On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:48:56 -0500, James Silverton
> wrote:

> On 2/3/2015 1:35 PM, sf wrote:
> >
> > FYI: A poster in one of my FB cooking groups just mentioned "corned
> > beef shepherd's pie". Not cottage pie, shepherds pie. Lives in
> > Yorkshire, England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skelmanthorpe
> >
> My apologies to those who feel a need for universal precision in names
> but I have never used the term "cottage pie" and any one-pot meat and
> vegetable stew topped with a mashed potato crust browned in the oven is
> "Shepherd's Pie" to me. The meat can be chicken; corned beef is unusual
> but I'm sure I've had it made with British-style canned "bully beef".

I am tired of certain posters insisting we're wrong - especially when
it turns out that people over there call shepherd's pie even if it
doesn't contain lamb.

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