Pies were a common banquet item, with the crust serving primarily as a container, rather than as food itself, and it was not until the very end of the Late Middle Ages that the shortcrust pie was developed.

In addition, some traditional Greek foods, especially souvlaki, gyros, pita such as tyropita and spanakopita ( respectively, cheese and spinach pie ) are often served in fast food style.

Many food items are wrapped in Filo pastry, either in bite-size triangles or in large sheets: kotopita ( chicken ), spanakotyropita ( spinach and cheese ), chortopita ( greens ), kreatopita ( meat pie, using minced meat ), etc.

" Pub grub " expanded to include British food items such as steak and ale pie, shepherd's pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, Sunday roast, ploughman's lunch, and pasties.

The most characteristic Yankee food was pie ; Yankee author Harriet Beecher Stowe in her novel Oldtown Folks celebrated the social traditions surrounding the Yankee pie.

British traditions persist to varying degrees in domestic cooking and the takeaway food sector, with roast dinners, the Australian meat pie and fish and chips remaining popular, but there are also new elements featured in these foods.

While well known to Australian expats, the meat pie is becoming popular in the USA, with food chain Pie Face opening its first chain in New York in 2011.

The meat pie and sausage rolls are take-away food items, and there are also gourmet pies.

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management contains recipes for roast pigeon and pigeon pie, a popular inexpensive food in Victorian industrial Britain.

The modern usage in Scotland is Scottish or Scots, where the word " Scotch " is only applied to specific products, usually food or drink, such as Scotch whisky, Scotch pie, Scotch broth, Scotch tape, or Scotch eggs, and " Scotch " if applied to people is widely considered pejorative, reflecting old Anglo-Scottish antagonisms.

" Pub grub " expanded to include British food items such as steak and ale pie, steak and kidney pudding, shepherd's pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, Sunday roast, ploughman's lunch, and pasties.

The Cornish pasty is an excellent adaptation of the pie to a working man's daily food needs.

The first reference to " pyes " as food items appeared in England ( in a Latin context ) as early as the 12th century, but no unequivocal reference to the item with which the article is concerned is attested until the 14th century ( Oxford English Dictionary sb pie ).

Meringue can be used as the basis for various other desserts including angel food cake, pavlova, Baked Alaska, Queen of Puddings, Key lime pie, Eton mess and lemon meringue pie.

This celebration includes craft sales, music, food stands, games, and entertainment, and various types of pie.

* Bakllasarëm-A traditional food prepared in Kosovo and Albania, its layered pie also known as " pite " or " pita " ( Byrek ) without anything inside, which is covered with yoghurt and garlic, and then heated again.

* ' Georgie porgie pudding and pie ' ( 2008 ) The first detailed investigation into the state of food fed to young children attending nurseries in England and Wales.

East End of London favourites such as pie and mash are available alongside Chinese and Indian food outlets.

The savoury pie had long been a traditional way of preserving food, as well as in its smaller handsized form a transportable meal, protected from dirt by its cold pastry crust.

Many of them found themselves homeless and unable to feed themselves or their families so food and pie manufacturers would donate their ' left-overs ' to soup-kitchens, who would then add a pie to a bowl of soup.