Skimming pies

[claymore]

The good ship Claymore was well provisioned for the journey north last week. Dear Heart had excelled herself and so there was food and drink aplenty. Mrs Muzz had similarly prepared evening meals and so by Friday, on taking stock of our supplies we discovered that we had a surfeit of Sainsbury's Melton Mowbray Pies.

Being a skipper who likes to impress, and Muzzy being an impressionable sort of a youth, I invited him to the poop where I gave him a most spectacular demonstration of the ancient art of Pie Skimming - as a graduate of Loughborough College and having achieved levels of sporting prowess in the heady days of yore, I recalled a past-time of my student days when we would play 'ducks and drakes' with those noble confectioneries originating from the delightful market town of Melton Mowbray.
Taking my favoured grip on the aforesaid pie, I launched it manfully over the starboard quarter and to my delight and Muzzy's amazement, it did 6 bounces before plunging to the murky depths of Jura Sound.
The challenge is on Men - 6 is the target to beat.

 

[Sixpence]

Does it have to be Sainsburys , I get mine from the local butcher and they're so full of meat they'd probably go down like a depth charge

 

[Bejasus]

surely a Fray Bentos sans tin should be able to beat this, if only for the superior aerodynamics. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[claymore]

I think the tinned article would put them into another category really - the lack of sogginess generated - which I think comes into play on or after the third bounce with the average untinned missile - would surely give them an extra 3 bounces or more?

It should be possible to create a PY - (pie yardstick) for this.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Good job yerman Para wisn't there, or he'd a put a hook innit and had yer noble vessel knee deep in Bonito afore ye could say Gracie Fields.

 

[jimi]

Och a scotch pie fae Rugby Park wi' a dollop o' HP oan it wid skim like yer Bruce Anka, oan ra ither haun ah'd hae a go wi' a Cumnock tart

 

[LymingtonPugwash]

Disgusting example to the young on this site! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Didn't your mother ever tell you that you shouldn't play with your food? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Bejasus]

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Och a scotch pie fae Rugby Park wi' a dollop o' HP oan it wid skim like yer Bruce Anka, oan ra ither haun ah'd hae a go wi' a Cumnock tart

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ah hud a go at a few o' thon tarts mony years ago. Widnae relish repeatin' the exshperience these days, they aw talk funny. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

yin o' thae hauf time pies though wid be anither story aw ra gither. Wi yon amount o' grease it could easily slide aw ra way tae Barra, nae bother. In fact, if ye launched it at Campbeltown it wid likely end up at ra Broomielaw. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif