Beer and Pie combinations. Was: Most Perl 6 will look like Perl 5

[Billy Abbott]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, John Costello wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Bob Walker wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, David Cantrell wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:55:40PM +0000, Kake L Pugh wrote:
>>>> This has made me wonder about using beer in sweet pies rather than
>>>> savoury ones.  I had a quite fantastic pint of Downton Chocolate
>>>> Orange stout at the Bricklayer's Arms in Putney the other week.  I
>>>> wonder if it would be possible to incorporate that into some kind of
>>>> pie.  Although chocolate pies do tend to be heretical pies.
>>>
>>> I think that, chocolate being one of the essential ingredients in a
>>> balanced diet, it is an exception from the rule that "the pie that
>>> contains not meat is not the true pie".
>>
>> its more that chocolate pies normally arnt entirely encased in pastry.
>
> Should be possible to do so, or even to make chocolate pastry shells,
> though that might lead to strange things such as chocolate chicken mole
> pies (chicken + mole + poblano peppers inside a chocolate pastry shell).

Depending on what you define as pastry you can call many things pie, a 
standard trick in pie-offs that I may have been involved in

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cowfish/228185848/

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