the.com/meat pie

means A hand-sized pastry shell filled with cooked minced or diced meat (and often gravy or vegetables), baked until golden and eaten hot or cold.

from Meat is Old English 'mete,' which originally meant food in general (the sense survives in 'sweetmeat' and 'meat and drink'), only later narrowing to flesh specifically. Pie is murkier: it surfaces in Middle English, and one long-standing guess ties it to the magpie — a bird famous for collecting miscellaneous odds and ends, much like a pie gathers miscellaneous fillings under one crust. It's a plausible story rather than a proven one, but either way, savory pies of meat wrapped in pastry go back to medieval Europe, originally as much a way to cook and preserve filling as to eat it — the crust was often a disposable 'coffyn,' not meant to be eaten at all.