What will you be eating if you order an apple pie in a restaurant?

It can result very strange to hear this expression in a restaurant if you are a Spanish man but I tell you that the word “pie” in English doesn’t have the same meaning that in Spanish. We can find some tarts that have this name, because “pie” in English means “pastel”. Some examples of this dishes will be:

-Apple pie: a tart filling with apples.

-Shepherds, Chicken, Mushroom, Steak and Kidney pie: tarts filling with meat, mushrooms, steak and kidneys.

Don’t frighten if you hear this while you are having lunch, it’s a typical British tart and you shouldn’t relate its meaning with the Spanish one. Its smell and taste obviously is better thanthe Spanish “pie”.

You can read more about Shepherd’s pie in this page: http://eatshutup.blogspot.com/.

It’s an article written by Mª José Gómez Guerra.