Meatpie

I say, do you know the women of Rubens, all pretty arse and tit and like meatpies, tasty on the eye? […] meatpie shops, colored and gilded the figureheads of ships in the harbor, among them H.M.S. Tiger and H.M.S. Promethean.

And as it was too late to refuse, Morgan followed Gobble's back into the wash of tobacco smoke, the smell of freshly-baked meatpies and the roar of voices. […] "The doctor? What doctor?" asked Morgan as he grabbed a meatpie and started pushing it into his mouth. […] Flesherton Costick half took the form of a king-sized chamberpot, pure-white and porcelain; and hard by was Arthur, divided between himself and a pink meatpie engulfed in shimmering silver foil.

The way in which the comparison is posed seems very similar to the conundrums or riddles so loved by readers of the time, Quevedo inviting us to seek out the ties between what would seem impossible to compare (meatpies and old women). […] the solution is based on Quevedo’s own estimation of the composition of the meatpies of his day (one which appears constantly throughout his works), and thus turns the conceit into an example of his technique which deals blows in two directions simultaneously. Meatpies are by definition dirty and filled with more bones than meat (and if they do have meat, it is more often from cats or corpses of executed criminals).

Despite the claims of a longer, healthier life by proponents of the diet popularized by Nathan Pritikin, many Natchitoches residents have refused to give up a popular delicacy, the famous meatpie. But Saturday, during the 54th annual Natchitoches Christmas Festival, “Project Life” coordinator C.B. “Lum” Ellis will unveil a “Pritikin meatpie.” […] Ellis Tuesday said the new meatpie will be slightly different from the ones already famous throughout the state. Unlike the traditional meatpie, which is made of ground pork and beef, Ellis said the new recipe will be made of ingredients approved under the rules of the Pritikin diet plan.

[…] Sweeney Todd is based on an 1847 grisly melodrama about the true story of a London barber who goes mad as a result of his quest for revenge, with his victims winding up in meatpies. […] The audience laughs and laughs as the vengeful barber slits each throat, then drops the bodies through a trap door in the floor to the meatpie shop below, where the raunchy Mrs. Lovett (Angela Lansbury), who sees an easy buck in cannibalism, converts this cheap source of meat into her luscious pies. […] Or you may indulge in an intellectual analysis of the clever Brechtian dramatic techniques or the analogy between the oven and meatpies to the crematoria and lampshades of another holocaust the world ignored.

“Yeah, but it was the meatpie, the belyashik, that was to blame,” said rumpled-hat, […] And these pests are shouting: “Hot meatpies. Get’em while they’re hot. Thirty-eight kopeks a pair.”

THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT have Mike Murchison crimping the edges of superior meatpies instead of making executive decisions for Woodward’s Ltd. can be found in Somerset Maugham’s story about the verger of St. Peter’s. […] But it made Murchison strike out on a path that he had considered a few times, but had lacked the push to follow. The path of the perfect meatpie. […] Catering is largely a weekend job and, to fill the rest of the week, Murchison began making meatpies, Cornish pasties and quiches. And if quality counts, Murchison may be to meatpies what the late Nat Bailey was to hamburgers.

“[…] You and my brother both are mighty wizards, […] When it comes suppertime at sea, why not say, Meatpie! and the meatpie appears, and you eat it?” “Well, we could do so. But we don’t much wish to eat our words, as they say. Meatpie! is only a word, after all. . . . We can make it odorous, and savorous, and even filling, but it remains a word. It fools the stomach and gives no strength to the hungry man.” […] A magic meatpie is a work whose shape, flavor, and taste are illusion. […] In a talk about magic and meatpies, Ged explains many things to Vetch’s sister, Yarrow. Explain why a magic meatpie provides no nourishment, according to Ged.