The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Taihape

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Hello and welcome to the Virtual Rugby Pub, a place where you can come in for a sly beverage and discuss whatever's on your mind, or just eavesdrop on the regulars if you fancy a break from all the rugby chat.

The Pub has made its way to Taihape - The Gumboot Capital of the World!

http://www.taihape.co.nz/

We also welcome our newest member, Amber ...who no doubt will have an interest in those boots!

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of Aaron Smith, Topsy Ojo, Jason Shoemark, Tom Rees, Gonzalo Garcia, Leo the Leinster Lion and Lalakai Foketi up on the wall.



Last Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t35494p1050-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-oxford

PEEJ! When you was in Cardiff did you have a Claaark's Pie? They can be eaten by anyone, not just clerks...

A Clark's pie...
http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/500506337/Clarks_Pie_cut_bigger.jpg

No I did not Cari, but before you go any further, answer this;

Does the aforementioned Clark's pie have both a case and a lid?

Of course it does...it's a pie innit?

Indeed Cari, that is a fine looking pie.

Accompanied by the staple bread and butter, blydi lovely.

pie
1    [pahy] Show IPA

noun
1.
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust: apple pie; meat pie.

2.
a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like: chocolate cream pie.

3.
a total or whole that can be divided: They want a bigger part of the profit pie.

4.
an activity or affair: He has his finger in the political pie too.

5.
pizza.





Mind you? 5?????

So next time you come to the 'Diff, we'll go down Caroline Street (Chippy Lane) and have a Clark's Pie from Dots NOM! NOM! NOM!

The best pie I had at any sports ground was the steak pie at Firhill the season before last. Not the biggest pie, but it was full of proper chunks of steak, rather than a few lumps of dubious meat and (mostly) gravy.

Pizza? BLYDI PIZZA!!!

Mad, the world's gone mad... where did I put that pitchfork?

Cari, you have yourself a date, right there. I'll put me doggy dentures in for that one.

MrsP that just shows how inaccurate Wiki is. I've never ever looked at a pizza and thought it was a pie...and I know Dean Martin sang

"When the moon hits your eye, lika biga pizza pie..." in the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69O4PXzAQ5Y

'Ound - have you eaten a Clark's pie with your Brains too?

Cari wrote:MrsP that just shows how inaccurate Wiki is. I've never ever looked at a pizza and thought it was a pie...and I know Dean Martin sang

"When the moon hits your eye, lika biga pizza pie..." in the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69O4PXzAQ5Y

Clearly he wasn't singing that at PJ!

MrsP wrote:pie
1    [pahy] Show IPA

noun
1.
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust: apple pie; meat pie.

2.
a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like: chocolate cream pie.

3.
a total or whole that can be divided: They want a bigger part of the profit pie.

4.
an activity or affair: He has his finger in the political pie too.

5.
pizza.





Mind you? 5?????

Yeah, I got it now MrsP, you're offering this up as some sort of corroborating evidence to the argument that pies don't have to have a lid to be a pie?

And this is from some publication that classifies pizza as a pie... and this is in some way to be considered an authority on the subject?

I don't think so.

So, is it a pie if it doesn't have pastry base and sides but does have a pastry lid?

You really want to be broadening those horizons PJ?

Think of all the wonderous offerings you are rejecting out of hand because of your frankly sectarian point of view.

I'm pretty sure it is the americans who call their pizzas pies sometimes.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:I'm pretty sure it is the americans who call their pizzas pies sometimes.

Oh that explains it...ask Gibbo about Americanisms and the Americanisation of our language...yadda yadda...

Anyhoo, I'm off to bed shortly. Well I am out the door by half six in the morning...

MrsP wrote:So, is it a pie if it doesn't have pastry base and sides but does have a pastry lid?

You really want to be broadening those horizons PJ?

Think of all the wonderous offerings you are rejecting out of hand because of your frankly sectarian point of view.

No case AND lid = no pie. "NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!

Night Cari!

Off to make the packed lunches myself.

Will I give them Shepherds Pie for lunch with Lemon Meringue Pie for a wee treat?

MrsP wrote:Did you just call me a silly silly woman??????

And, would you ever mind not offering my husband as a Tommy substitute!!!!!

Mrs P as if!! Did you not see the text highlighted in bold? A direct reference to the woman beside you.

