"The best of all pies is a grouse-pie; the second a black-cock pie; the third a woodcock pie (with plenty of spices;) the fourth a chicken-pie (ditto.) As for a pigeon-pie, it is not worthy of a place upon any table, so long as there are chickens in the world. A rook-pie is a bad imitation of that bad article; and a beef-steak-pie is really abominable. A good pie is excellent when hot; but the test of a good pie is, "how does it eat cold?" — Apply this to the examples above cited, and you will find I am correct."
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William Maginn (alias "Odoherty"), "Maxims", pt. 3, no. 100, in Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 16, no. 92 (September 1824), p. 340
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