On 05/08/2013 7:10 AM, Helpful person wrote:
> For a group that thinks nothing in claiming shepherd's pie can be
> made with beef and refuses to acknowledge the ingredients of cottage
> pie you sure get bent out of shape over regional accents.

My paternal grandmother was born and raised in England and she made
Shepherd's pie with beef. My maternal grandmother had mostly Scottish
and Irish ancestry and her Shepherds pie was made with beef. Apparently
the terms Shepherds Pie and Cottage pie are interchangeable ant it is
only recently that some people started differentiating it. But, I only
grew up Shepherds Pie (with beef) almost every week, so what would I know.