meatpie

meatpie (countable and uncountable, plural meatpies)

1. Alternative form of meat pie.
   • 1965, Stephen Longstreet, War in the Golden Weather, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, pages 11 and 18:

     I say, do you know the women of Rubens, all pretty arse and tit and like meatpies, tasty on the eye? […] meatpie shops, colored and gilded the figureheads of ships in the harbor, among them H.M.S. Tiger and H.M.S. Promethean.

   • 1969 fall, Allan Shute, The Rain-Orb, Edmonton, Alta.: The University of Alberta, pages 84–85, 88, and 200:

     And as it was too late to refuse, Morgan followed Gobble's back into the wash of tobacco smoke, the smell of freshly-baked meatpies and the roar of voices. […] "The doctor? What doctor?" asked Morgan as he grabbed a meatpie and started pushing it into his mouth. […] Flesherton Costick half took the form of a king-sized chamberpot, pure-white and porcelain; and hard by was Arthur, divided between himself and a pink meatpie engulfed in shimmering silver foil.

   • 1978, James Iffland, Quevedo and the Grotesque, London: Tamesis Books Limited, →ISBN, page 121:

     The way in which the comparison is posed seems very similar to the conundrums or riddles so loved by readers of the time, Quevedo inviting us to seek out the ties between what would seem impossible to compare (meatpies and old women). […] the solution is based on Quevedo’s own estimation of the composition of the meatpies of his day (one which appears constantly throughout his works), and thus turns the conceit into an example of his technique which deals blows in two directions simultaneously. Meatpies are by definition dirty and filled with more bones than meat (and if they do have meat, it is more often from cats or corpses of executed criminals).

   • 1980 December 2, “Pritikin meatpies coming”, in The Times, Shreveport, La., page 24-A, column 2:

     Despite the claims of a longer, healthier life by proponents of the diet popularized by Nathan Pritikin, many Natchitoches residents have refused to give up a popular delicacy, the famous meatpie. But Saturday, during the 54th annual Natchitoches Christmas Festival, “Project Life” coordinator C.B. “Lum” Ellis will unveil a “Pritikin meatpie.” […] Ellis Tuesday said the new meatpie will be slightly different from the ones already famous throughout the state. Unlike the traditional meatpie, which is made of ground pork and beef, Ellis said the new recipe will be made of ingredients approved under the rules of the Pritikin diet plan.

   • 1981 March 25 – April 7, Estelle Jelinek, “Sweeney Todd”, in Grassroots, volume IX, number 18, Berkeley, Calif., page 10, columns 1–2:

     […] Sweeney Todd is based on an 1847 grisly melodrama about the true story of a London barber who goes mad as a result of his quest for revenge, with his victims winding up in meatpies. […] The audience laughs and laughs as the vengeful barber slits each throat, then drops the bodies through a trap door in the floor to the meatpie shop below, where the raunchy Mrs. Lovett (Angela Lansbury), who sees an easy buck in cannibalism, converts this cheap source of meat into her luscious pies. […] Or you may indulge in an intellectual analysis of the clever Brechtian dramatic techniques or the analogy between the oven and meatpies to the crematoria and lampshades of another holocaust the world ignored.

   • 1982, Yevgeny Popov, “A Baker’s Dozen of Stories”, in George Saunders, transl., edited by Vasily Aksyonov, Viktor Yerofeyev, Fazil Iskander, Andrei Bitov, and Yevgeny Popov, Metropol: Literary Almanac, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, pages 93 and 98:

     “Yeah, but it was the meatpie, the belyashik, that was to blame,” said rumpled-hat, […] And these pests are shouting: “Hot meatpies. Get’em while they’re hot. Thirty-eight kopeks a pair.”

   • 1982 June 14, Denny Boyd, “On the path of the perfect meatpie”, in The Vancouver Sun, volume 95, number 188, Vancouver, B.C., page A3, columns 1–2:

     THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT have Mike Murchison crimping the edges of superior meatpies instead of making executive decisions for Woodward’s Ltd. can be found in Somerset Maugham’s story about the verger of St. Peter’s. […] But it made Murchison strike out on a path that he had considered a few times, but had lacked the push to follow. The path of the perfect meatpie. […] Catering is largely a weekend job and, to fill the rest of the week, Murchison began making meatpies, Cornish pasties and quiches. And if quality counts, Murchison may be to meatpies what the late Nat Bailey was to hamburgers.