<goesawaymutteringMrsPisasillywomanfornotunderstandingme>

Theres me think Mr P is a Tommy lookalike

Cari wrote:'Ound - have you eaten a Clark's pie with your Brains too?

Nope, not had the pleasure of a Clark's. Before hitting the train home on the Sunday after last years HC final, I did bag two Welsh lamb and redcurrant pasties from the specialist pie/pasty shop just across the road from The Prince of Wales.

Yum!

Same here, though I have to leave the house at 10 to 6. For the rest of the week.

Cari wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:I'm pretty sure it is the americans who call their pizzas pies sometimes.

Oh that explains it...ask Gibbo about Americanisms and the Americanisation of our language...yadda yadda...

Anyhoo, I'm off to bed shortly. Well I am out the door by half six in the morning...

G'night Cari, Rory.

PJHolybloke wrote:Shepherd's Pie is neither made of, nor eaten exclusively by, Shepherds.

Cottage Pie is neither made of, nor eaten exclusively in, Cottages.

These are ersatz pies, they are clearly misnomers in every sense, they cannot and must not be trusted.

Pasties are made from a single piece of pastry folded over.

Pies have a case and they have a lid, anything that does not have BOTH and yet claims to be a pie, should be hunted down with torches and pitchforks and denounced as a monster of Frankenstein.

That is all.

Evening pub.

And to think... I used love, admire and respect the very essence of ya. Unreal

I was soo wrong! How could I be soo wrong?

That's it. We are totally and utterly incompatible. I want out Ted.

And I want me Kylie records back as well btw. Just sayin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPc18SG6uA

Rava wrote:

MrsP wrote:Did you just call me a silly silly woman??????

And, would you ever mind not offering my husband as a Tommy substitute!!!!!

Mrs P as if!! Did you not see the text highlighted in bold? A direct reference to the woman beside you.

<goesawaymutteringMrsPisasillywomanfornotunderstandingme>

Theres me think Mr P is a Tommy lookalike

Aye I did!

But I also saw it before you added that bit as a "better cover my..." after thought!

One for PJ, a reason to travel to Falcons home games http://www.gourmetpie.co.uk/

Hi Rava, will be popping to the Post Office this week bud - things have been a bit hectic for the last 8/9 days and I just haven't had the chance.

Got to send one to Biltong too so I'll get them both packed and posted before the weekend.

MrsP wrote:So, is it a pie if it doesn't have pastry base and sides but does have a pastry lid?

You really want to be broadening those horizons PJ?

Think of all the wonderous offerings you are rejecting out of hand because of your frankly sectarian point of view.

That's genius!

PJ I'm glad you chose our side in this (Me and Hoog) You have the strong argumentative streak that we needed.

Oh and a fine judge of a pie as well I might add

PJHolybloke wrote:Hi Rava, will be popping to the Post Office this week bud - things have been a bit hectic for the last 8/9 days and I just haven't had the chance.

Got to send one to Biltong too so I'll get them both packed and posted before the weekend.

Packed totally in pastry we assume?

MrsP wrote:So, is it a pie if it doesn't have pastry base and sides but does have a pastry lid?

You really want to be broadening those horizons PJ?

Think of all the wonderous offerings you are rejecting out of hand because of your frankly sectarian point of view.

NO NO NO! That is the whole argument here. That is a stew with a lid!!

Sooooooo narrowminded!

Gibson wrote:

MrsP wrote:So, is it a pie if it doesn't have pastry base and sides but does have a pastry lid?

You really want to be broadening those horizons PJ?

Think of all the wonderous offerings you are rejecting out of hand because of your frankly sectarian point of view.

That's genius!

Now I think you're getting the wrong end of the stick here, at no stage did I suggest I didn't like Cottage Pie (for example), but merely that I do not, under any circumstances consider it to be a pie, it's a fake, an imposter, a wannabee, it's just a name without substance - much like Buffalo Wings.

sure if it tastes nice and is good food, what does it matter?

My brain is very tired this evening, written lots, reminded myself how to use my brain :sleep:

Pete C (Kiwireddevil) wrote:One for PJ, a reason to travel to Falcons home games http://www.gourmetpie.co.uk/

Pete, forget the Falcons mate, that there's reason enough to travel to New Zealand, that Steak and Cheese filling would be good enough on it's own.

rugbydreamer wrote:sure if it tastes nice and is good food, what does it matter?

