Puff pastry lid versus a sturdy butter pie crust - which is your favourite?

While Shepherd's and Fish pies may not officially deserve their names, some foodies feel that pies with a puff pastry top, rather than the full butter pastry encasing, are actually pies unworthy of the title.

Got beef with mash top pies? Despise floating puff pastry tops? Prefer it in a pot or on a plate?

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By Anna Pollitt. Images: Rex Features

The great pie debate