{"id":1226,"date":"2020-03-27T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2020-06-19T08:28:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T08:28:33","slug":"demise-of-the-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/03\/27\/demise-of-the-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"DEMISE OF THE PIE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contributed by Paul Arthur<\/span><\/div>\n
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Perhaps it is my age. Or my impoverished 70’s upbringing. Or, just maybe, it is that pies taste good and salad… well, let’s face it, it’s no competition.<\/span><\/div>\n
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For a number of years I have enjoyed lunchtime forays into the pastry-encased joy* of the Bowland Pie. In fairness I had not made the pilgrimage for some time when I discovered, to my utter horror, that Bowland is now a Salad Bar.<\/span><\/div>\n
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‘What?!!!’ My outrage was evident to colleagues (it is hard not to be evident in the closely-packed virus-fermenter that is the workspace favoured by University House). The discovery had been triggered by a suggestion that we should embark on a pie lunch as we had not done so in some time. Over the next few minutes the office buzzed with comments ranging from muted dismay to shouted demands for industrial action.<\/span><\/div>\n
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To understand my sense of loss you must first appreciate the extent to which pies are at the very core of my existence. Whilst travelling in New Zealand some years ago I wrote a blog in which I sampled pies as I travelled (New Zealanders make very good pies). My well-thumbed pie bible ‘Life of Pies’ by the venerable Martin Tarbuck is oft reached-for if I am to travel in the UK. I have shares in Greggs, although that is actually making the best of a bad lot where campus pie-provision is concerned.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Why? Why would you replace pie with salad? Salad has its place, of course. Somewhere in the footer of a menu that features a long list of excellent pies, perhaps.<\/span><\/div>\n
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So, my plea to our revered University Catering colleagues is this. Bring back the Bowland Pie, lest I fade away living a life of quiet despair as I rock in a corner of University House.<\/span><\/div>\n
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* Disclaimer: I am aware that the Bowland Pie was not, in fact, encased in pastry. As a pie topped in pastry it did not, in my somewhat puritanical approach to the world of pie, achieve full compliance with the definition. ‘Joy’ is also stretching things a bit, but I am using a little artistic licence here in order to make my point.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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