• JoBo@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    This is not like those other things.

    We have shepherd’s pie (lamb) and cottage pie (beef) and fisherman’s pie (fish). They’re all constructed in much the same way but the name refers to the contents.

    It’s just a misunderstanding and it’s not important but there is a real non-obsolete reason these dishes have the names they have.

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      8 months ago

      That’s absolutely fair, I was really more responding to the biscuits thing, tone of “you didn’t know what you were making,” and generally prescriptivist vibe.