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What's the white stuff called?
This article could do with expanding, like a history section —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.88.7 ( talk) 14:19, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
I see this has been in the article since at least February: "Fillings added to the pork include apples, pickled cucumbers or bacon." Apples, yes; bacon, I can believe; but surely "pickled cucumbers", as a filling added to the pork and baked in the pie, is a confusion with English (ie Branston-type) pickle, which is available as a ( Pork Farms) supermarket variant of the "normal" snack or picnic pork pie? I'm happy to be proved wrong, but it seems unlikely. Ghughesarch ( talk) 23:50, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
One would assume that, to qualify as a Melton Mowbray pork pie, not only would the pie have to be baked within the area in question, but the ingredients would have to be local as well. If you could bring in pork from anywhere and make the pies in the Melton area, doesn't this make a nonsense of protected status? After all, surely the local farming and stock-rearing conditions contribute no less to the quality of the finished product than the fact of where it's made? Yet I noticed something odd on a Melton Mowbray pork pie sold at ASDA. The main label claims that it was made within the Melton Mowbray protected area, but the closure label, in extremely small print, states "made in the UK, pork from the EU." This may well comply with the letter of the regulations, but is very far, surely, from the spirit of them. Pavel ( talk) 12:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Should the article not define, or at least reference, the designated area for the PDO? ratarsed ( talk) 11:53, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
I think the description of how the "long egg" in a Gala Pie is made is wholly fanciful and may have been intended as a joke. As far as I am aware the eggs are just boiled and lined up inside the pie before it is baked (online recipes seem to back this up). The original reference for this seems to be a jokey comment. Deicide ( talk) 21:50, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
In my opinion, the 'External image' link should be removed from the 'Variations' tab in the article and moved to the 'External links' section of the article. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 16:26, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
An editor keeps adding that Yorkshire Pork pies are served hot to the Melton Mowbray section. The references in this section state clearly that all pork pies are eaten cold. There are two references in the Yorkshire section that say that sometimes pork pies are served hot in that county but nowhere does anything say that there is such a thing as a specific Yorkshire Pork pie. That pork pies can be served hot should be mentioned and that this is associated with Yorkshire is reasonable but the Yorkshire Pork Pie section is mis-named. I suggest we rename the section 'Pork Pies in Yorkshire' and correct 'often' to 'sometimes' in line with the references and remove statements that say there is such a thing as a Yorkshire Pork Pie OrewaTel ( talk) 08:56, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
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What's the white stuff called?
This article could do with expanding, like a history section —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.88.7 ( talk) 14:19, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
I see this has been in the article since at least February: "Fillings added to the pork include apples, pickled cucumbers or bacon." Apples, yes; bacon, I can believe; but surely "pickled cucumbers", as a filling added to the pork and baked in the pie, is a confusion with English (ie Branston-type) pickle, which is available as a ( Pork Farms) supermarket variant of the "normal" snack or picnic pork pie? I'm happy to be proved wrong, but it seems unlikely. Ghughesarch ( talk) 23:50, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
One would assume that, to qualify as a Melton Mowbray pork pie, not only would the pie have to be baked within the area in question, but the ingredients would have to be local as well. If you could bring in pork from anywhere and make the pies in the Melton area, doesn't this make a nonsense of protected status? After all, surely the local farming and stock-rearing conditions contribute no less to the quality of the finished product than the fact of where it's made? Yet I noticed something odd on a Melton Mowbray pork pie sold at ASDA. The main label claims that it was made within the Melton Mowbray protected area, but the closure label, in extremely small print, states "made in the UK, pork from the EU." This may well comply with the letter of the regulations, but is very far, surely, from the spirit of them. Pavel ( talk) 12:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Should the article not define, or at least reference, the designated area for the PDO? ratarsed ( talk) 11:53, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
I think the description of how the "long egg" in a Gala Pie is made is wholly fanciful and may have been intended as a joke. As far as I am aware the eggs are just boiled and lined up inside the pie before it is baked (online recipes seem to back this up). The original reference for this seems to be a jokey comment. Deicide ( talk) 21:50, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
In my opinion, the 'External image' link should be removed from the 'Variations' tab in the article and moved to the 'External links' section of the article. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 16:26, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
An editor keeps adding that Yorkshire Pork pies are served hot to the Melton Mowbray section. The references in this section state clearly that all pork pies are eaten cold. There are two references in the Yorkshire section that say that sometimes pork pies are served hot in that county but nowhere does anything say that there is such a thing as a specific Yorkshire Pork pie. That pork pies can be served hot should be mentioned and that this is associated with Yorkshire is reasonable but the Yorkshire Pork Pie section is mis-named. I suggest we rename the section 'Pork Pies in Yorkshire' and correct 'often' to 'sometimes' in line with the references and remove statements that say there is such a thing as a Yorkshire Pork Pie OrewaTel ( talk) 08:56, 10 April 2022 (UTC)