I have read with shocked surprise¹ important news this evening from the Beverly Guardian from the town of that name in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England:
I READ that Beverley Town Council rate payment will be up by 25%, then it states where the cash will go. Whilst I endorse most of this list, I do take exception to one item, namely and I quote '£5,000 to kick start a new beer and pie festival'.Let us be clear: I contend that pie is the single greatest word in the English language and I will will take no objections on this point. So the real question is what else could £5,000 be better spend on in Beverly? From the photos available on wikipedia, the place looks like a cross between the two locked in time TV shows Thomas the Tank Engine and Heartbeat. Clearly pie and beer country. And the local area has a population of 29,210 which makes the festival expense a mere 17.1p per person. Nada.
Interestingly, a Google search for "beer and pie festival" shows that this Beverly plan and a rather dodgy sounding one in a Wigan pub (scroll way down) are all there are. Beverly could effectively become the beer and pie capital of the south central north east coast and only enhance its standing the best place to live in Britain, according to one study, because pie and beer, you know, improves everything.
At a time when the people of Market Rasen are abandoning food in the pub, along with their common sense, isn't it time to stand up for what is right - to stand up for beer and pie.
¹This story was sponsored by the Beer and Pie Manufacturers Association of Yorkshire.
Comments
Paul - February 15, 2008 5:47 am
"<i>I contend that pie is the single greatest word in the English language</i>" - What even greater than beer?
You can't beat 'a pie and a pint', a great combination. Add chips and mushy peas and you are in heaven!
Stonch - February 15, 2008 8:13 am
The pie is under threat from bastardised versions served in pubs. A bowl with a pastry lid is NOT a pie.
Alan - February 15, 2008 8:32 am
Hence the need for a festival - nay, a tent revival. I have often daydreamed of a pub, in fact, that only sold pies but had a variety of hundreds. Wasn't there a UK cop show in the '90s set in an all-pie restaurant?
Frank McDonald - February 15, 2008 7:07 pm
Where is the "Campaign for Real Pie" when you need them?
Evan Rail - February 19, 2008 5:46 pm
Weirdly, I've been to Beverley. Actually, they have one of the greatest pubs in the world there: Nellies, aka the White Horse Inn. It's still lit by gas lamps, they have the original (very uneven) stone floors and they serve Sam Smiths in good condition; if I remember correctly, they have snooker and darts in the back room. The place is just outstanding, worth a trip to Beverley all on its own.
If someone works in pies as well, I'm there.
martin bo petersen - March 12, 2008 3:41 pm
European Beer Festival
Copenhagen 12th - 14th of September 2008
There is less than 10 months to European Beer Festival in Copenhagen and the preparations are up and running.
At this website you will on a regular basis be able to follow the progress. As of now you can already find information about transport, ticket prices and more general info.
Alan - March 12, 2008 3:47 pm
How are the pies?
Mike Massey Jnr - August 13, 2008 11:58 am
i never thought that a pie festival would satisfy me as much as it did,
i really love pies ,i even have my own pie tube which i transport them lovely pies to work in.
looking forward to the next pie festival , mike massey !AMIMI