Hear, hear!


See Dreamer, that's why it's men who start all the wars!

MrsP wrote:

rugbydreamer wrote:sure if it tastes nice and is good food, what does it matter?

Hear, hear!


See Dreamer, that's why it's men who start all the wars!

HERETIC!

PJHolybloke wrote:

Pete C (Kiwireddevil) wrote:One for PJ, a reason to travel to Falcons home games http://www.gourmetpie.co.uk/

Pete, forget the Falcons mate, that there's reason enough to travel to New Zealand, that Steak and Cheese filling would be good enough on it's own.

But but but......surely it wouldn't be a pie then?

PJHolybloke wrote:

Pete C (Kiwireddevil) wrote:One for PJ, a reason to travel to Falcons home games http://www.gourmetpie.co.uk/

Pete, forget the Falcons mate, that there's reason enough to travel to New Zealand, that Steak and Cheese filling would be good enough on it's own.

Steak and cheese, a New Zealand classic (in NZ we don't really do kebab shops, instead you take your chances with a pie out of the pie warmer at a 24 hour service station).

Right, I've just finished preparing a Powerpoint Presentation on Asbestos Awareness.
Horrible subject but the masses have to be educated.

See you guys later.

Night Rava!

Gibbo,


I was looking at booking tickets for asm at home this week. I'll get yours as we need to sit together as were the six like

MrsP wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:

Pete C (Kiwireddevil) wrote:One for PJ, a reason to travel to Falcons home games http://www.gourmetpie.co.uk/

Pete, forget the Falcons mate, that there's reason enough to travel to New Zealand, that Steak and Cheese filling would be good enough on it's own.

But but but......surely it wouldn't be a pie then?

Pedant. I actually meant the pie with the steak and cheese filling, would be good enough on it's own, the other's would be the cherries on top... of the pie.

How is it you "take your chances" then Pete? Do you not know what flavour the pies are till you bite, or are some better quality than others?

Rava, good work fella. It's a terrible killer, two of my mates have lost their dads in the last 12 months to it, both sparkies.

PJHolybloke wrote:

MrsP wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:

Pete C (Kiwireddevil) wrote:One for PJ, a reason to travel to Falcons home games http://www.gourmetpie.co.uk/

Pete, forget the Falcons mate, that there's reason enough to travel to New Zealand, that Steak and Cheese filling would be good enough on it's own.

But but but......surely it wouldn't be a pie then?

Pedant. I actually meant the pie with the steak and cheese filling, would be good enough on it's own, the other's would be the cherries on top... of the pie.

How is it you "take your chances" then Pete? Do you not know what flavour the pies are till you bite, or are some better quality than others?

Rava, good work fella. It's a terrible killer, two of my mates have lost their dads in the last 12 months to it, both sparkies.

Service station pies are frequently poor quality. And have often been in the pie warmer a long time. Depending on the pie warmer they may be cold in the middle, or (worse) tongue-blisteringly hot. But after a lot of lager ...

PS, decent quality pies are sold in NZ servo's. But by 3am stocks tend to run a bit low.

Understood, looks like there could be a gap in the market there for a late night gourmet pie emporium then Pete.

Yes! "Pies Am We" is born.

PJHolybloke wrote:Understood, looks like there could be a gap in the market there for a late night gourmet pie emporium then Pete.

Yes! "Pies Am We" is born.

I dunno PJ, can you imagine drunks in Engerlund paying more for a gourmet kebab at 3am.

There is talk of Georgie Pie (an NZ fast food chain that went broke in the mid 90s) being revived via an alternate menu at McDonalds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgie_Pie

Fancy there being a dew Drop Inn in Taihape..

PJ currently there are around 5000 deaths per year in the UK attributed to asbestos. That figure continues to rise and is expected to peak around 10,000 per year by 2020. Those statistics are quite frightening given that asbestos was finally banned in 1999.

Cari wrote:So next time you come to the 'Diff, we'll go down Caroline Street (Chippy Lane) and have a Clark's Pie from Dots NOM! NOM! NOM!

Surely you'd treat him to charlestons??!!

aucklandlaurie wrote: Fancy there being a dew Drop Inn in Taihape..

The word on the Gum-boots got out Auck. We'll go anywhere for quality us.