A fine example of British Cuisine at its best - the Pie Butty.

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My friend Gill is a market stallholder and does a couple of weekly markets, one of them in the town of Wigan. Whilst most non-Brits probably haven't heard of Wigan, and those who have probably know it for George Orwell's book 'The Road to Wigan Pier', Wigan is famous for something else: Pie Eating. People from Wigan are referred to locally as 'Pie Eaters'. Allegedly - well according to Wikipedia - the name dates back to the General Strike of 1926 when striking workers were starved into returning to work, thereby 'eating humble pie'. Whether that's true or not, they are famous now for their love of a good pie. Gill was telling me that she saw a guy at the market take a large white bread roll, slather it in butter and then slap a whole meat pie between the two parts of the roll creating a 'pie butty'. Actually she claims when he finished, he had a second. Apparently there is no connection between Wigan and the popular football song "Who ate all the pies?", which is usually sung when a player, referee, linesman or other official is a bit on the chubby side.