Thread: Barrymore Pie

The Sun Online - News: Pies and prejudice anyone?

A PUB sparked fury by serving a ‘Barrymore Pie’ — and describing it on the menu as: “Faggots swimming in gravy.”


Gay rights groups called for the dish to be scrapped at Mad O’Rourke’s Pie Factory.
Peter Tatchell, co-founder of Outrage! said: “This may have been intended as a joke but homophobia is not a subject of fun in the same way racism is not appropriate for a joke.”
Customer Karin Thompson dropped plans to eat at the pub after reading the menu and wrote to the owner to complain.
She stormed: “It is an offensive use of language — a cheap jibe that is not even funny.”
But defiant boss Peter Towler vowed to keep the crusty favourite on his menu at the pub in Tipton, West Mids.
The 47-year-old said: “It’s been on the menu six years during which time I have had hundreds of thousands of customers and not a single complaint.
“Why don’t these people worry about something important — like the National Health Service.
“These people say this is not funny but their behaviour is turning it into a joke. I am sorry that they are upset but I will not be bullied.”
Mr Towler added: “I will not bow to this pressure. I sell about 100 Barrymore Pies a week. I suppose I could change its name to Politically Correct Pie.”
Faggots are a traditional meatball dish particularly popular in the West Midlands.
A party at comic Michael Barrymore’s Essex home in 2001 ended with guest Stuart Lubbock, 31, being found dead in a swimming pool.