Pies are very popular in Britain. Pies are a baked dish consisting of a filling such as chopped meat or fruit enclosed in or covered with pastry

Favourite's include

• Pork pie
  A pork pie consists of pork and pork jelly in a hot water crust pastry and is normally eaten cold.

• Steak and Kidney pie
  A traditional English dish consisting of a cooked mixture of chopped beef, kidneys, onions, mushrooms and beef stock. This mixture is placed in a pie or casserole dish, covered with a pastry crust and baked until crisp and brown.

• Cornish pastie / Cornish pasty
  A type of pie, originating in Cornwall, South West England. It is an oven-cooked pastry case traditionally filled with diced meat - nowadays beef mince (ground beef) or steak - potato, onion and swede . It has a semicircular shape, caused by folding a circular pastry sheet over the filling. One edge is crimped to form a seal.

World's Biggest Pie

Every now and then the villagers of Denby Dale, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire bake the world's biggest meat and potato pie

The first recorded making of a pie in the village was in 1788 to celebrate the recovery of King George III from mental illness. Since that time nine other pies have been baked, usually to coincide with a special event or to raise money for a local cause.