meat pie

meat pie
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My good friend Sheldon has been talking about starting up a chain of meat pie restaurants, and I kind of didn't get it until now. It seemed like he was just talking about fancy Hot Pockets, and who's going to invest in a Hot Pocket-based business plan?

Now that I've been to Eastern Europe, though, I totally get it. Apparently, everywhere else in the world has amazing meat pies. They're nothing like Hot Pockets, or those gross chicken pot pies they served in my grade school cafeteria. Maggie's pictured here eating "burek," the Bosnian meat pie, which is kind of a twisted up spiral of sausage and flaky pastry deliciousness. How is it that the US hasn't developed its own national meat pie? As Sheldon writes,

"The love of meat pies... its what brings us together as a global community. It is the lack of meat pies here in the US that is at the heart of our unwillingness to join that global brotherhood."

So sad, and so true!