digit-Al 10y agoHa ha. Cow pie. Straight out of Desperate Dan. Should it have horns and a tail coming out of it? :-)
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoWhen I think of cowboy food, I think of stews and other things that can be easily made in one pot over the fire, honestly. Or fire-cooked meats. Like, what do they think the word shepherd means in this context? Nothing. I've always thought it was just a weird name for it, honestly. Shepherd nearly always brings up images of a man with his sheep - or maybe goats, if I'm stretching it. More often, I think folks don't give it a second thought nor consider its origin.
- jhbadger 10y agoWell, a shepherd protects sheep from danger, not hunts them. Makes sense to me that he'd eat beef -- he doesn't care about cows, after all.
- chrisseaton 10y agoWhy do you think a shepherd is protecting sheep in the first place? Just out of compassion for them? A shepherd protects them in order to be able to farm their wool and their lambs.
- jhbadger 10y agoInteresting theological implications for the 23rd Psalm in that. Perhaps that explains the obesity epidemic -- Jehovah is going to eat us!