pukka pies

[timothy34]

why are pukka pies so called?

[paddywak]

Pukka was old army slang for something that was very good, so perhaps very good pies

[mazie]

here's a link timothy

http://www.pukkapies.co.uk/about-us.php

[sara3]

has this been troubling you since August 2010?

[joggerjayne]

I think it was a typo for "puker"

[jno]

it's an old Hindi word that was picked up by Brits during the raj. It originally meant 'cooked', so that's appropriate, but in modern English it mostly means something like 'authentic'.

[sunny-dave]

^ wot JJ said ^

.... the pukka pies curry pasty is an extraordinary diarrhoeic yellow colour and even after several pints of anaesthetic is virtually inedible.

[joggerjayne]

Dave ...

So you don't work in the Marketing Dept at Pukka Pies then !

he he

[scotman]

Agree about the definition. Chambers says that the derivation is from the Hindi word meaning cooked or ripe. We don't get such delicacies up here so I cannot comment on how they taste.

[annadomino]

In our chippies round here, for pukka, read pop in microwave....yukkkkkkk

[joggerjayne]

Chip shop pies ... wrong on every level.

[boxtops]

They go in the microwave in the plastic bag, so they come out all soggy, anything but pukka.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Everytime we go to see my daughter in Birmingham we take a supply of Hollands pies because they only seem to sell pukka pies down there and they are soooo awwwfull. Yuk