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AlternativeWay4729 t1_j4axxoe wrote

I'm a shepherd. That means I farm sheep. It's not shepherd's pie unless it uses ground lamb or mutton. It's cottage pie. Look it up, people. Be good to your local shepherd.

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marrymejojo OP t1_j4c49h9 wrote

Except no one here calls it that. You know how in some places people call the same things by different names? Yeah it's kind of like that. You are not going to get an entire region of the world to start calling something different.

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AlternativeWay4729 t1_j4c60bn wrote

No lamb for you, then!

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marrymejojo OP t1_j4cndwp wrote

I do like lamb though. I've been thinking about the logic a but more and I guess my question would be why is it called cottage pie then. Wouldn't it be called like ranchers pie? Or cattle herders pie?

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AlternativeWay4729 t1_j4ctpkq wrote

I would guess because "cottage" and the Anglo-Scots root "cottar" or "commoner" refer to the old British peasantry. So it's "commoner's pie" and was originally made with leftover roast beef.

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