   • 1989, Elements of Literature, First Course, Annotated Teacher’s Edition, Austin, Tex.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., →ISBN, pages 606 and 615:

     “[…] You and my brother both are mighty wizards, […] When it comes suppertime at sea, why not say, Meatpie! and the meatpie appears, and you eat it?” “Well, we could do so. But we don’t much wish to eat our words, as they say. Meatpie! is only a word, after all. . . . We can make it odorous, and savorous, and even filling, but it remains a word. It fools the stomach and gives no strength to the hungry man.” […] A magic meatpie is a work whose shape, flavor, and taste are illusion. […] In a talk about magic and meatpies, Ged explains many things to Vetch’s sister, Yarrow. Explain why a magic meatpie provides no nourishment, according to Ged.

   • 1998, P. F. Chisholm (pseudonym; Patricia Finney), A Plague of Angels (A Sir Robert Carey Mystery), Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press, published 2000, →ISBN, pages 44–45 and 133:

     He stopped at the side door of the church, unable to bear the thought of entering the high solemnity of the place with its faded paintings too high up to be whitewashed and the human trash prancing to and fro nibbling meatpies beneath the hard-faced old-fashioned angels. […] Papers covered the elderly rushes on the floor, piled up in drifts and held down with leather bottles, plates, rock-hard lumps of bread and, in one instance, a withered half of a meatpie; […]

   • 1998, Katherine Greyle, Oracle: The Prophesy Fulfilled, Zephyr Cove, Nev.: LionHearted Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, pages 72 and 74:

     “Please. I’m starved.” Her gaze followed the man with the meatpies while she inhaled deeply, trying to hold onto the heavenly scent. […] “I find myself ravenous for meatpie.”

   • 1999, Howard Hunt, The Bishop, Milsons Point, N.S.W.: Random House Australia Pty Ltd, →ISBN, page 188:

     I made a face and shrugged, handing him the meatpie tins. ‘Here’s the meatpie.’ […] I zoned out, trying to upload my Big Elf information, wanting to get the news out only slightly less than I wanted to heat up some meatpie, and I fumbled for the words and started at the Frey Bentos tins until the bishop caught my eye and got the message. […] We cracked the oven and cooked a meatpie each, and the bishop’s enthusiasm was well founded.

   • 2003, Judith A. Lansdowne, Just in Time, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, pages 20, 40, and 88:

     The caretaker would return soon, bringing with him not merely Dempsey’s trunk, but hopefully a meatpie or two, courtesy of Mrs. Langton. […] He left the dog behind him in the kitchen once more, feasting on a meatpie of its own, and, candlestick in hand, he rambled through every ground-floor room of the rectory looking for evidence of flour dust. […] Langton was waiting there, along with our meatpies, but he departed once he saw that ghost.

   • 2007, Alexis Rhae, Thief of the Gallows, Bloomington, Ind., Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 46–47:

     The generous Genellsteens fed Avery a dinner of meatpies and buttered bread. […] Avery removed a meatpie and a flask of wine from his saddlebag and plopped down to eat it.

   • 2015 April 30, “Bridal shower honors Erin Layne Melancon”, in The Rayne Acadian-Tribune, 120th year, number 28, Rayne, La., page 7, columns 2–3:

     The buffet-style tables consisted of a variety of dishes, including crab and corn chowder, meatpies, lump crab cakes, seafood crepes, seafood stuffed mushrooms, pecan smoked pork loin, Italian meatballs, grilled chicken in herb sauce over penne pasta, shrimp brochettes, and beverages.

   • 2018 December 6, Leigh Guidry, “Take the back roads: Fits and fireworks: An excursion along Cane River brings perfect moments and tough travel”, in The Times, volume 148, number 9, Shreveport, La., page 10A, column 3:

     There was live music, hot cocoa, giant corndogs and, of course, meatpies.

   • 2021 August 8, Bill Keveney, “‘Reservation Dogs’ brings light, laughs in tale of Indigenous teens”, in Asheville Citizen Times, Asheville, N.C., page 2D, columns 2–3:

     Indigenous teens Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs), from left, and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) sell meatpies outside a health clinic as police officer Big (Zahn McLarnon) looks on in the FX on Hulu comedy, “Reservation Dogs.”