pork pie

Meaty British pastry

A pork pie is a British meat pie with seasoned pork encased in hot water crust pastry, typically eaten cold.

The raised sides give it a distinctive cylindrical shape.

In Cockney rhyming slang, pork pie (or porky) means lie: He's telling porkies.

food

crust

Hard outer layer

  • fillingMaterial placed within
  • gelatinCollagen-derived thickening protein
  • meatAnimal tissue for food

savory · picnic · snack · appetizer · delicacy · buffet · ham · bacon · sausage · pâté

hat

brim

Projecting edge or lip

  • crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
  • bandGroup playing music together
  • feltCompressed fiber textile

wool · fedora · trilby · headwear · millinery · vintage · retro · dapper · jazz · hipster

slang

lie

Deliberate falsehood

  • fibTrivial, harmless falsehood
  • rhymeMatching terminal sounds
  • untruthA false statement

British · slang · tall tale

Categories
Opposites
savory vs. sweet food

pork piefruit pie

apple pie · cherry pie · cream pie · custard tart · treacle tart

meat type

pork pievegetable pie

Pastry with plant filling

cheese pie · chicken pie · beef pie · lamb pie · fish pie

truth vs. lies (Cockney rhyming slang)

pork pietruth

Accordance with reality

honesty · gospel truth · fact · straight talk · candor

Family

pie, pork, pier, pastry, pies, porker, porky, porcine, porking

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G