Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 1

RIGHT!

Some important facts about pies AN EXPERT WRITES:
i: the word “pie” in the sense used on the show (rather than its maximal and correct sense) is apparently only traceable back to 1657, so this mediaeval “orchestra pie” must involve use of some dodgy dutch translation — actually the word “coffin” was the more common word for something larage and eatable contained in pastry (and coffin suggests something quite different and mediaeval and tyrannical was possibly going on)
ii: the crust of a pie was NOT routinely made to be eaten until think the 18th century — the pastry was basically the container when cooking and the packaging when handling, and fed at meal’s end (or earlier) to handy dogs, bears, cockatrices or like pets of the day

yes it comes from the greek for basket