[Closed] This isn't just a pie. This is a racist, cryptofascist oppression of a pie

Author in self publicity tweet shocker

Pah! If you're going to make an Empire Pie, do it properly......

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What next? Pol Pot Noodle? A Fidel Gastro range?

Being a meat pie I don't know how a leftie handwringer and professionally offended person would have strayed so far from the Vegan section

Oh.

On the one hand, yeah fair enough, Empire pie probably wasn't the greatest idea ever. One the other hand...it's spicy shepard's pie FFS get over it...

somewhere in the middle of that, probably.

Idi Amince beef and onion?

What next? Pol Pot Noodle? A Fidel Gastro range?

Nicely done 🙂

Lidl have a third reich risotto *

this maybe untrue.

it's spicy shepard's pie

And wafflen SS?

Imagine if she had been on the way to a gig!!
https://www.academymusicgroup.com/o2shepherdsbushempire/
Oppression by Farmers Lady Gardens!!!

See I take more issue with Pie than Empire, we've been through this, potato topped =/= pie.

And so, after virtually weeks of uneasy truce, the STW Pie War once more erupts into bloody conflict.

The Glorious Leader of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Pastry and Colouring-in will be along in a minute to educate the proletariat.... 😀

idi Amince beef and onion?

Hmmm, this doesn't taste like beef....

Islamic meat and statie?

I love it when people get outraged about other peoples' apparent outrage. 😆

Without understanding what the initial 'outrage' is actually about...

Yeah, how dare they suggest that a curry with mashed spuds on top could ever be called a pie...

The Glorious Leader of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Pastry and Colouring-in will be along in a minute to educate the proletariat...

I though his Bintasticness had most generously offered an amnesty for potato toppings, viz Shepherd's Pie etc.? Or has even His Infinite Mercy reached breaking point?

Ho Chi Mince and Onion

Chicken and Musharraf

Hot Chai Minh
Gesta-pho

I though his Bintasticness had most generously offered an amnesty for potato toppings, viz Shepherd's Pie etc.? Or has even His Infinite Mercy reached breaking point?

Dunno? Hang on and i'll consult the cookbook he sent me.....
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Nope. Pastry all the way round it must be.

Lets hope she makes it onto the Queens honours list, she'll explode.

Is Victoria sponge still OK? I need to know.

Wot about empire biscuits?

(though they were German biscuits when I were a lad)

Wot about empire biscuits?

Good point.

What about Mint Imperials?

I'm making sure our 'currant' views on Garibaldi haven't been revised by historians so I can tuck in. He was against the Catholics and into women's freedom, so I reckon we're alright there. If we forget about the freemasonry.

Cheese and onion Flan-co?

More to the point The Captain is reading Huff Post. I am SHOCKED I tell you, SHOCKED. *Wanders away muttering*

Chiang Quiche-Shek?

I'm feeling a bit guilty now about drinking this cup of coffee whilst dipping into the Peek Freans Trotsky assortment.

Sandwich - Member
More to the point The Captain is reading Huff Post. I am SHOCKED I tell you, SHOCKED. *Wanders away muttering*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Sandwich

Tuts.

Mussolini tortellini?

Is Victoria sponge still OK? I need to know.

I though his Bintasticness had most generously offered an amnesty for potato toppings, viz Shepherd's Pie etc.? Or has even His Infinite Mercy reached breaking point?

We've been through this. http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/oi-binners-what-have-you-started/page/4#post-7565463

I think we can make an exception to names of pies that aren't defined by their ingredients. That is to say, a pork pie is a pie with pork in it. A shepherd's pie does not contain shepherds, and similarly a cottage pie generally does not contain cottages.

Ie, "shepherd's pie" is the full name of a dish that is not actually a pie, in the same way that an Eccles cake is not actually a cake. See also, beef wellington.

See also, beef wellington.

Beef Wellington? Former colonial governor and general? You've opened a can of worms there.

What about fish pie?

Fist pie?

What, like Saddam en Croute?

Furry pie?

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Kim Jong Un-ion bhaji?

Nuremberger with cheese?
A strawberry flavoured pop isil?

I'm off for a sandwich.
As a republican, should I avoid the coronation chicken?

Might have a pint of provisional IPA with it.......

I love it when people get outraged about other peoples' apparent outrage.

Without understanding what the initial 'outrage' is actually about...

Whatever the apparent outrage, as stealth marketing it's a bit of a coup, isn't it? I'm actually quite liking the look of that! Bravo to the M&S social media team!

Do these idiots that complain on behalf of all the people that 'may' be offended ever actually ask those people that they think might be offended if they are/would be offended? Or are they just ****s?

Stroganoff, now that was utterly ruthless empire building

"Might have a pint of provisional IPA with it......."

Nice. Or maybe a pint of Badger Golden Dawn*?

*Yes, I have made this mistake. More than once. 😳

"Do these idiots that complain on behalf of all the people that 'may' be offended ever actually ask those people that they think might be offended if they are/would be offended? Or are they just ****?"

I'm wondering on whose behalf [i]you're[/i] offended? 😕

As a chap from one of the former colonies and heritage of another, i agree with the tweeter. She wasn't offended, neither am I. However, I find the idea of the empire 'distasteful'. I don't have good associations with it and so yes, it 'leaves a nasty taste in the mouth'.

