This week is National Pie Week. Running until Sunday (March 12), it is all about celebrating everything great about the British pie.
Here at Nottinghamshire Live, we were keen to find out what pies our readers love as part of one of the most delicious weeks of the year. We asked the question on our Facebook page - and it attracted hundreds of mouth-watering comments.
Jan Evaniew said: "Minced beef and onion." Jan added that steak and ale pie was her second choice.
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Anne Murphy was one of many who commented: "Chicken and mushroom." Dave Windle responded: "I was working on a job in Worston and used to get lamb and mint pies from a butchers near Downhan - lovely!"
Jane Bassra replied: "My mum used to make the best meat and potato pie. So delicious."
Linda Field Palmer said: "Homemade mushroom and spinach." Egg, bacon and mushroom, chicken, ham and leek, and corned beef and potato were among other favourite pies mentioned.
A number of our readers clearly have a sweet tooth. Les Dubourg suggested: "Rhubarb and strawberry!"
Lin Whiteheart said: "You can't beat an apple pie." Sandy King added: "Blackcurrant or gooseberry."
And Bob Birch said: "All pies are good. It's just some are better than others."
According to the Crusty Pie Company, pies are said to have been invented by the ancient Romans sometime before 2000 B.C. The story goes that a recipe for chicken pie was written on a tablet in Sumer.
Another piece of evidence proving a long history of pies is to be found in the Valley of the Kings - Pharaoh Ramesses II's tomb to be precise. Pie cases get a mention in a 1st Century Roman cookbook called 'Apicius'.
What's your favourite type of pie? Let us know in the comments below
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