How to pronounce Pie and mash

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /paɪ ən mæʃ/. In plain English letters that is PIE un MASH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Pie and mash?

Pie and mash is a main dish of the United Kingdom. Where it comes from: London. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are beef, potato and wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Pie and mash comes from

Pie and mash is one of 56 signature dishes of the United Kingdom on this map. See all dishes from London.

• Fish and chips · Main dish · London and Lancashire

  Fish and chips comes from two traditions that met in the 19th century: fried fish brought to London by Jewish immigrants from Portugal and Spain, and fried potatoes sold in the industrial north.

• Full English breakfast · Main dish · England

  The full English breakfast grew from the large breakfasts of the country house in the Victorian era, when gentry showed off the produce of their estates.

• Cornish pasty · Snack · Cornwall

  The Cornish pasty is a half-moon of shortcrust pastry filled with diced beef, potato, swede and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, crimped along one side and baked.

• Pease pudding · Main dish · North East England

  Pease pudding is a thick, pale yellow purée of split peas boiled with water, salt and spices, often in the same pot as a bacon or ham joint.

• Singing hinny singin' hinny · Bread & pastry · Northumberland

  A singing hinny is a griddle cake from Northumberland and the coal-mining towns of the North East.

• Parmo · Street food · Teesside

  The parmo, or Teesside Parmesan, is the late-night takeaway of Middlesbrough: a flattened chicken or pork cutlet in breadcrumbs, deep-fried and covered with white béchamel sauce and melted cheese, usually Cheddar, served with chips.

Food of the United Kingdom

Dishes like Pie and mash in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Pie and mash:

• Mitraillette · Street food · Brussels, Belgium

  A mitraillette, French for "submachine gun", is a Belgian sandwich made from half a baguette filled with fried meat, such as a sausage, burger or steak, then piled with chips and covered with sauce, mayonnaise, andalouse, garlic, béarnaise or others, sometimes with lettuce, tomato, grated carrot or cheese.

• Gaisburger Marsch · Soup & stew · Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg), Germany

  Gaisburger Marsch is a Swabian beef stew named after Gaisburg, now a district of Stuttgart.

• Echpochmak өчпочмак · Street food · Tatarstan, Russia

  Echpochmak, whose Tatar name means triangle, is a national dish of the Tatars and Bashkirs: a triangular baked pastry filled with chopped meat, onion and potatoes.

• Salteña · Street food · La Paz, Bolivia

  A salteña is a baked pastry, slightly sweet and crisp outside, filled with a juicy stew of beef or chicken, potato, peas, olives, raisins, egg and ají chilli.