Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone!

[Grey Fox]

Never heard of cottage pie before.

[PRC]

Shepard's Pie is with lamb.  Cottage Pie is with ground beef.

I've eaten a lot of shepherd's pie in my time, and 98% of the time it was made with beef.

That was Cottage Pie misrepresented as Shepard's Pie. 

[Barrister]

Shepard's Pie is with lamb.  Cottage Pie is with ground beef.

I've eaten a lot of shepherd's pie in my time, and 98% of the time it was made with beef.

That was Cottage Pie misrepresented as Shepard's Pie. 

A lot of those shepherd pie's were made by yours truly, with beef.  I misrepresented nothing.

[crazy canuck]

Shepard's Pie is with lamb.  Cottage Pie is with ground beef.

I've eaten a lot of shepherd's pie in my time, and 98% of the time it was made with beef.

That was Cottage Pie misrepresented as Shepard's Pie. 

A lot of those shepherd pie's were made by yours truly, with beef.  I misrepresented nothing.

A shepard tends sheep, not cows.

[Barrister]

A shepard tends sheep, not cows.

It's called shepherd's pie because it's eaten by shepherds regardless of whats in it.

And besides, this all started with discussing Paté chinois - which translates as Chinese Patsry.  The Chinese however have nothing to do with it.  Sometimes a name is just a name.

[crazy canuck]

A shepard tends sheep, not cows.

It's called shepherd's pie because it's eaten by shepherds regardless of whats in it.

Where was the shepard in the middle of sheep country going to find beef?  And why would he go to that expense when there is a bunch of the real ingredient right there?

[Admiral Yi]

Yeah, basically: ground beef, mashed potatoes and corn.

As Chinese as you can get.

[HVC]

I thought the proper term for beef was cottage pie?

[PRC]

I thought the proper term for beef was cottage pie?

It is. 

[Camerus]

I celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving in Jasper National Park.   

[viper37]

The Chinese however have nothing to do with it.  Sometimes a name is just a name.

but one possible explanation for the Chinese reference is that it was introduced to Canadian railway workers by Chinese cooks during the building of the North American railroads in the late 19th century.-Wikipedia.

[viper37]

My family's tradition is to have Ham on Thanksgiving. I did, before.

Ham is for Easter!  And fish for the Good Friday!

[Grey Fox]

Ham is for Easter, thanksgiving & New Year's day.

Turkey is for Xmas.

[viper37]

Ham is for Easter, thanksgiving & New Year's day.

Turkey is for Xmas.

Turkey is for New Year's day, here.  On Christmas, given we are many, we simply eat a cold buffet with some extras (tourtière, cocktail sausage&bacon)

[Barrister]

Huh.  I don't think we do anything special for New Years Day.

We'll probably make something nice on New Years Eve: and that's nice because it's one occasion where you don't have traditional meals, so you can play around with whatever you want.  Barbecueing steak (maybe also with lobster tails) comes up a few times.

But New Years Day you just stay in your pajamas and relax.