meatpie

plural meatpies

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of meat pie.

   “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, 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

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   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.

   1965, Stephen Longstreet, War in the Golden Weather, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, pages 11 and 18

   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.

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

   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).

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

   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.

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

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