Talk:Rappie pie

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I actually looked this up as they're now selling 'rappie pie' at our local grocery store and I had no idea what it was (despite being a lifelong Nova Scotian). Not from the French part of the province - the pies are made down in Argyle. Anyway, aside from being interested to try this dish, I have to take issue with the fact that 'harsh rocky soil' is good for growing potatoes as it is not. Also, the 18th century Acadians didn't grow potatoes as they had a taboo against them (or so I've been told at numerous Acadian historic sites here in the province), something to do with Catholic doctrine of the day. At Louisbourg they are at pains to tell you the fortress was supplied with quantities of rice as potatoes were forbidden. I'd be interested to find out if anyone knows a bit more about this change of attitude toward the potato. --Mf135gas (talk) 13:03, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Removes the starch?
Quoting the start of this article: "It is a casserole-like dish traditionally formed by grating potatoes, then squeezing them through cheesecloth. This removes the starch."

I don't think "removes the starch" is correct.

The article Potato starch describes briefly how starch is extracted from potatoes. "The cells of the root tubers of the potato plant contain starch grains (leucoplasts). To extract the starch, the potatoes are crushed; the starch grains are released from the destroyed cells. The starch is then washed out and dried to powder." This is quite different than grating and squeezing the potato through cheesecloth.

I wonder if it would be clearer and more accurate in this article to say: "separates some of the water from the potato solids" instead of "removes the starch". Or words to that effect?

Thanks. CBHA (talk) 00:00, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

History Paragraph Should be Removed
I believe that the "History" section of the article could be improved by completely deleting it. From my perspective, the paragraph is utter nonsense. To begin with, the idea of stating
 * "Acadians who chose to live out their exile in Boston..."

is fairly misleading. During "Le Grand Dérangement" Acadians didn't choose to go to Boston or leave Nova Scotia, they were put aboard ship at gunpoint. Half of them died as a direct result. Quoting from the article...
 * "This opportunity to meet and interact with other immigrant groups would :naturally encourage a sharing of cultural recipes..."

Refering to people who had lived for generations in Acadia when delivered to Boston as "immigrants" instead of as captives is, again,  misleading. And finally,
 * "When they returned, they found that their fertile land had been given to New :Englanders lured north by the promise of farmland."

"Given" is the wrong term, pirated is more to the point.

I understand that a food article is something that should be light hearted and apolitical, but please stick to the facts or say nothing at all. Le Grand Dérangement is nothing to gloss over. Pierre II Surette (talk) 21:16, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

History Paragraph is Terrible
I'm going to sidestep the language issue for a moment just to note that even content-wise it's terrible. It's a lot of supposition, a lot of maybes, with almost none of it contained in the citations given. The Vice citation doesn't really talk about its history and certainly not its origins. The Boston Globe citation contains a single paragraph about the land being poor.

That's it. Nothing about Massachusetts. Nothing about the Swiss. Nothing about Germans.

Just a lot of sentences without much backing them. — g026r (talk) 19:39, 4 July 2024 (UTC)