No need to take offence. Your associations with the word empire, might be quite positive. I won't buy it, I also avoid coronation chicken.

Pah! If you're going to make an Empire Pie, do it properly......

That's no moon pie.

Or maybe a pint of Badger Golden Dawn*

What's your view on Peróni - fruity populism with a distinctly fascistic aftertaste?

I like to finish a meal with a Ho Chi Mint.

"I also avoid coronation chicken."

But that's because it's horrible, let's be honest.

"What's your view on Peróni - fruity populism with a distinctly fascistic aftertaste?"

Think I prefer a Pinochet Noir...

Hey if you want to see political controversy with far reaching and profound global, theological and spiritual impact, try living on a Diet of Worms

Wasnt coronation chicken invented for Victoria, specifically using ingredients from all over her Empire:, almonds, curry powder, raisins, mayo?!?

Wasn't it for our current Queenie's coronation?

Junta's Chicken

it's a bit of a coup, isn't it?

Its a lot of a coup - its a great big Desperate Dan's Coup Pie!

Wasn't it for our current Queenie's coronation?

Either way, I don't like what the name represents

I'm wondering on whose behalf you're offended?

I'm not offended and am never offended on other people's behalf 😀

maccruiskeen - Member

its a great big Desperate Dan's Coup Pie!

Good work.

Thing is, it's a stupid name for a pie. It's nothing to get too worked up about but it's a throwback.

(and why do people always say "offended"? The original tweet was critical, not offended. It seems like most of the response has gone directly to misrepresentation and gone from there, which I think tells you a lot...)

that's what i was saying!

"I'm not offended and am never offended on other people's behalf"

Are you sure? It's just that you appear to be offended about something that no-one is actually 'offended' about...

So you're offended that someone's offended that someone else is offended by on behalf of someone else who might be offended but no-one's really offended at all, except for someone hitherto unmentioned whom might be offended after all, we just don't know?

I think I need a lie down.

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No one here is offendi!

As a chap from one of the former colonies and heritage of another, i agree with the tweeter. She wasn't offended, neither am I. However, I find the idea of the empire 'distasteful'. I don't have good associations with it and so yes, it 'leaves a nasty taste in the mouth'.

No need to take offence. Your associations with the word empire, might be quite positive. I won't buy it, I also avoid coronation chicken.

CountZero nails it. M&S didn't create the "Empire", just a pie. BTW, does it taste nice?

That's no moon pie.

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M&S, famous for latter day slave labour practices make a racist pie. Shock

Actual Cyptofascist Beer. 😆 Only 88 (code for heil hitler) cents - best before date - a pogrom.

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Well, I find the actions of the Roman Empire distasteful when they invaded my country, I find the actions of the Holy Roman Empire distasteful, just because, and I find the Empire-building actions of the former USSR, and the current Russia distasteful.
Any more Empires you might want to add to the list?
You might want to write this down and meditate on it:
"The past is a foreign country, they do thing differently there."

You raise a valid point, one of my wifes friend - a hipster type living in the states wrote a lovely blog article basically stating that le shock horror....her own contrymen can be racist...but like *cue upward inflection*..."[i]I didn't realize it cuz the west is the one historically responsible for empire and subjugation of other cultures.[/i]" Conveniently forgetting the Mongol, South American, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese empires - and lots wonderful oppressions such as the Chinese oppression of Tibetanss, Filipino suppression of Aetas (yes Fililipinos aren't indigenous - she ****ing loved that when I mentioned it) or Tamils etc etc ad ****ing nauseum.

We just simply did oppression better than them, historical ignorants everywhere.

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Any more Empires you might want to add to the list?
You might want to write this down and meditate on it:
"The past is a foreign country, they do thing differently there."

yeah, but none of the others oppressed my immediate family.

But if you think the past is remote and unconnected to the present i guess it means i can call you an ignorant fool now. And not worry about it later

I think we may need a name purge..
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yeah, but none of the others oppressed my immediate family.

But if you think the past is remote and unconnected to the present i guess it means i can call you an ignorant fool now. And not worry about it later

Oh okay, if we're only caring about empires that have oppressed our familes......then.... #*theAustroHungarianEmpire #longliveIsrael #*palestine

I boycott Coronation Street.

How could they name the show after such an evil concept? It's literally worse than Hitler.

Oh okay, if we're only caring about empires that have oppressed our familes......then.... #*theAustroHungarianEmpire #longliveIsrael #*palestine

Well, I don't know about 'we', I don't really know which empires you don't like to see celebrated. But me, I don't really like one the group that slot at my father and beat up my grandfather on one side and interned some of my family on the other. So, whilst I do have views on other empires, this one is one I really don't like very much. I guess much the same way I don't like bullies, but i really don't like bullies who pick on my kids.

How could they name the show after such an evil concept? It's literally worse than Hitler.

Well that is an interesting idea! I wonder what the real numbers are

Are you sure? It's just that you appear to be offended about something that no-one is actually 'offended' about...

was just wondering lol, appearances can be deceptive 😆