Wot I had for dinner

[caddyman]

See, the thing is, we had too much sheptage¹ pie last night, so there was some left over. Sadly, not enough to make a meal in itself, so we improvised. We added a can of baked beans, some sliced mushrooms and sweetcorn, all stirred together and sprinkled with grated cheese.

Nice.

The thing is, that went in one side of the bowl quite separate from the remains of the sheptage pie. We microwaved it for five minutes and served. We call this tasty-yet repulsive-looking comestible slurry. Sadly, five minutes proved to be too little time to properly reheat it, so although served onto plates, we gave them each a further 2 minutes each.

Mmmm... white hot slurry.

How we laughed.

I shall deem the meal a success if neither of us develops stomach cramps over the next four hours or so.



¹A term of my own devising to cover the fact that cottage pie and shepherd's pie are interchangeable terms according to the dictionary. mathcathy asked, not unreasonably in my view,why two things should have two names which are then used interchangeably. I have no real answer, so I have created this nifty portmanteau word to cover them both. I did briefly consider "cotherd's pie" but that sounded vaguely rude to me.

Comments

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

I thought cottage pie was beef and shepherd's pie was mutton?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It would make sense, wouldn't it?

But according to the dictionary, the actual meat involved is immaterial and the terms are interchangeable!

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

The dictionary was not written by a cottager or a shepherd then! How dare they say meat is immaterial, what sort of a pie can you have with no meat? A vegetable pie that's what and that ain't cottage or shepherds.