In message Dave Smith > wrote:

> MOMPEAGRAM wrote:
>>
>> Take the word apart Sheep herder pie.
>>
>> I see so many recipes for Shepherd's pie with beef or turkey and no lamb.
>>
>> Shepherds' Pie is not Shepherd's pie if it has beef in it. It's Cottage
>> pie then.
>>
>> Rant off
>
>
> Shepherds pie is a casserole with a layer of ground meat on the bottom,
> some vegetables and a layer of mashed potatoes on top. In Britain it is
> traditionally made with lamb or mutton. In North America is is more
> commonly made with beef. Only the British differentiate between Shepherds
> pie and Cottage pie. But then the British call chips crisps, and they call
> French fries chips.

Imagine the response of an 1870's cattle rancher as, when he's in the
middle of a hand of poker in the saloon and someone calls him a
'shepherd' Perhaps a colt shoved around the vicinity of the caller's
rectum? But then - what's in a word ;-)

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Don