On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:03:39 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> 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.

Heaven's, Dave. You wouldn't know, you're Canadian!

Whoever it is that objects obviously also thinks there's only one
accent/dialect in the UK and everybody does everything *exactly* the
same way over there.

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